5 Secrets To Writing Books With GPT-4

Have you ever dreamed of writing a book but felt a little overwhelmed by the idea of writing an entire book? I know I did. But with the advent of apps like ChatGPT, it has become easier than ever to write an entire book in no time. And I would know because I wrote an entire ebook by myself with the help of ChatGPT, without any previous writing experience. And today I will show you how you can do it too. We'll explore book related capabilities of ChatGPT, like researching or writing text, that is as long as you want it to be. What? That's right, you heard me. Infinite length is possible. You just need to change your approach. But that's not all. ChatGPT can also help you rewrite text and get you from draft to polished result in no time. And last but not least, I will be answering the question. Let me ask you a question, Igor. Did you use AI to write your book? And not just that, I will also show you my exact process. So if you want to learn how to write an ebook on any topic from a guy that successfully did it, this is the video for you. All I ask for you is to hit that like button and subscribe. With that being said, let's talk ebooks. So like you. If so, before you use this to start writing, you should probably know a little bit about topic. So here's a prompt that you might already know, but I'll show you a new twist to it. Let's say we're writing a book about the printing press, and here we'll simply summarize the Wikipedia article. All right, and you're going to run into these error messages because the text is too long. This is also a problem in GPT4 for the browser. Once the API folder releases and you take that route, you will be able to feed it more text. But for now we're stuck with the same length limitations for both GPT 3.5 and GPT 4. So the simplest workaround here is simply copying a part of the text. So summarizing that and then rerunning the prompt for the second half of the text. Copy, paste, copy, paste. Now we have two summaries, but now I want to show you one of the most basic, but also one of my favorite prompts. Now summarize all the summaries you created above in a bullet point list. And this is just the best. So consumable. And you might be asking yourself why I didn't ask it for a bullet point list right away. And that is because with bullet point list it makes it a little shorter and I wanted to go into a little more detail here. So once I create the bullet point list, it has more details to gather information from. And what we'll be doing here today is we'll keep working inside of this thread because as you might know, chatgpt remembers the previous parts of the conversation. So If I ran 20 more summaries in here, it would remember and it would help us in our next prompt, which is all about achieving infinite length. But before that, let me show how to get even more information for your ebook in no time. 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But with all that being said, let's now have a look at how to achieve infinite length and in your outputs. Now I know you're familiar with this problem because everyone runs into it. Because when I go in here and say write me a 30,000 word book. On the printing press, it will simply stop at chapter four. And while you can follow up with keep going, you will never achieve 30,000 words like this. Look, if I copy the entire text it wrote and posted into word, that's 1200 words. So here's how to get around it. Instead of saying write me a 30,000 word book, we'll say write me an outline for a 30,000 word book. There you go, that's a solid outline right there. For these outlines, I found GPT4 to be slightly better as the numbering is more consistent. In ChatGPT, you sometimes have to follow up with now number these bullet points. No big deal, really just something to be aware of. And what you can do now is first of all, you can edit these points by simply saying replace 7D with my new chapter title. And as you can see, 7D printing and the growth of global commerce is now printing and economies of scale. Exactly what I asked it for. And once I'm happy with the outline here, all I need to do is go through and say write me one A. Just make sure to use the same numbering that it used in the outline. And all I need to do is hit enter and it's writing my introduction. Next up I'll say write me one B. And you can already see where this is going. If I open up a word document here, I can simply copy paste my different chapters with the written out text in here and I can start piecing together my book like this. And you can always follow up with try again, but make it twice as long if this text was not long enough for you. And there you go. With these techniques, you should be able to write books in whatever length you desire. So let's just copy the outline prompt and go into the research threads that we looked at. At the beginning of the video, it summarized the Wikipedia article. Now you simply add a new part to the prompt which says including the summaries that you created above. And you're going to get different outlines here depending on what research you did above. Now considering this was Wikipedia, it's going to be pretty generic and similar to what it would have come up with anyway. But I think you see my point here. If you first summarize 10 articles from your very own blog and then write an ebook outline, considering those articles, your results will be way more custom than if you simply ask it for outline without feeding it any data before. And again, if it gets stuck, you can always say continue or keep going. So look, with all this relatively basic writing, I found GPT4 to perform