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we have a problem now that AI is here it seems like anybody with a computer access and internet access can write a book but while some people think that writing with AI is just as simple as pushing a button it really isn't that simple and honestly most books turn out terrible if you do that but that's only
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if you don't understand the basics of what makes a good book as well as good prompting techniques in order to get the AI to write like a bestselling author and so in this video I'm going to show you how to write a good book using AI in
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[Music] 2025 if you're new here my name is Jason Hamilton I'm the nerdy novelist I've been a self-published author for over eight years now and three of those years I actually worked at kindlepreneur one of the largest resources to learn about self-publishing and writing and marketing your books I've written about
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20 titles to my name and I built this channel because I saw a lot of AI Bros out there talking about how to write a book with AI and it was very clear to me as an experienced author that none of them had ever written a book in their life so in this video I'm going to walk you through all of the steps to write a
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good book with AI both fiction and non-fiction because they actually follow a very similar process we're going to cover the tools that you're going to need we're going to talk about two different methods one for Discovery writers and one for outliners and I'll walk you through all of the steps in that process so let's start by talking
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about the tools that you would need to actually write a good book with AI my general recommendation for tools is to have one specialized tool that is specifically geared to write long form fiction or non-fiction and then complement that with one chatbot and I'll get into what those are in the
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second but they are the simplest interface and they're not as adaptable and all of that but sometimes having simple is better and so combining a more specialized tool with a chatbot I think is a really good idea now the most common chat Bots out there are chat gbt
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Claude and Gemini there are others as well but those are likely going to be the three that you want because they house the most power ful models you don't have to have all three you can just choose one but with the one that you choose I would go for the $20 tier in order to get a little bit more use
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out of the AI and to realize that you are making an investment in your author business and sometimes having a little money that you spending can be extremely motivating to actually use that money wisely and get writing my personal favorite out of the bunch is Claude but really both chat GPT and Gem and I have
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made some impressive strides lately that have upgraded their models significantly and I find them all three of them really to be sufficient the purpose of having a chatbot at your disposal is to have a catchall for everything that's not directly related to writing long form
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fiction you're going to find in your writing Journey that you're going to have a lot of use cases that just don't quite fit into a specialized tool the specialized tools can be amazing at helping you write the book but let's say you just wanted to brainstorm ideas or uh develop a character or brainstorm
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some World building ideas uh what whatever you can think of sometimes those things don't fit neatly into a specialized tool and so having a chatbot that's more versatile albeit simpler is a good idea to have for the specialized tools there are three that generally
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take the the top tier in the writing World there is PSE sudoite Raptor right and novel crafter PSE sudoite is good for fiction I wouldn't really use it for non-fiction and honestly it's not my favorite of the bunch but it does have a
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specialized large language model that is actually really good at the fiction writing process so I wouldn't discount it entirely I'll be sure to do a more detailed comparison later on then we have Raptor right the great thing about Raptor Rite is that it is free for the software you still have to pay through an API uh through open router in order
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to get your air written words but that is usually not a very expensive process and the great thing about Raptor right is that it's very simple people that are just starting out with AI might prefer Raptor write to start with because it is a very simple process it'll teach you the basics of writing with AI it might
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also be a better option for Discovery writers who don't want all of the bells and whistles they just kind of want to focus on the next part of their story and not have to worry about everything else and then there's novel crafter now novel crafter is my personal favorite of the bunch it's kind of the Adobe Photoshop of these specialized tools because it can do a huge amount of
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things not just for writing fiction or non-fiction I know people that are using it to write uh tabletop game campaigns for things like Dungeons and Dragons and of the bunch it's definitely the most versatile tool which is why I like it however it is a little bit more more complicated and takes a little bit more of a learning curve to get into it it
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does also have a small expense in addition to the AI words that you're going to be pulling in through an API just like Raptor Wright it also has a small monthly expense on top of that but it's usually it's not that expensive compared to other tools like pseudo write or even compared to the chat Bots which are all $20 a month generally
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speaking you're probably going to be spending less than $20 a month using novel crafter for demonstration purposes in this video I'm going to be using a combination of Novel crafter with chat GPT since chat gbt is the most well-known tool but keep in mind that you could do a similar process to what
