Do This to Write a Novel in Days with ChatGPT (Beginner Tutorial)
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- Unleash your creativity with ChatGPT! Discover how to harness the power of AI to write your novel from scratch. In this video, I'll guide you through the process, including brainstorming, outlining, actually writing each chapter, and editing with ChatGPT.
After watching this video, you'll be able to write a great novel in ChatGPT that people will love!
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I'm writing my 1st book right now, and have watched this a dozen times already.
It's helping me so much!
Thank you for uploading this information. It will help many aspiring writers to get more out of their creative process.
Glad it was helpful!
hey, have you finished makin, your book? mind sharing with us?
Effin' awesome, man. "The Nerdy Novelist"; I love it. I love your style. Keep going at it. This video inspired me to go back to a fiction project I haven't touched in years. And now we got this awesome assistant to help us through it. The timing couldn't be better.
Awesome!
Watching this only makes me appreciate ai powered novels more. It's a mix of hard work, consistency, creativity and quality .
Great work, I appreciate the prompts and how to speak to the AI. I also like seeing your editing. I believe a lot of books lately may not be fleshed out or edited well and thus.. kinda suck.
just found your channel. going back to the first videos, been writing with gpt since around dec. discovery writing using the same process described in your more recent videos. picking up good tips for prompt usage in your videos. At this point i have enough writing material to take it over to Claude. I am enjoying your videos and find them interesting and align with my thought process so it's easy for me to incorporate your suggestions. thanks for taking the time and effort to put these together. good luck ahead!
You’re welcome!
I use AI to help me write it often helps the idea flow going to.
I should try this out currently i just write some original stuff on fictionpress and fanfics but id like to dive into the more “traditional writing space” i think theres definitely a big benefit in using ai to help writing i think its a mistake to solely rely on it. Though it can be quite useful for helping write scenes what ill often do is summarize a scene i want, maybe make some tweaks to it then ask for an expansion and more depth of a certain part of the scene. . Rinse and repeat i could spend hours barely getting anywhere in writing a single scene before. And once i start working with the ai and making tweaks my own ideas start flowing out.
Gotta say -- Really appreciate your thorough tutorials, here on GPT and on Midjourney! Great stuff --!
Glad you like them!
Thank you so much for this! I've been curious about using AI to help with the drudgery of writing the first draft so I can get to the fun of editing and refining more quickly. I really appreciate your taking the time to share your methods and give a good idea of what to expect.
You're welcome! Glad it's working for you.
I really like your channel, I will watch all of it, all of them contain knowledge that I cannot get in school, my country is very behind in technology and still prioritizes traditional jobs, I like your way of delivering the information. And my English is still poor, and I will continue to learn, pray that I can reach the best point.
That’s great! Best of luck in your goals.
You're like my novel bestie! I've watched this and so many of your other videos a zillion times. Thanks again for helping us utilize this resource. I have 3.5 and noticed it defaults to 4 for limited characters. Not sure if you're aware of that. So you could use the 4 for the complex brainstorming and 3.5 for the generic. For us folks on a budget lol!!
In a beginning prompt class I took one of the most powerful prompts was to instruct the AI to take on a persona, for example act as. Idk if that would help to generate better ideas earlier.
Yep, I've done this in subsequent videos (you're watching my first one ever :). Check out my video on the F.I.T.S. framework.
Thanks for a great over plus your template and list of prompts. Very helpful. As an aside, I love the content and documentation you guys at Kindelpreneur create, so well done on that as well!
That's great! Glad you like it.
I really enjoyed your video. I learned some new techniques of copy and pasting to a word outling to help build the story. I will work on that but so helpful!
Wonderful!
This is exactly what I was looking for!! THANK YOU!!!!
Glad I could help!
00:15 📚 The speaker has experience in writing with AI and has written multiple fantasy novels.
01:11 🤖 AI tools like Chat GPT are viewed as productivity aids, not replacements for human creativity in writing novels.
02:06 🔄 The tutorial will start using GPT 3.5, although GPT 4 is mentioned but limited in use.
03:00 📖 "High concept pitches" are concise, evocative descriptions of story ideas; they're crucial for novel development.
08:56 🤔 Initial pitch ideas may not always be unique or compelling; further iterations and tweaks are recommended.
