How to Write a Book with AI in 2024 (2 Best Methods)

Summary

Ce script vidéo explique comment utiliser l'IA en 2024 pour écrire des livres de fiction ou non-fiction. Il recommande d'utiliser l'IA pour les étapes du processus d'écriture que vous aimez le moins, comme la recherche ou le développement de personnages. Il décrit deux méthodes pour générer le texte : une étape à la fois, en éditant au fur et à mesure, ou en générant des chapitres entiers avec des « super invites ». Il explique que l'IA est un outil de productivité pour aider les auteurs à exceller, pas pour les remplacer. Il recommande d'utiliser l'IA pour surmonter le syndrome de la page blanche ou la fatigue. En fin de compte, combiner sa créativité avec l'IA peut faire de vous un meilleur conteur.

Takeaways

• 😀 L'IA peut aider à chaque étape du processus d'écriture, mais ne remplacera pas les auteurs
• 👨‍💻 Utilisez l'IA pour les tâches que vous aimez le moins afin de maximiser votre plaisir créatif
• 📝 La technique fractale est efficace pour générer des idées et développer votre intrigue
• 🔎 L'IA est très utile pour la recherche, en particulier pour la fiction historique
• 🤖 Modifiez et validez toujours le texte généré par l'IA avant de l'utiliser
• ✍️ Écrivez étape par étape et éditez au fur et à mesure pour un meilleur contrôle
• 🖥️ Les "super prompts" permettent de générer des chapitres entiers, mais demandent plus de travail
• 💡 L'IA aide à surmonter le syndrome d'épuisement professionnel et les blocages
• 📈 Pour les articles SEO, créez vos propres plans puis faites générer le texte
• ⏩ L'IA accélère l'écriture mais n'économise pas nécessairement du temps

Q & A

Quel est le but principal de cette vidéo ?

Le but principal est d'expliquer comment écrire un livre à l'aide de l'intelligence artificielle en 2024, en détaillant les étapes et les outils.

Quels sont les deux meilleurs moyens proposés pour écrire le texte avec l'IA ?

Les deux meilleures méthodes sont : écrire une section à la time en éditant au fur et à mesure, ou écrire des chapitres entiers en une seule fois avec des « super prompts ».

L'IA peut-elle vraiment remplacer les auteurs ?

Non, l'IA est présentée comme un outil de productivité pour aider les auteurs, et non pour les remplacer.

Quelles sont les principales étapes du processus d'écriture ?

Les principales étapes sont : la réflexion, le brainstorming, la création de plan, le développement des personnages, les recherches, les voyages, la rédaction, et les différents types de révision et d'édition.

Pourquoi l'auteur a-t-il fait une deuxième version de cette vidéo ?

Parce que l'IA évolue rapidement et qu'il fallait mettre à jour les informations concernant les nouveaux modèles et outils disponibles depuis la première version.

Comment l'IA peut-elle aider à la recherche pour une fiction historique ?

L'IA peut grandement aider à faire des recherches historiques approfondies qui serviront à donner plus d'authenticité et de crédibilité à une fiction historique.

Qu'est-ce que la « technique fractale » recommandée ?

C'est une technique qui consiste à partir d'une petite idée, à l'étendre en quelque chose de plus grand, puis à étendre cela en quelque chose de plus grand, et ainsi de suite jusqu'à avoir un manuscrit complet.

Pourquoi l'auteur a-t-il connu un burn-out ?

À cause d'une sévère période de surmenage. L'IA l'a aidé à surmonter ses résistances et blocages pour se remettre à l'écriture.

Quel a été le résultat de la grève des scénaristes en 2023 ?

Un accord stipulant que les studios n'allaient pas remplacer les auteurs par l'IA, et que le pouvoir d'utiliser l'IA serait entre les mains des auteurs eux-mêmes.

Pourquoi l'auteur pense-t-il que l'IA est un « économiseur d'esprit » ?

Parce qu'elle peut grandement aider à maximiser la créativité et le plaisir créatif dans l'écriture, tout en facilitant le processus pour éviter l'épuisement.