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I'm going to be showing you with any of the chat Bots and with any of the specialized tools that I've mentioned so with that let's get to Method one on how to write a book with AI so this first method of writing is actually the simplest and one of the easiest to get started with so you might want to try it to get started for this method I'm only
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going to be using one tool that's novel crafter although you could use a chatbot for this as well but I find novel crafter makes this process relatively simple other tools particularly Raptor write are very suited for this mode of writing as well and so you could absolutely use those tools as well I'm just going to show it off for you here
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in novel crafter in novel crafter you want to go here to create a novel and just put in the title of your book here and your author pen name I'm just going to actually call this discovery writing demonstration and hit create novel and it puts you into the novel crafter
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interface here now this is not going to be a full tutorial on novel crafter I have other videos that you can check out that do exactly that but I am going to show you a few few things just a few tiny things to set up before you get started the first thing I would actually do is I would create a single character
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who's going to be your protagonist and I'll show you why this is important in a second but to do that over here we make sure we have codec selected which it is by default and select new entry character and we can name this character whatever we want I'm just going to call her Candace and we'll just say Candice
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is the protagonist she is a police detective in a small town in the Pacific Northwest and that's all I'm going to put in there right for now you could put a lot more information if you want but I
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really want to keep this as simple as possible so that's all I'm going to put in there right now just so it knows who this character Candace is and why she's important so we're going to just click out of that and go to this gear icon up here and once you've clicked on that you'll see these options at the top that
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say metadata writing collaboration and Export you want to select the one that says writing and we're going to select our point of view here so let's say we actually want this to be first person point of view from Candace's perspective we'd hit first person and then we'd select the character and this is why we created the character so we could select
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her here as the point of view character we'll also want to specify whether this should be in past tense or present tense those are usually the two tenses that you're going to be using in writing a novel past tense is the most common but just so you can kind of see what this looks like I'm going to select present
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tense just for fun and that's all you need to do so now we've selected the tense of the story and we've selected the point of view and this is why having a specialist tool can be really useful for you is it allows you to bake into your prompts things like this the tense and the point of view otherwise you
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would have to include that in your prompts if I were doing this in chat GPT I would have to specify every time I prompted it every time I've created a new chapter or something I'd have to specify this is in present tense this is the first point of view from this character's perspective and you just have to include that information all the time now I don't really need to because
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I've selected it here in the settings so while it's technically possible to do everything that I'm doing inside of a chat bot is just more work and that's why having a specialist tool really kind of Smooths out that process and makes it really easy to get going so now up here at the top we have the plan write chat
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and review and for this method of writing we don't need any of these except for right so we're going to go to the right and say add initial scene and all you have to do to get started and novel crafter is to do a forward slash and it will give you the option of a scene beat or continue writing or a codex Edition really the only one that I
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use regular Al is this one called scene beat and from here you can say Candice walks into the police office and slumps down in her chair someone can tell
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something is wrong and asks her what the matter is and she replies that coffee machine is broken okay so just a a standard like opening moment for this
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character and then you see this button here called generate Pros if we click on that it actually gives us a whole bunch of different prompts that we can use in fact I think by default there's only one here for this particular type of writing and that is general purpose all of these others that you see here I've created myself so before I actually go to
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writing this I'll show you a little bit of how this is done so down here in the bottom left there's a button called prompts and from here you can select the defaults all of these that say system are defaults they can't be changed but you'll see I have a lot more here besides the system prompts and that's
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because I like to change the prompts sometimes the general purpose prompt gives you options for all of these different models that you see here any of these can be used there are actually more models than this but these are certainly ones that you could start with and then also you can go here to instructions and this is the actual
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prompt that it's running and some of this is going to look a little bit overwhelming this is why novel crafter is such a powerful tools because it gives you a lot more creative freedom but it basically just gives information about the characters that we already put into this character here for Candace it
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pulls that in it gives it some style information it gives it information about the story so far if there is any which there isn't in our case this section looks at the previous words written and then this section here gives it the actual instructions so first of all it pulls in the scene POV which we