10:27 💔 An intriguing pitch involves a world where the dead are brought back as slaves, and a necromancer must choose between love and fighting for undead rights.
11:50 📝 The speaker begins crafting a synopsis based on the chosen pitch, adding depth to characters and conflicts.
13:27 👁️ The synopsis introduces the setting and key characters, highlighting Lyra's unique abilities in necromancy.
14:49 💡 The plot thickens as Lyra confronts the injustice faced by the undead, drawing her into conflict with a secret movement.
20:58 ⚖️ The choice between saving Elric or all the enslaved becomes a pivotal decision, adding complexity to the plot.
26:23 🌟 The story ventures into a hidden city of the undead, unveiling the true origins of necromancy and the history of the enslaved.
26:38 📝 The speaker is discussing the process of outlining a novel using AI assistance.
28:46 📝 The speaker emphasizes the importance of the outlining stage in novel writing.
29:25 📝 The speaker mentions using the hero's journey as an outlining framework for a fantasy story.
30:26 📝 The speaker encounters some difficulties with the AI's response and considers starting a new session for better results.
32:41 📝 The speaker acknowledges that the AI is providing a structured outline based on the hero's journey but notes that it's not adding significant new elements to the story.
36:17 📝 The speaker decides to focus on creating a detailed outline for individual chapters rather than the entire novel.
38:51 📝 The speaker begins crafting a chapter outline using AI assistance, providing prompts and refining the output for each chapter.
44:45 📝 The speaker refines the chapter outline, adding more details and refining individual beats for the scene.
52:56 📝 The speaker concludes the chapter outline, preparing to move on to the next step of writing a scene.
54:24 📝 The speaker provides specific prompts for writing a scene, including genre, tone, point of view, tense, and key characters.
57:50 📝 The speaker gives an example of character description and emphasizes the importance of dialogue in scene creation.
59:45 📝 The character described is a master necromancer, characterized by a black coat and stoic demeanor.
01:00:17 📝 The speaker emphasizes the importance of adding a summary and conflict to each scene in a novel.
01:00:44 📝 The conflict in the scene arises from Lira's nervousness about reanimating a corpse for the first time, despite being highly skilled.
01:01:34 📝 The speaker recommends using the GPT-4 model for better results in generating scenes for a novel.
01:02:57 📝 The speaker advises refining AI-generated dialogue to enhance the quality of the novel.
01:05:05 📝 If the AI's first attempt doesn't meet expectations, the speaker suggests trying again with a tweaked prompt.
01:06:32 📝 The speaker demonstrates adding additional details to scenes generated by the AI to enhance the narrative.
How did you make this?
"When writing using AI tools, remember you are simply shovelling gravel, rock, stones and pebbles into a grinder, in order to acquire enough sand to shovel into a box so that later you can build castles."
I'm currently using GPT 4 to help me create a TCG. It's going well so far ... have no idea how to release it once the concepts done, though. Art will obviously be A.I. too.
Awesome!
I just started watching so I'm only a few minutes in but that Sherlock and Tarzan team up sounds AMAZING.
I’m looking forward to finishing it.
I have to completely disagree with your comment about AI not being able to complete a full book in our lifetime. The majority of researchers believe that within a decade we will have AGI, and in that time, with AGI, we will be able to write full books without human touch. GPT-5 might even be able to do it, or Claude 3. That’s within five years. This video is seven months old, I wonder if now you already think differently.
Really helpful. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Oh my god... thank you for this video!
You’re welcome!
Greetings from ancient Cheshire in Olde England. I’ve been observing you with increasing interest for some time now. If that sounds a little creepy, it’s you not me. 😂 Do you have a tip for how to ask Chatgpt, Claude2 or Pseudo for possible plausible storyline backgrounds of the characters or the story background itself to solve the barrier for the ‘stuck’ writer who has a solid beginning and ending who can’t progress to ‘the middle’! I’m enjoying your content and saved many videos for further research but my worst trait is analysis paralysis and destructive self sabotage of every good story I have by destroying it with logic. My logical mind questions every plot twist, every synopsis, story outline and even the beats. I’m one of those people who grinds to a halt with my modern day psychological thrillers because I have the beginning and the ending but can’t get to the middle because I question everything in between and struggle to find a plausible scenario that doesn’t defy logical reasoning. I need logic because my novels are modern day and we have legal photo IDs, Drivers licenses, medical insurance, hospital/dental records, DNA databases, police, etc etc it all gets in the way of a good story!