Outlines

00:00

😊 Introduction à l'utilisation de l'IA pour écrire des livres

Le narrateur explique qu'écrire un livre avec l'IA n'est pas aussi simple que certains le prétendent. Il présente les étapes du processus d'écriture et suggère d'utiliser l'IA pour les tâches que vous aimez le moins. Il promet de montrer comment utiliser l'IA à chaque étape.

05:02

😩 Problème : le texte de l'IA est trop générique

Le narrateur donne un exemple de texte généré par l'IA qui manque de créativité. Il suggère des façons d'améliorer le texte, comme demander à l'IA des idées créatives ou éditer vous-même le texte.

10:03

🤔 Réflexion : faut-il utiliser l'IA pour les livres de non-fiction ?

Le narrateur explique que la technique fractale fonctionne aussi pour les livres de non-fiction. Il insiste qu'il faut vérifier l'exactitude des infos. L'IA peut suggérer des idées de chapitres puis les résumer, mais l'auteur doit valider et choisir les bons chapitres.

15:04

✍️ Deux méthodes pour générer le texte final

Le narrateur présente deux méthodes pour générer le texte final d'un livre avec l'IA : 1) Étape par étape en éditant au fur et à mesure 2) Générer des chapitres entiers d'un coup avec des "super prompts". Il explique les avantages et inconvénients de chaque méthode.

20:05

🤷‍♂️ Pourquoi utiliser l'IA pour écrire ?

En conclusion, le narrateur explique que l'IA l'a aidé à surmonter un blocage d'écriture. Elle peut aider à chaque étape du processus d'écriture. Les auteurs gardent le contrôle de l'IA plutôt que les studios. L'IA est un outil de productivité pour les auteurs, pas un remplaçant.

Keywords

💡écriture

L'écriture fait référence au processus de création d'un livre ou d'un texte. Dans la vidéo, il est expliqué que l'écriture n'est pas une simple tâche, mais plutôt un processus à multiples étapes comme la réflexion, le brainstorming, la rédaction, etc. L'IA peut aider à différentes étapes de ce processus.

💡productivité

L'IA est présentée comme un outil de productivité pour aider les auteurs, pas pour les remplacer. Elle permet d'accélérer certaines tâches ingrates et de maximiser le plaisir créatif de l'écriture.

💡résistance

L'IA peut aider à surmonter des résistances et du blocage que rencontrent certains auteurs, comme la procrastination ou le syndrome de la page blanche.

💡recherche

L'IA est très utile pour faire des recherches, par exemple pour une fiction historique. Elle permet d'obtenir rapidement beaucoup d'informations contextuelles.

💡super prompt

Technique avancée de prompting permettant de générer jusqu'à 30 000 mots en une seule fois avec le modèle Claude. Utile pour générer des chapitres ou des articles complets.

💡fractal

Technique de génération de contenu par expansions successives d'une idée de départ. Permet de construire un manuscrit étape par étape.

💡édition

L'édition du texte généré par l'IA est cruciale. Cela implique de relire, corriger, peaufiner et valider la qualité du contenu.

💡outil

L'IA est présentée comme un outil parmi d'autres à la disposition des auteurs, et non comme une fin en soi. Elle ne remplace pas la créativité et l'expertise humaines.

💡chapitres

L'IA peut générer des propositions de chapitres et leur contenu, que l'auteur choisit ensuite d'utiliser et d'éditer ou non.

💡productivité

L'IA agit comme un amplificateur de productivité plutôt que comme un sauveur de temps. Son rôle est d'aider à produire plus et mieux, pas forcément plus rapidement.

Highlights

Writing involves thinking, brainstorming, outlining, developing characters, research, travel, typing, editing - it's a multi-step process.

Use AI for the parts of writing you like the least, spend more time on what you love doing yourself.

The fractal technique starts small and expands an idea into a larger one, like a snowflake growing.

Spend time validating the AI output, making sure it's good - AI is a junior writing partner.

For non-fiction, start with a message to share, ask AI for chapter ideas to educate people.

Don't write non-fiction on unfamiliar topics - use AI for productivity, not to do the work.

Writing one section at a time allows editing as you go - later sections require less editing.

Super prompts generate entire chapters at once, but require advanced prompting and multiple tries.

For SEO articles, manually create the outline then use a super prompt to generate content.

AI helps with brainstorming, outlining, research - it won't replace writers, but empower them.