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specified and it says continue the story and write about 400 words for the following instructions and then it pulls in what we already wrote in the scene beat section and then it gives it a few more instructions and then runs the prompt so if I wanted to run that prompt I would just come here to generate Pros
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general purpose and then it would give me a list of models that I could choose from here we could select for instance 3.5 Sonet which I consider to be one of the better ones and hit go and it's created the first little bit of our story now remember this prompt is asking for only 400 words so if you wanted it
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to write a longer section based on what you put in there you could just modify that prompt in this case since it's the system prompt you would have to duplicate it and then modify that prompt and then use that one but I like this so I'm going to hit apply and this is the most important part of the entire
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writing process using this method first of all let's read a little bit here it says the fluorescent lights flicker as I drag my feet across the precinct floor making my way to my desk so already you can tell this is written in present tense it said flicker instead of flickered and it's in first person point of view my shoulders slump forward as I
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drop into my chair the worn leather squeaking in protest the stack of case files on my desk blurs together everything blurs together without my morning fuel officer Martinez glanced up from his computer screen his bushy eyebrows furrowing looking rough there detective world ending or something I
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let my forehead thk against the desk worse coffee machine's dead and actually I like some of the dialogue that we've gotten here no way the one in the break room yep won't even turn on but that thing's ancient been here longer than both of us combined so there there is actually some gems in here but this is
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the important thing to remember as we're going through this process is that we want to go through a validation process cuz if we were to just come on to the next beat uh we'd create another scene beat I would write out what happens and it would continue it would continue but this time it would actually look at what
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it's written previously and continue on from there and if we have imperfect text here or text that does not match the story as we want it to be it will continue off of imperfect background text and so we want to actually go through this and make sure it's all up
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to our standards uh both in terms of is it covering the story correctly as well as is the pros good enough for us like does it sound good so for instance I read this paragraph here the fluorescent lights flicker as I drag my feet across the precinct floor making my way to my
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desk my shoulders slump forward as I drop into my chair the worn leather squeaking and protest I could maybe enhance this a little bit to say nearly falling out of it as the force of my desent strains its suspension and then
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we could go to a new paragraph and say everything was old here I try to focus on the stack of case files on my desk but they all blur together everything blurs together without my morning fuel yeah I'm not sure I like this sentence I think you could actually just leave it
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off and a lot of working with AI is trimming it in places where it's not doing a good job or adding little bits of usually more character moments uh thoughts that they're going through deep point of view that kind of thing but assuming you've gone through all of this and you're happy with the results the
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next step is to write your next scene beat so we could say Martinez says he knows of a new coffee shop that just opened in a nearby town it's only a 10 minute drive instead of
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20 Candice likes this idea and decides to go visit she says she'll be back in 30 minutes and to tell the Chief if he
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asks okay so then we just go to general purpose and and use the same uh model again that we've been using Martinez perks up snapping his fingers oh wait I forgot to tell you new place just opened in Cedar Grove right off the highway Cedar Grove I left my hat that's what 10 minutes away if that next to the old
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hardware store and it's really adding in a lot of detail here that I didn't put in my prompt which I love some of that's not going to be what you're envisioning but this could be actually a good way to discover interesting things and that is the name of this method is this is the Discovery writing method this is how you
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actually go through and write a book piece by piece without doing any of the prep work or anything if you just want to get right into things you can let me now show you how to do this for non-fictions and we're going to start again instead of deleting it I'm going to put my own name in there Jason and
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I'm going to say Jason is the writer of this nonfiction book on its part Memoir and part selfimprovement book so I'm really only just establishing myself as the writer of the
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words that are going to be coming out of this and we're going to go back to the settings and just make sure that I'm listed here as the character we're going to put this in past tense now but leave it at first person because I am the actual person writing these words and so from here we're going to start a
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non-fiction book about food addiction which is something that I you know work with a little bit and so we'll just say something like talk about how I was lost in the Addiction eating myself to death talk about how it feels like I'm out of
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control and that nothing not even fullness can stop me from eating okay this is how I would start a non-fiction book is really get started into like the worst moment imaginable like talk about the problem and really Hammer home