I loved the way you broke the process in to more manageable tasks ✨. Thank you!
You’re welcome!
WELL DONE PRESENTATION/TUTORIAL! THANKS!
Glad it was helpful!
I do similar like you dude but in the sci-fi genre, AI gives ridiculously good ideas, i have like 20 novels in line so far, half done 1 coz my ADHD kicks me in the teeth all the time:DD
Do you think it could help a person create a rough first draft of a memoir, putting the narrative in order from start to end? I have a solid outline and important scenes written, but I've yet to get the entire story plotted out and written start to finish. I am not looking for a publishable book, just the general idea with scenes in order and book divided into chapters and from there I would begin the rewriting process
Hey, I've been doing that to jot down my experience through creating a startup. I actually jot down what happens in meetings, the investors i meet, how i juggle beteen different responsibilities. When i'm down, i get ai to help put them in better words. Would still need to reread them in case chatgpt misunderstands me or skips important details. I'm already done 20 pages, 5 chapters. I realized my life feels so cool as ai arranges my words better making the secrets of tomorrow feel more intriguing. Ever since writing, i realize that I would definitely start appreciating more novels that use ai as a tool.
Chatbots are also a great way to check your "high concepts". If you ask the chatbot "have you ever heard of a story like this: ..." you may actually find out that there was a show called "Emergency!" in the 1970s that did exactly what you want to do.
Oh interesting!
Is there a way to get GPT-4 to vary/expand it's descriptive language? I find that it really likes "Chills ran down his/her spine" and "a cacophony of (insert noise)" and I can't seem to get it to think outside the box. I don't mind going in and rewriting the stuff by hand, it'd just be pretty cool if I could cut the workload a bit.
Also, would you suggest prompting the entire novel first, then going in and doing edits and tweaking? Or would you edit and tweak as you go along?
Sorry for the long comment, I'm working on my first book and have gone in sort of blind.
For your first question, I haven't tested this, but I would simply ask it to vary it's descriptive language. Sometimes it's that simple. If you see a particular phrase pop up now and again, then maybe ask it specifically not to reuse that.
FOr your second question, I recommend editing and tweaking as you go. I'd do one chapter at a time. The reason for that is because you will find a need to tweak your prompts for future chapters to make them cleaner. I've found that my first few chapters had far worse output than later chapters because I was constantly refining the prompts.
@@TheNerdyNovelist Thank you for your suggestions! I think you're right about approaching it on a more basic level. I may have been over-complicating the prompts, afraid gpt will forget things after 3 or so prompts into a thread.
I usually generate one story in one chat. Thank you for the video.
You’re welcome!
Super helpful. Thank you!
You’re welcome!
Thank you for sharing this with us. Watching the video an although I have played with GPT a while now, I am amazed how well GPT ist doing on helping you drafting this book. The process shows that ChatGPT alone can't write the whole the book just yet and will require a lot of the author's input. How do you ensure when publishing that the book isn't rejected because of the AI content?
If you’re not trying to spam anyone, Amazon won’t take it down for AI content. First of all, they can’t tell if it was AI generated or not. And second of all, Amazon is very pro AI.
Where can I see the full novel made by ai? Just want to see the quality of the work.
I’ll be publishing one very soon.
First of all, I'm diving deep in your content! Awesome Stuff, very instructional and is helping me to create my workflow. Really thanks for sharing your knowledge!
One thing: How do you proceed when you go the the next Chapter? Do you create a new chat? If so, what kind of info from the previous chapter you carry on to the next chapter?
I'm starting a research (with Chatgpt) to understand how to create non linear stories with Multiple narrative cores (like Game of Thrones, Foundation, Dune) and if you desire maybe I can share some results with you \o/
I start a new chat. If you’re using ChatGPT then I’d put in a brief summary of what happened, then give it the story beats for your current chapter. If you’re using Claude, I actually put the entire previous chapter into the prompt for writing the next chapter.
