How Useful is ChatGPT for Outlining a Novel?

Рет қаралды 378

Күн бұрын

Very useful! You can outline a novel in less than 1 hour. I'll show you how to outline a novel with ChatGPT. I'll give you the prompts. And you'll be amazed how fast you can create an outline.
This is the story of how I accidentally outlined a novel is less than an hour, and includes step-by-step directions including prompts you can use to outline your own novel using ChatGPT or other large language models.
Artificial intelligence can significantly enhance your writing process. By leveraging ChatGPT, you can streamline the initial stages of novel creation, making it easier to focus on crafting a compelling story. AI can help you brainstorm plot ideas, develop complex characters, and structure your narrative more efficiently.
The Prompts:
Define ChatGPT Behavior:
Respond as a writing coach, helping me to write the best novel I can. Ask follow-up questions. Ask for clarification or more information if prompt is vague.
Create immersive world with vivid, extremely-detailed descriptions.
Be very specific & precise in descriptions.
Develop scenes with depth, unfolding them logically in a detailed manner.
Start scenes 'in media res' & avoid info dumps.
Write realistic dialogues in casual language, true to character personalities
Today we will develop characters, inventing a setting, developing relationships and conflicts, and finally creating a novel outline.
Ask for Setting Ideas:
Imagine a vivid, interesting and unique world in a far future science fiction setting. This is a place of wonder with futuristic technologies and a society that has evolved far beyond our own. This setting should be distinct from those seen in popular fiction and franchises, with a gritty realism and epic scale. Provide three 1-page descriptions of different settings and I will pick one for our story.
Ask for Character Ideas:
Write 5 short, 1-paragraph character descriptions. These descriptions should be of random people one would see in a crowded science fiction city. Include a sentence or two describing their environment which can be anyplace in the city or the nearby spaceport. Each character should be unique, with a distinct background, personality and goal.
Expand Character Ideas:
Given these characters, and the setting I have chosen, expand on each of them suggesting, names, occupations, roles, beliefs, goals, where they live and what they are doing here.
Brainstorm Character Relationships:
For the characters we discussed and the setting I have chosen, imagine the relationships between these characters, and the conflicts that will arise given their competing goals and beliefs.
Find Out What Outline Types The AI is Familiar With:
List 5 different outline types you are familiar with, with a brief description of each, including the genres and kinds of story where this outline is popular. Provide responses in a table format and ask me to pick one.
Pick one (in this example I'd picked Snowflake Method, change this to they type you want):
Let's go with the snowflake method. Given these characters, their goals and conflicts, the setting I have chosen, the story question I have chosen, and the plot outline type I have chosen, write a detailed beat-by-beat novel-length outline of this story.
00:00 Introduction
00:35 How I Did This, aka The Happy Accident
08:23 The Outline, aka What ChatGPT Did
12:14 Assessment: How Well Did This Work? Is It Worth Trying?
19:19 How to Outline a Novel Using ChatGPT
25:47 Conclusions
#NovelWriting #AIWritingTools #ChatGPTforWriters #WritingTips #CreativeWriting #AIinWriting #OutlineYourNovel #ChatGPT #OvercomeWritersBlock #WritingProcess #TechInWriting

Пікірлер: 17

@sarahalbert6833 Ай бұрын

That’s so funny 😆 I’m definitely going to try that one!

@The3dge Ай бұрын

You should!

@sarahalbert6833 Ай бұрын

I don’t know how you come up with this stuff! I use Microsoft copilot and if I give it some prompts it churns out some ridiculously , melodramatic, generic crap. Then when I tweak it and give it something more specific it goes way off track! I don’t know what I’m doing wrong 😂

@The3dge Ай бұрын

AI can be tricky like that. It can make things easy, or it an give you a lot of extra work. I don’t know CoPilot, but with ChatGPT you can preload it with information about who you are, what you’re trying to do, and how you want it to respond. I once told it to address me as “My Lord” and to only respond in Iambic pentameter-and it did. It was one of the funniest conversations I’ve ever had.

@familycorvette Ай бұрын

Well, given the fact that every single Big Five publisher requires you to attest in your contract that AI played no role in the creation of your book, I would say ZERO USEFUL.

@The3dge Ай бұрын

That’s an interesting perspective, thanks for sharing. I’m trying not to read too much into your comment, but it sounds like you make creative decisions based on fear and misinformation rather than what is best for you and your readers.

@familycorvette Ай бұрын

@@The3dge No, I base this decision on fact. I have an acquaintance I see regularly at an annual writer conference who is the contract specialist for a large literary agency. Signing a contract that says you used no AI when you did is as reckless as plagiarizing your book. Maybe you won't get caught, but if you do, your career is over.

@anthraxcrab2222 Ай бұрын

@@familycorvetteCan’t you just not tell them? Like they would notice if you promped ChatGPT “write me a fantasy novel 500 pages” cuz it would be garbage. But if you said “give me three magic system ideas” or “here’s a description of my setting, give me a main character” How could that possibly be discovered

@familycorvette Ай бұрын

@@anthraxcrab2222 If you life plan is to lie your way to success, good luck to you. You must crave having people think you're a writer more than you crave being a writer.

@The3dge Ай бұрын

@familycorvette -- I get where you're coming from. I'm just not afraid of a publisher questioning my choice of tools, so I use AI where it helps my process. My work gets judged on its own merits, not which brand of typewriter I used to make it. All the information I've seen indicates publishers are flocking to AI for art, layouts and marketing while trying to protect the IP of their properties by preventing it from being used to train AI models, and if they have concerns about plagiarism it makes sense for them to do extra vetting. But again, fear of a "what if" or "what about" isn't going to change how I write.