very similar to GPT 3.5, as the prompts we are using here are well crafted. If you're just freestyling your prompts, you might find GPT4 to be better regularly, but generally speaking, especially if you're copying the prompts from this video's description, in this use case, the outputs of the two models are going to be very similar. Where GPT4 really shines is long complex prompts where you really push it to its limits. But with all that being said, if you have access to GPT4 and it works at the moment in the case of most writing tasks, except for maybe writing fantasy, but that's a topic for a different video, there is no real reason to use GPT 3.5. I personally would use it for every prompt in this video, but again, I think it's important to highlight where the differences lie and to highlight the prompts where it really matters and the ones where it really doesn't. Okay, now let's talk about the workflow I used for my ebook. So if you're not familiar, in late December I came out with my ChatGPT cheat sheet which is essentially not a typical ebook. It's over 100 ChatGPT prompt formulas with 400 use cases for them, so the core of the book is more like a cheat sheet than an ebook, hence the name. And that part can't really be generated with ChatGPT as you first need to find the use cases in order to create the formula from them. And yes, as I showed you in a recent video, you can then easily go from the formula to the examples. But finding the best prompts and the variations of them that you like to use is really just a lot of trial and error. But let's quickly talk about the introduction of the book which is very ebook like. Here's what I did for that part as a non writer first I went ahead and I drafted out my own ideas and just to make things easier on myself, I usually write in a way simpler language than I would even talk. So for the sake of this example, let's say I was writing the two pages that focus on how to apply your own style to ChatGPT. And my first step is always just brain dumping in a very simplified form into a notes app like notion. But for this quick demo we'll just do it right here. So this is what I came up with. Again, very simplified to see. Not a final result, just a first draft. ChatGPT is great, but by default the style is pretty generic. In many cases you will want to apply your own style. So how do we teach it? Here is my workflow. So now it's time to develop this, rewrite this in a friendly and conversational style while including every piece of information. And as per usual, you'll find all the prompt formulas in the description below. By the way, we did this for all previous videos too. It's just too convenient. So if you run this, it's actually going to write a proper text instead of just this bullet point type brain dump. And here's my pro tip when it comes to styles. After using this for every single day since three months, here's three amazing styles to get you started. Alright? And each one of these achieves something very different. So as you can see by this example, Bukowski has this very real tone. His style cuts for all the BS and talks right to your soul. If you use Jimmy Kimmel, it's gonna be very conversational, lighthearted, commercial and something that will appeal to a very wide audience. If you say the style of Jorgen, it's just gonna be very down to earth and human. When applying styles to text like this, it really doesn't matter if you're using GPT 3.5 or GPT 4. All right, let's move on. But for me personally, I always like to get the conversational style and then I take the rewritten thing in the style that I like and I post it into something like notion. And what I do for text that I really care about is I take some of these other versions and I post them in here too. And here comes the last part of my workflow and you might not believe it, but I actually go through and then I write it myself based on these different outputs. So maybe starting with well, well, well is not the right thing for my ebook, right? But I really like let's talk about ChatGPT. So I take that little part and then add my own little twist to it. And right there, after two minutes of extra work, I came up with a paragraph that I would call my very own. And again, I always stated that I use AI to help myself, but it's never the final output. I don't just copy paste this stuff, I use it as the middle part that writes out all the text and does the heavy lifting. Then I start editing and writing myself. And that's how I wrote slash, generated the first few chapters of my ebook. Same process for the weekly newsletter by the way. Although now I started involving other people to help me co write so now it's not just me plus ChatGPT, but one more brain that looks over the whole thing and makes it even better. But what all these cases have in common is that you need the right prompts to work with ChatGPT. And as you might know, that's what this channel is all about. But I have a big announcement to make right here for the very first time, my very own ChatGPT course. And I could not be more excited about this. I've been working on this for over two months now and I'm aiming to make this the best resource on ChatGPT on all of the Internet. Seriously. Because if you enjoyed this video, that course is going to be the same thing, just 50 times more content and all of it in a structured way that holds your hand from zero to advanced prompt Engineer. But if you want even more writing tips like this for free right now, then check out this video that teaches you some advanced techniques to writing with ChatGPT. Pretty much anybody can find a new technique in this vid and I'll see you soon.