ChatGPT "the art of the prompt" Chapter 6
ChatGPT "the art of the prompt" Chapter 6
Previously
Chapter 1 6 Ways to Use AI for Research, Creativity and Strategizing
Chapter 2 AI Has the Ability to Analyze Your Target Audience and Their Needs
Chapter 3 AI Can Spot Problems and Help You Deliver Solutions in Your Niche
Chapter 4 AI Is Capable of Brainstorming Creative Content Ideas for Your Audience
Chapter 5 AI Can Strategize Ways You Can Beat the Competition
Chapter 6
AI Can Help New Authors Find Their Footing with Fiction
AI is a language model. So it stands to reason that it can benefit you when it comes to all types of writing. Many online entrepreneurs have adopted self publishing in the fiction realm as a way to increase their earnings.
Using sites like Amazon’s Kindle, you can publish a fiction novel or even a short story and begin earning from it without having to spend money to do it up front. You can write it yourself, create your own cover, and Amazon will take a small portion of the earnings from every sale.
So how can AI help you? Well some people will tell you to just have it write an entire book for you. This may or may not be a wise decision, especially with how uncertain it is about whether or not Amazon and other platforms will allow AI-generated content for long.
You can use AI tools to help you with the research, creativity and strategic aspect of your fiction career, though. By using it for research, your stories will have a more authentic appeal to them – especially if you’re writing about a topic or place you’re unfamiliar with.
It might be something historical, medical, scientific, or even geographic or cultural. You can use AI for world-building purposes, too. It knows how to describe certain landscapes and regions with details you may not have considered.
For example, you can ask AI something like this: “I need to write about New York City for a clean romance fiction book, but I've never been there. Can you describe it to me with details that would help me in this genre?”
It would give you insight about Central Park and the iconic Bow Bridge, the energy of Times Square and theaters, Brooklyn Bridge and the pedestrian walkway as a backdrop for romantic moments, Greenwich Village’s charming neighborhood details, and more.
It even gives ideas for activities, such as a romantic walk along the High Line through the landscaped gardens, enjoying the public art installations and sitting on the park benches people watching.
AI can also assist you with character development. So if you wanted to know what a typical Iowa-born male character from a farm might be like, you could ask by prompting AI like this: “I need to write about a fictional 25 year-old male from an Iowa farm. Give me some background and belief information that would be suitable for this character.”
AI will create a fictional character and share his values, bond with his parents, appreciation for hard work, his educational pursuits, farming lifestyle and skills, what he takes pride in simple pleasures he enjoys, what motivates him and more.
AI can help with so much more – from plot and story structure to writing style and tone. It can help you come up with believable conflicts and resolutions, common dialogue and interactions, etc.
If you have questions about tropes in your genre, AI can answer them for you. It can even work as an editor for errors, style and tone if you want it to. Just ask it to proofread or give advice for bettering your work.
AI is not the monster some portray it to be. It might be abused by some people who want to take the lazy, hands-off approach to building a business. But for those who care to serve their audience in the best way possible, it’s just another tool to help you improve your work and deliver exactly what your readers need and want.
Watch out for the next (Bonus) chapter in this series:
Your Own Training Course
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That's another great lesson we all need to remember. Never use Al to write all of your content.
Thanks for another great share, Phil!
Myra 💜
Hi Phil, the more you put out about ChatGPT and the prompts- the more I become behind in catching up with you. I am so slow to understand how the prompts work. As you say, it's a tool and should be used responsibly! I've been doing some research on your other chapters. It's slow going.
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Another great, informative post.
Thank you for placing the descriptions next to each chapter no. Sure will save a lot 0f time; not finding out we opened the wrong one.
Phil, I"m going to enclose a URL that may be rather interesting. I haven't yet learned how to turn these into a hot link.
URL: adilo-replay
I may be inexperienced...but this presentation sue looked exciting to me.
Steve
Thanks so much, Steve. I tried adilo-replay. com but it was obviously not right.
Sorry, Phil. I'll try how to get those through.
Steve