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before I then talk about the solution so from here I would just go and select the same prompt or a different prompt that you may have created and I'll use 3.5 Sonet again I stared at the empty Pizza Box on my coffee table my stomach stretched and aching the grease stained cardboard mocked me a Silent Witness to another night of mindless consumption 3
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hours ago I'd promised myself I would only eat two slices now the whole pie was gone along with half a bag of chips and a pint of ice cream and it goes on so yeah so this is good from like a memoir point of view a good way to start a non-fiction book if we were to start a new chapter we could call this chapter
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the solution and let's say we wanted to write less from a memoir type of point of view and more more from like here are the actual solutions that we wanted to go with I could just put in a scene beat and say walk through the steps to overcoming food addiction which are and
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then I would put in bullet points get clear on what you are eating every day eat sugar or refined flour as these are the most triggering write down what you
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will eat the day before Etc and I could go on and on but U from here I'll just say generate pros and in this case we're not necessarily doing it from a memoir point of view we're giving it actual information okay so actually what it was giving me was still in the
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kind of narrative point of view so I had to modify my prompt here to make it so it's a little bit more information focused so now the prompt says now stop writing from a narrative Memoir point of view and talk to the reader and walk them through the steps to overcome food addiction which are 1 2 3 make sure to use headings for each speak directly to
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the reader and from here now I can go through and write these words and it'll be a little bit better all right it still gave me a little bit of an introduction here that was still in the narrative format I could easily validate this and edit that out but it does get to it here it says get clear on your
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daily food intake listen you can't fix what you don't acknowledge pull out your phone right now and write down everything you ate today everything those three M&M's from your co-worker desk write them down a handful of chips you grabbed while cooking include them and so forth you could also create a prompt that's specifically designed to write non-fiction I actually have a
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prompt like that that I've created it's basically a it's a copy of the general purpose system prompt that I've modified for non-fiction specifically so there's a lot of flexibility here you can definitely do non-fiction inside of Novel crafter novel crafter is really more of a tool for long form uh books or
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any kind of writing really in a long format but again this is the simple way to do it this is the way to go just you know one step at a time and writing it just by the seat of your pants and so let's talk now about the other way of doing this which is to plan everything out ahead of time using a method that I
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call the fractal technique so for this we're actually going to go to chat GPT and this is chat gpt's basic interface as you can tell there's a lot less going on in chat GPT than novel crafter and that's in part a good thing because it makes things really simple and easy some people will tell you not to use a chat
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Bots like this because they're almost too simple and easy and you lose a little bit of that flexibility and the control that you can have have I think that you should be taking a Best of Both Worlds approach which is why I recommend one chat bot and one specialized tool because sometimes you do want more
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fine-tune control over everything and sometimes you just need something simple that makes it quicker and easier to do and so I think having access to one chatbot and one specialized tool is the best way to go so here in chat GPT we're going to start doing this fractal technique which is to start small and to
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build from there I'm going to do this in two different chats one for fiction one for non-fiction but it's essentially the same process process so we'll start here by using this standard brainstorming prompt where I'm going to ask it for a mythical urban fantasy story and it's going to give me a bunch of ideas and by
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the way if you are interested in this prompt that I just used I have all of the prompts that I use regularly in a spreadsheet you can get that for free by going to the link down below and signing up for my email list you'll not only get my prompts but you'll get an outlining template that I have which I'll explain in a second but anyway we've got a whole
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bunch of ideas once again the validation process is important and you need to go through these ideas and carefully select the one that you want assuming you don't already have an idea for your book already which may be the case you might not need to do this step let's say we like this one right here a private investigator who can see the future must
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stop a prophecy from destroying New York but every clue reveals she might be the cause of the city's Doom that's actually not a bad beginner prompt for a story so we can go ahead and select that the next step of course is to populate this world a little bit you want to make sure we have the characters down that we're
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interested in the world building a lot of that stuff needs to be finalized before we can start on the outline now if you want to see what the AI would come up with you can just go with the outline step anyway but sometimes I like to say okay let's go with number one
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brainstorm three characters three important World building elements and the climax of the story I usually like to include the climax of the story because I want to know where the story is going and that will actually help the AI to build a better outline later