The writer's strike led to AI being a tool for authors, not replacing them.

AI helps authors excel beyond what they could do alone, with less headache.

AI is a mind saver, though not necessarily a time saver.

Use every tool available in the quest to become the best storyteller.

AI helps blast past writing resistances like burnout, neurodivergence, writer's block.

Tools tailored for fiction vs. non-fiction work better than general chatbots.

AI writing tools and capabilities evolve rapidly, guidance requires regular updating.

Transcripts

today I'm going to show you how to write

a book with AI in 2024 while it may look

like you can just write a book with the

push of a button anyone who's actually

worked with AI knows it's not that

simple hello my name is Jason I'm the

nerdy novelist and I made my first video

on this channel in response to so many

people out there making videos about how

to write a book with AI and it was clear

from an author who's written multiple

books at this point and who has worked

for the last couple of years at

kindlepreneur which is one of the

largest websites about writing and

self-publishing your books it became

very clear to me that most of these

people that were making videos about how

to write books with AI knew nothing

about what they were talking about uh

and had clearly never written a book in

their life I have and so in this video

I'm going to be giving you the

step-by-step method to write a book

whether it's fiction or non-fiction

using Ai and then I will show you two

different methods that I believe are the

two best methods to actually get the

pros out and onto the page now before we

do that I want to answer the question

should we even be using AI to write

books now I know this is a controversial

question for a lot of people but here's

my take on it a lot of people view

writing as a single thing that you do

when in fact it is actually a multi-step

process it involves thinking

brainstorming it involves outlining it

involves developing characters and

developing your world it involves

research it might even involve travel it

involves of course the actual mechanical

Act of typing the words out onto a page

or writing them down by hand if that's

more your style it involves multiple

types of editing we have developmental

editing we have line editing we have

proof reading that's just the tip of the

iceberg and that entire process is

something that we call writing most

people are not going to need to use AI

for every single step of that process

and in fact what I recommend is that you

pick the area that you love the least

and choose to learn how to use AI for

that particular step of the process and

for other areas that you love the most

make sure those are the areas that you

spend the most time on yourself what

this is going to do is it's going to

maximize the amount of creative pleasure

that you get out of writing while also

making it a little bit easier on

yourself so you don't burn out which is

what happened to me several years ago

and which AI was able to help me with

but that said I'm going to show you how

you can use AI in almost every step of

the process in this video so let's Dive

In now I'm not going to talk too much

about the tools that we're going to need

but there is a video that you can check

out at the end of this video to know

what tools are the best tools for

writing fiction however my general

recommendation is that you have one tool

that is specialized for the type of

fiction or non-fiction that you want to

use and then a specific chatbot to help

with basically everything else the two

most common chat Bots are Claude and

chat GPT however you also can use other

tools such as open router or po to

access multiple different models within

one service now generally when writing a

book I recommend a prompting strategy

called the fractal technique which is

very similar to another strategy that

existed long before AI called the

snowflake technique and in that

technique you basically start with a

small idea and then you expand that idea

into something larger and then you

expand that into something larger etc

etc etc until you have a fully fleshed

out manuscript I'll give you an idea of

what that looks like right now I'm going

to use a random brainstorming prompt you

don't have to use this particular one

any kind of prompt to get your ideas

flowing will do give me an idea for 10

news stories set within a

1920s New York setting that could be

used as the basis for a

hardboiled detective story and now it's

going to give me 10 news stories for a

1920s New York hardboiled detective

story socialite found murdered in her

luxury apartment apartment on Park

Avenue police suspect her jealous

husband or lover a police a politician

is caught up in a Speak Easy shooting he

claims he was there trying to close it

down but rumors swirl and so on and so

on and then we get a whole bunch of

these ideas and you might start piecing

them together so let's say we want to do

this one a reclusive millionaire art

collector is killed when a precious

painting is stolen from his Fifth Avenue

mansion you now take this and say please

flesh out number six into a full

synopsis with a three act structure and

that's a simple version of a synopsis

prompt to get a full synopsis out of

this and you can see how this goes right

we take act one and expand that into a

more Ser a larger series of chapters

then we take chapter one and expand that

into to a larger series of Beats and

from the Beats we create our full Pros