Just some advice. If you do this again go ahead and have your idea picked out before the video. You can show the process but then say I already got an idea from doing this off camera. It was very boring to watch you read through the ideas for 10 minutes trying to make a choice. I love the vids though! Thank you! 😊
Appreciate the advice. Thanks! I will probably have redo this video every six months or so given the advancements in AI.
I have a draft, characters and plotlines ready for a book i am working on but my writing skill isnt good so i want to ask how do i make a prompt to do the grunt work of writing to connect said plot points i give...?
Watch some of m other videos. I talk about this. Especially give Sudowrite a look.
very helpful and thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Re: Zodiac sign research. ChatGPT works great when used as an interactive encyclopedia. Therefore, I suspect this kind of research would be really easy.
Interesting.
I'm at the beginning about here 1:56
I can guess what you're gonna do
Are you just gonna do it in parts?
One part of a long chapter at a time?
also If you aren't gonna do that then if the method is different from that will it still work with gpt 3 point 5
Yes that’s mostly how it goes. Though it’s more complicated and the prompt is complex. And it’ll work in 3.5 but the results are significantly worse than 4
@@TheNerdyNovelist thanks for that.
It's a shame I would love to upgrade I don't have a job tho to earn money because I'm just 16 and to be honest I'm a bit clueless because I'm blind and don't actually know where to start because I want to do so many things like coding and everything but first I need income and that's hard for me because I've never done anything like that before.
My higher gole is to work in apple tech company.
I thought I would try using chat gpt to make something to earn money but I find that it can't do much eccept for an over view which doesn't work for me because I need good writing, I dOught about a scripting business and help produce people's videos for them if it is a documentary type video.
I want that do it but I don't to use my voice but I think I might just, I tried one of the best tts softwares but they over charged me and I did get a refund but then I really felt very disappointed about it because I really needed that for my other youtube channel which focuses on my religion, now I'm really confused as to what to do and I thought that well at least I have the refund.
Afew month later tho that same amount I got refund was taken away and apparently my refund dispute was actually ineligible and that was just terible because they really did charge me quite a lot which they shouldn't have.
I am not telling you because I want you to bother but I am just explaining to you something that maybe you could give me some tips with chat gpt 3 please.
I am very greatful that you replied in the first place
thank you for that.
I don't know if you like or have apple products or follow apple but even if you don't, apple are releacing a speech feature called personal voice and the way it works is you record 15 mins of your voice saying various frases then it takes that and develops a copy of it.
you can use it to say anything you want using text then it will talk out what you typed in your voice or the voice you recorded.
I think this is the sollution maybe God sent it for me
haha
I do have one problem with it and that is that I have to wait til the next update comes out Ios 17 in september and that is a while away so what do I do in the mean time.
Retorical question
I really appreciate you replying if you do read this thanks for reading my woffle and sorry about any of the spelling errors.
Followed this step by step, and it turned out really fun and a great story! I used ChatGPT 4 from the beginning and the outline turned out very nice and useful. Had to adjust a little, gpt wanted to add to much softness to the story, so had to ask it to go more brutal and dystopian..
and I used the same chat for every step, think it was an advantage for the story to be consistent.
Great! Yeah using the same chat can make it more consistent, but it can often be a problem if it gets derailed. It’s sometimes easier to start over, feed it everything you’ve established so far, and start fresh.
@@TheNerdyNovelist I keep it under control and ask it to rewrite if it tries to do anything else 😁😄
Can you put the prompt templates you used in the description?
I wrote them down in this blog post: nerdynovelist.com/write-a-novel-with-chatgpt/
@@TheNerdyNovelist ahh great! thank you.
Its coming I say within 6 Months-2 years GPT4.5-GPT5 will be able to handle over 100k-500k+ words it will be just a prompt to book
I agree it’s coming soon. It’ll still require guidance though. Because if something isn’t in your prompting, it won’t be in the output. Garbage in garbage out.
@@TheNerdyNovelist Well... it's a bit depressing, in a way. With no skills' bar for entry, readers will be inundated with books to read that will all look like one another. In the end, the only authors who will be able to livre from their craft, will be those able to heavily invest in marketing. That's a sad world we will live in.