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because it already knows where the outline is going so with this little prompt you can go ahead and say okay here's our main character Cassidy Lane Eli crane detective Maria Voss giving us some World building elements here related to the story and it gives us the
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climax so once again you're going to want to go through and really validate this and make sure it's up to your storytelling standards some of this is going to be overly generic and not actually really interesting so you want to go through and check that so assuming you've edited all of this you're going to want to take the edited version and
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include it here and say here is my edited version and then move on to the next step but just for demonstration purposes I'm going to use this exactly as it gave it to me just keep in mind you're probably going to want to validate it further to make the quality even higher otherwise you're going to be left with a very poor quality book all
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right this next prompt is a very long one and the reason is because I'm going to give it a massive outline template I find the outline templates help to help it get structured although this stage is going to require quite a bit of validation so let me show you what I mean this is my 40 chapter plot module
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and this document that you're looking at right now is another one that you can get for free when you sign up for my email list so definitely go check that out below but I'm just going to take this entire outline template as you can see here it's very long it's for 40 chapters 41 actually and I'm going to say using the following outline template
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create a full outline for this book then I usually like to have something in there that says the summary for each chapter should have specific details rather than vague Illusions to what should happen write it
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as though you were going to hand it off to a ghost writer to write the first draft right and then I just put in the entire template that I just copied and it's actually done something that chaty
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PT does specifically which is to create a canvas where you can actually modify this a little bit more to your liking which is a useful feature so now we've got the outline for act one with the prologue being the opening image here the city of New York is shrouded in dark ominous clouds time fractures Ripple
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through the skyline like glass shards a shadowy figure Eli crane stands on a rooftop watching his buildings flicker between existence and non-existence he whispers only destruction can save us now the skyline collapses into chaos okay uh this sounds like more like the kind of thing that you would see in a dream sequence so maybe we would add
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that in we can put the chapter ends with Cassidy waking up from a nightmare right something like that and then the next chapter starts with the unusual day a grimy Brooklyn office Cassidy Lane a private investigator in her 30s with a haunted look reviews a case File while
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trying to ignore flashes of the future in her mind her Visions are chaotic and unclear and so forth and it goes through the entire thing now this is definitely something where you would want to validate this and as you can see for some reason the summary of each chapter got really small by the end of the thing
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and it didn't actually finish it so we could ask it please continue with Act 2 B and act 3 now if you wanted you could actually just go one chapter at a time I actually like to do this because I enjoy the outlining process the most and so I
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will usually write my own outlines and only consult AI if I am stuck on a particular chapter and I want to brainstorm ideas for what should happen just in the next chapter I'm not trying to do the whole chapter at once usually when you try to do the whole chapter at once it kind of messes a whole lot of things up so what I might do is I'll
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have a separate document and I'll try to get it to write the entire outline but then I'll just pick and choose the elements that I like the most then feed that back into the AI and say Here's what I've got for the outline so far can you fill in the gaps and then it does that and then I pick and choose from that which parts I like the most and so
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on there's a lot of different ways that you can go about it the point is we are developing our outline at this stage and from here you could stay inside a chat GPT for the rest of this but I would actually recomend commend that at this point or earlier potentially if you want
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uh we move over into novel crafter or Raptor or whatever tool you're using for the remaining section and so let's say this is our prologue right from here we can go to novel crafter and I'm going to show you a feature I didn't show you before which is the plan section and in the plan section we can say okay this is
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the prologue and this is the uh we'll say chapter one right and you keep on going for the full chapters that you've got there and now from chat GPT you can copy over what you've got here and put that summary in the prologue here grab
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what we've got for chapter one put that into chapter one and so now novel crafter is going to be able to look at this and understand what's going to happen broadly in the entire chapter another thing you might want to do at this point is put in your characters so for instance we have these characters that the AI came up with for Cassidy
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Lane so we would just come over here create a character named Cassidy Lane and put information that the AI gave us if you validated make sure to put anything you have in there as well I will often write these myself because there are specific things I want the AI to know I want it to know like what does
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she look like I want it to know what her dialogue and speech patterns are because those affect the way it writes but just for now for demonstration purpose we'll just use what it gave us and then we would go through and make more characters for these other characters that it invented here as well as maybe some of these World building elements