now there's a problem that happens at

this stage and the problem is that we

might take a look at this and it's a

little too generic or it's lacking

creativity or what have you and so one

of the most important things that you

need to do and one of the reasons why AI

is not going to replace authors but is

instead kind of a junior writing partner

is that you have to spend a good amount

of time validating these words and

making sure that they are good and so

I'll give you an example of what that

looks like here so let's say we take

this synopses here into Microsoft Word

and we say Edmund Charles clarage III is

a waspish eccentric millionaire who

lives in a palacial yet gloomy Fifth

Avenue Mansion stuffed with Priceless

rare art which no one ever sees he keeps

all visitors out and leaves the house

only for occasional trips to obscure

galleries to buy more precious paintings

one morning CL clar's longtime Butler

enters the lock study to find his life

lifeless body slumped over his desk a

decorative letter opener stuck in his

back and an empty space on the wall

where his newly purchased 2 million

rembrand painting hung all right not a

bad opening kind of generic though and

so one of the things we might want to do

is say like what are some more creative

ways that we could make this better and

you can just write that in right here or

you can say please brainstorm five ways

to make the o

opening hook more creative and then you

let Claude or chat gbt whichever chat

bot you're using I give you a few ideas

and from those ideas then you can then

pick and choose oh that sounds good or

that doesn't I you know whatever it is

you want to do now the other thing you

might be asking is what about

non-fiction and with non-fiction the

fractal technique works as well but it's

going to be a little bit different with

non-fiction you might start out with a

simple idea of a message you want to

share or something you want to educate

people on and then you ask chat GPT for

a number of ideas for chapters that you

want to include inside of that book for

non-fiction in particular you have to be

careful about the actual accuracy of

your text which is something you don't

have to worry about too much for fiction

because it's fictional but it can give

you a really good rundown of possible

chapter types that you want to have

within the non-fiction book and then

what you can do is within each chapter

you then ask the AI to brainstorm and

outline for that chapter and then from

there you can go into actually writing

the entire thing I'll open up another

chat here in Claude to give you an

example of what I mean so let's say I

already have an idea for a non-fiction

book I want to write and so all I would

do is say please give me a list of we'll

say 30 possible chapters for a book

about

dopamine fasting so we don't necessarily

need to get to this synopsis stage we

can kind of skip from idea to fully a

fully fleshed out outline but then what

we want to do is like with the synopsis

for the fiction we want to go through

these and make sure that they are actual

actual topics that we want to write

about I cannot stress enough you should

not be writing non-fiction about topics

that you are unfamiliar with and I know

some of you are going to be saying well

if you're already familiar with it what

do you need AI for and the reason you

need AI is because it is a productivity

assistant not something that's doing the

work for you it is assisting you and so

it can give you ideas you look at these

30 chapter types and you say oh yeah

these are all really great things to

cover but maybe this chapter isn't

really relevant or this chapter is kind

of repeating itself from an earlier

chapter and you just go through and pick

and choose the chapters that you want

and then sort of figure out in what

order they should go and then let's say

we're ready ready to write one of the

chapters we let's say foods to avoid

during a dopamine fast all right number

seven let's say we're writing that

chapter right now please give me a list

of topics to cover in chapter 7 and

since we're using the same chat it knows

the context of what chapter 7 means and

so it's able to give a very clear list

of topics to cover so Define what foods

foods are considered stimulating and

should be avoided discuss avoiding

processed foods high in sugar unhealthy

fats and chemical additives explain why

foods like cake candy soda and junk food

should not be consumed talk about

cutting out or limiting caffeine intake

from coffee tea and energy drinks and so

on and so forth and it does a really

good job and if you're an expert in the

field you'll be able to know like yes

that's a good one no that's not a good

one and you might be able to also add a

few chances are going through this list

will help you really understand what you

should be doing it'll help you add some

things that that you might have missed

but it'll also prompt you to add a few

extra things that you with your

expertise already know and then from

here you can say write the first 500

Words of this chapter if you want to do

Pros however this is a rather

inefficient way to create your pros and

that brings me to the two methods that I

believe are the best to actually write

the pros for you let me reiterate that

you don't have to use AI for this

process but if you do I'm going to show

you the two best ways to do so the first

is writing it one section at a time the

second is writing entire chapters all at

once and there are pros and cons to each

the writing chapters all at once