Well, OpenAI clearly stated that there won't be a ChatGPT5 for years to come. I work in Data Science myself, LLM have reached peak maturity already. For technical reasons, and the very nature of LLM architecture and how AI works, it's perfectly understandable. And writing full story will only be possible by piling more and more inconsistencies the longer it the story is. Hallucination is not a bug for this model, it is in their fundamental nature.
@@LeokardDaudescor this is already the state of things, AI will help the greats as well
This video is fantastic. I finally get something out of that chat.
Thank you!
@@TheNerdyNovelist I am using the free version. Never going to pay for something monthly. But yeah the free version is sometimes a struggle. That said even you don't like ai bots ideas, it it, still making you think how you should do it and before you know it you already writing again. I see the free ai bot as the neighbour who you sometimes during coffee asks for ideas. Most of the ideas are useless but it keeps you thinking about your book and story.
@@TheNerdyNovelist Do you do book agent work too? Can people hire you for the whole traject? Like proof reading and discussing and helping to get it on Amazon etc?
You’re reading out the results wrongly: change to the ‘gravelly, growly movie trailer voice’ and they’ll either sound epic or ridiculous (but epically so). But gargle frequently with warm water to protect your throat 😉
Lol. Noted.
is chatgpt4 only on the paid version?
Correct
Where are the Ai models that allow us to write NSFW writing? I write in the horror genre. It keeps putting my writing samples saying that it's too violent and won't write for that
You can do some of this with Sudowrite.
Same 🥲 my main character is anti hero thug who kills people
@@squirlis1189 might have to go with PrivateGPT at this point.
"That sounds familiar" lol. ChatGPT just pitched you How to Train Your Dragon
Lol, yep
What is the chance of a book being successful without witches, dwarves, fairies, a teen aged girl in assassin school, vampires, werewolves, lost kingdoms or a dominating romance? My novel has none of that. Also, no enchanted artifacts either.
There’s usually a market for most things you would want to write. You’d just have to dig in some cases.
I do not think there will be a big market for books compiled by AI. I would not read this for free. You would have to pay me to read this.
when gpt stops just type proceed or continue
Yep
Wish there was a more concise source of this information
What would you like to see?
Since AI is available to everyone, AI novels will oversaturate the market and eventually become valueless commodities. This in turn will increase the value of great original human-made novels by making them more rare in the marketplace, especially as writers dull their skills by becoming lazier and more reliant on AI.
I agree that the market will be saturated with bad books (though it already is) but I don’t agree that it will be purely human-made books that rise to the top. The ones that rise to the top will be QUALITY books that people want to read. When done right, AI frees authors to create even BETTER books by giving them capabilities that they didn’t have previously. When you don’t have to spend as much time on any given part of the writing process, you’re free to spend more time on the parts that you love. You’re free to spend more time on the polish. So we will begin to see more AI-assisted books becoming super popular because the authors had the time to make them super awesome. It’s a different form of standing on the shoulders of giants. But in this case, we’re standing on the shoulders of AI.
This is only the next step in the rise of the machines, which began with those insidious devices called “typewriters”. All real books are written with fountain pens!
You won't know which are which.
The pen and paper have been available since millennia, and so many wrote, out of them many got recognised, yet very few made history. We can expect the same with ChatGPT too. Creativity will never go valueless, but instruments will. ❤
@@TheNerdyNovelist I think my original post might be misunderstood and need some further clarification. For the sake of brevity, I gave the core of my argument in just a few words in my original post, but I don't think you and I are saying largely different things. Firstly, when I mentioned "great original human-made books", I was not arguing for some sort of human purism when it comes to the writing process or abstinence from using AI entirely. My argument is against AI dependency, which -- because of how powerful the technology is -- will certainly become an issue in the near future. AI is here, and it's not going anywhere. AI will certainly be a tool that helps writers in many ways. As such, "AI-assisted" writing will most likely become the new norm. That all being said though, every writer's relationship with this "AI-assistance" will be different. And, because of how powerful AI is, in some of these relationships, the "assistant" will be the human, not the AI. This is what I'm referring to by "AI novels". And there will be a lot of those in the near future.
Not in our life time? 😂😂 by the end of the year you will be able to push a button and have a whole book series lol
Yes but will it be the book series YOU want.
@@TheNerdyNovelist it will be better
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