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for instance here if you select new entry you can create other things besides characters you've got location objects lore Etc so some of those World building elements might go into lore or into locations whatever the case may be the point is you just want to fill this out with all of this information now you
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have to be careful with this because a lot of authors can get stuck at this stage trying to make all of their elements perfect so that the AI knows everything it needs to know about their books the fact of the matter is you don't actually need the AI to know everything about your books all it needs to know is what happens next and that is
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something that you are ultimately responsible in in forming it it doesn't necessarily need to know all of your world building all of the time it just needs to know the small section that happens next so now that we filled out novel crafter the next part is to do similar to what we just did in the
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discovery writing phase you create a scene beat and then you write what it is should happen in the next section of the text now you might have no idea what should happen in the next scene and so you can go back to chat GPT here copy in the text of the first chapter and say
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please break this down into and you can give it a number I usually go between 12 and 20 so we'll say right in the middle we'll do 15 Steps for this scene to break it down into more specific details
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about what happens in the scene something along those lines there are a number of ways that you can structure that but then you just paste in the text for the outline and it's going through and actually giving me the 15-step breakdown of the scene and I'm not actually sure I like this establishing
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shot but we can maybe take both of these and just copy them into novel crafter so once again we are moving from something small to something a little bit bigger just to kind of Flesh things out one step at a time so this is what we call the scene beat stage some people have different names for it I think actually
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the word scene beat is maybe a little misleading but it's essentially just a more detailed summary of the scene and I'm only taking a few bits of it for this next stage although you could put all of the scene breakdown in there and just ask it to write a really long scene but I like to do it in smaller chunks
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let me show you how this works so we'll just use the general standard prompt that we have here and use the 3.5 Sonet like we've been doing before I'm not saying you have to do it that way but it's those are probably my favorite ways to go and it'll write the beginning of the scene and it's actually writing from my perspective again because I forgot to
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remove myself as a character so but it actually created some interesting Pros as a result says as I document these extraordinary events I must emphasize that what occurred in New York City on September 15th 2023 IED all conventional explanation from my vantage point at the observation deck of the Empire State Building I witnessed the transformation
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of our City's familiar Skyline that challenged the very foundations of reality not perfect but interesting because it's writing from the perspective of someone documenting it almost in a non-fiction perspective so that was a little happy accident there which you will find happens a lot with AI and it went through and wrote the
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whole scene and so the next step would be to take the next couple of Beats whether you write them yourself or whether you use what AI gave you and you continue on in the format until the chapter is complete once again you want to go through that validation process to make sure everything is up to Snuff you
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want to do this at the earlier brainstorming and outlining phases because if you don't do that then you're essentially building a book on a flawed foundation and you want to do it at the pros level too because otherwise it's going to sound a little bit like AI writing which to people like myself who have been working with AI for a long
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time is really easy to spot and so you want to make sure you add your own little human touch in there add some character moments make sure that everything everything looks good I also know people that will actually write a very rough draft of the story with just a little bit of dialogue a little bit of description but not a whole lot and they
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will give that to the AI and ask it to expand it with more description to improve the writing and that is often a good way to go as well but regardless of whatever tool or technique that you use the point is this does take a little bit more time than I think a lot of people think I think a lot of people think it's
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just you push a button and out pops a book but really that's not the case in order to do this right you have to be really thinking through all of the ideas you have to be validating the results it's still very much your vision too cuz I imagine most of you already have ideas of what you want to do and so going
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through this process with your own ideas rather than just a random idea pulled out of chat GPT like I did in this demonstration is going to make it even more like it's your baby right now I'm going to briefly walk you through the non-fiction process it's basically the same thing but a little bit different I
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already know the topic of this book it's going to be a memoir SL self-improvement book about struggles with food addiction and so I'm going to actually jump straight to the outlining phase and say I want to write a book about food addiction it would be part Memoir part
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selfhelp book please give me a list of possible chapter topics so instead of trying to outline this from a fiction perspective we're just asking for a list of topics that should be included in this book and in that sense it's a very