requires often a little bit more

advanced prompting which I am going to

show you later so the first one let's

talk about going step by step I'm going

to use a tool called novel crafter which

is specifically for fiction but you can

find other tools that are similar for

non-fiction out there or you can just

use chat GPT to do this chat GPT is

actually set up pretty well to run a

similar situation to this for

non-fiction but basically what we do is

here in novel crafter we can add what's

called a scene beat these are similar to

these individual bullet points that we

want to cover so you in this case we say

Cinderella runs from the ball and

forgets her slipper right and then we

generate the pros in novel crafter you

can generate you can pick which model

you want to use I'm going to use Claude

2 and it starts writing this particular

scene Cinderella bursts through the

Grand doors of the palace Ballroom her

heart pounded in her chest the Chimes of

the tall grandfather clock at the top of

the grand staircase began to ring out

signaling the start of the Midnight Hour

and so what you can do is you can just

wait until this finishes generating so

after it's finished generating you get

you have a whole bunch of text and you

can basically say Hey you know I

obviously this part here is where it

says here's a 900 word to continue

ination of the story you can get rid of

that and then you can edit this to your

heart's content for instance in this

particular version it it cuts halfway

through and says back at the palace the

prince wander wandered days through the

thinning crowds let's say we don't want

that part so we just get rid of that and

we edit this up because AI typically is

not great at natural sounding Pros

Claude 2 does seem to be the best model

for natural sounding Pros but it it's

usually very over the top and requires a

lot of editing so what you can do is you

can go through edit this down to your

heart's content and then put in the next

scene beat and it'll pick up immediately

from where you left off and the nice

thing about doing it this way is that

when you're doing the second scene beat

it will look at your first scene beat

especially if you're using a tool like

novel crafter and it will see the style

of your writing and then it will

continue in a similar style it won't be

exact but it will be much closer to

something that you want which means that

as you go each section will require less

editing because you've already edited

the last little bit and it can see what

you did and understand that in a tool

like chat GPT you can do this in a

similar fashion where you just take give

it a number of story beats and say write

500 Words of these story beats and then

you can give it the next couple of story

Beats and say write 500 Words of this

and you just move one step at a time

that way however it's a lot less

inefficient in a tool in a chatbot like

chat GPT or Claude really it's great to

have a tool like novel crafter to really

handle it for the specific situation

that you're in so that is the

step-by-step approach where you're kind

of editing it as you go however there is

another approach that I find to be maybe

even a little bit more fun although

somewhat less efficient and that is

writing an entire chapter at once here's

how you do that introducing this super

prompt this is an example of a super

prompt which is a in essence a very long

prompt that you take and you stick into

usually it's Claude 2.0 it's the only

one that can really handle this G the

latest versions of chat GPT can also

handle this however they tend to export

a little bit less words so with Claud

you could actually potentially get two

or 3,000 words in one go whereas with

chat GPT you might only get around 600

so it depends on your needs and what you

specifically ask for but I'm going to be

demonstrating this with Claude so this

is an example of a fiction Pros super

prompt I have instructions here that

says using all of the information on

chapter beats overview setting and

characters write 50,000 words of a

chapter with plenty of detail and deep

point of view use the style to determine

the pro style of the output follow the

chapter beats exactly etc etc etc lots

of instructions here and then here I

have the style that I wanted to write in

then I have a space to add characters

and I have a space to add the setting

and a space to add the overview and a

space to add the chapter beats the way

this works is I add information about

the characters here I add information

about the setting here I add information

about the overview of the chapter here

which is just a one small paragraph

about the chapter and then I have the

chapter beats which is the bulk of this

whole thing I'll show you an example of

what this looks like when it's all

filled out this is an example of a

chapter from my book Heirs of Dracula

which I live streamed the entire thing

you can go ahead and check it out on the

channel but I have the instructions here

I have the style here I have a list of

characters here right and then the

setting and the overview and then here's

my list of chapter beats all of these

were generated with the help of AI but

not exclusively I did in fact these

chapter beats I actually wrote myself so

they were not written with the help of

AI although sometimes I will ask AI for

a specific section that I might be stuck

on and so that all goes into here and

then I take this super prompt and I go

into Claud now one thing I should note

is that Claude 2.1 which is the most