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easier process in a lot of ways and so it gives me a whole bunch of things Memoir Focus chapters okay I like that to kind of go through my own story I might even want to layer these so that I'm going alternating between a memoir Focus chapter and a self-help Focus chapter I've seen books written that way
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and then we have the self-help Focus chapters understanding food addiction identifying your triggers Etc and going through that and I could say okay this is really great or it might give me some ideas like oh actually we should have a chapter about this I might go through some of these chapters and say well that chapter actually does doesn't fit so once again you go through the validation
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process and then you break it down into the next step which is to instead of creating scene beats for a chapter we're creating a more detailed outline of a given chapter and so for instance let's say we wanted to flesh out this chapter right here I would say flesh out this
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chapter to include more specific information about what should be included in the chapter and so here we go so the chapter is about understanding food addiction what it is and how it affects the brain introduction to defining food addiction clarifying what the food addiction is explain that food
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addiction is characterized by compulsive consumption of certain foods types of foods involved Etc sugar salt fat processed carbohydrates yep that's all true now the validation process for non-fiction is slightly different in the sense that you're going to have to fact check everything that's the biggest
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thing that you're going to have to deal with when writing non-fiction make sure that everything you say is accurate now you could provide the facts yourself you can say here are the statistics about food addiction and include those in your prompts so that the AI gets it right that's a great way to go about it or you can use a tool like perplexity as a
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research tool to find all of that information that you need and the nice thing about perplexity is it will give you sources so you can fact check everything right there inside of its own ecosystem and I haven't talked about perplexity yet because I don't use it too often for writing types of work but it can be a fantastic research tool and
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I actually use it more than Google so for instance if I wanted to have a list of statistics about food addiction I could just ask it give me a detailed list of statistics about food addiction and then I hit go and it gives me a very detailed list looks up some sources now some of these sources might not be good
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sources so you do need to make sure you go through them but it gives me a bunch of of things here 14% of adults and 12% of children in the United States meet criteria for food addiction the global prevailance of ultra processed food addiction is estimated at 14% of adults and 15% of Youth one in eight Americans
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over 50 Etc risk factors women age 50 to 64 you know all of this stuff and so this this is great information and great research that I could use in my non-fiction book this is kind of essentially the same step as fleshing out your characters in your world building and fiction but in the case of
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non-fiction you're just assembling research information and perplexity is a great tool to do that so once you have all of this stuff you can go back to your chapter outlines make sure they are accurate make sure they have all the correct information and then you move on to writing the pros and that process is pretty much exactly the same as what
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I've shown you so far so I'm not going to go over it again the final step for both fiction and non-fiction is that you just continue this process until you have fleshed out the entire book it's still going to take a long time but the best thing about writing with AI is not necessarily the time it saves you it does save you some time but really the
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best thing about it is that it saves you headache because now you're not having to hold all of this information in your head you're not having to make tiny micro decisions about every single sentence that you write that's the one of the things that burned me out about writing is that there's so much that goes into it and so this allows you to
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kind of have a second brain to work with you to help you create that initial draft and allow you to edit it and validate it instead of coming up with it all yourself which can be a real minds saer and one of the reasons why I enjoy working with AI so much but that's not
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to say that you have to be using AI for every step of the process like I've shown you as I've already mentioned outlining is my favorite part so I tend to do that myself and this is where I think AI can shine I think you should use it to lift up your weaknesses and augment your strengths and when I mean
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by this is if you get joy out of writing the first draft of your book then by all means continue writing the first draft of your book but I think you will find that AI can help you at every step of the writing process because writing is not just putting down that first draft it is brainstorming it is character
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development it is writing it is revising it is more revising it is marketing there's all kinds of different pieces of the process and I'm sure at some point one of those parts of the process is something that is not enjoyable for you that's where you should should really Embrace AI to help you out and then
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spend more time doing the things that you actually love to do and that's a great way for AI to allow you to play to your own strengths and to help lift up your weaknesses now we've covered a lot in this video but one thing we didn't really cover is the basics of AI and just how AI works and if you want to know more about this I did do a video
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recently about that that you can check out so you'll have that foundational expertise that can really help your writing shine so go check that out and I will see you in the next video