recent version of Claude does not do

well with the super prompt and so I come

all I always come here and go to clae 2

0

instead then I paste in the super prompt

and hit go and then here it goes and

it's giving me a full chapter using the

prompt that I gave it now I in this case

it's doing an odd Quirk where it adds

paragraph numbers here it sometimes will

do that and in fact one of the least

precise things about the super prompt is

that sometimes you do have to run it

multiple times in order to get something

usable and so some times you can

actually spend like a good half hour

just rerunning the prompt over and over

again to get the right thing however you

can in many cases get the entire chapter

generated in one go however these days

with tools like novel crafter I think

this this method is a little bit less

efficient because with novel crafter

you're able to run the entire thing and

you're able to do basically everything

that a super prompt can do because over

here in the Codex you can add characters

so it knows about characters you can add

locations for the setting there's all

sorts of different things you can do to

get the same effect but you're editing

it as you go which means it's not going

to get derailed as easily as it might

here if you're using a super prompt

however there is a non-fiction scenario

where I do still use the super prompt

and I love using it and that is for

online articles and I'll show you an

example of what that super prompt looks

like so this is an example of a super

prompt for an SEO informational article

the instructions go I want you to write

a 30,000 word informational article for

your topic by the way the reason I say

30,000 words is because I really want it

to stretch this only works with Cloud

2.0 so if you're using this with a gp4

model or with Cloud 2.1 you would need

to put in a lower number that's more

realistic but with CLA 2.0 you can

actually get some good results by

telling it to get have massive amounts

of words so an informational article

about your topic here from a first-

person perspective Ive use I when

describing your feelings about the

subject just to kind of make it a more

personal article and yada y yada and

then I have the style here and then I

for an SEO article I like to make sure

it has a list of keywords and I will

instruct it to include the keywords one

to four times depending and then we add

the article outline and this is where I

will actually go through and manually

add all of the headings that I want the

article to have and this is one step

that I do entirely myself based on my

own experience as an SEO writer because

I know what really a good article

outline should look like so I'll just

stick that all in there and then I will

give it examples of other articles that

cover the same topic because we want to

make sure that it has all of the

background information that it needs to

have and in case you're wondering about

plagiarism I have never and I've tested

this almost every time I've done it I

have never found that the AI plagiarizes

the other articles when you do this uh

and believe me I have checked that's an

example of an SEO article super prompt

and you could do something very similar

for a non-fiction book chapter so those

are the two different ways to actually

write Pros you can do it one step at a

time where you're editing as you go or

you can use a super prompt however the

super prompt is p is pretty limited it

can really only be used with Claude 2.0

and not any other model at least as of

the beginning of 2024 as always AI is an

Ever evolving system and so that is why

this is the second time I have created

this video because everything needs to

be updated now and then and I will

probably make it again before this year

is over as new models and new tools come

out now you might be asking why would

anybody actually want to write a book

with AI well in my experience I went

through a very severe period of burnout

and AI was actually the thing that sort

of prompted me to to get back into

writing a little bit because it was able

to help me blast past a lot of those

resistances and I found that most of the

people who follow me on this channel

have some kind of resistance that

they're struggling with maybe they're

dealing with burnout like I did maybe

they have some sort of neuro Divergence

like ADHD dyslexia or Autism maybe

you're just really stuck on a part of

your writing and you need to get past

that rers block the point is AI can help

you at every stage of the process it can

help you with brainstorming it can help

you with outlining it can help you with

doing research like research for a

historical fiction novel will never be

the same because now we have have ai to

help with that process the same goes for

non-fiction as well and I really hope

that this has helped you understand that

AI is more of a tool it's a productivity

tool to really help you be your best

self when you are writing and that it's

not a tool that will be replacing

writers in any way and in fact other

people know this in the writers strike

that happened in 2023 a lot of people

think that they were against AI when in

fact they weren't the results of the

writer strike led to an agreement that

meant that the studios would not be

replacing authors with AI but that the

power of using the AI would be in the

hands of the authors themselves that was

what they were fighting for so that the

authors could be the ones benefiting

from the AI and not the studios and I

actually think that that is the best way

for AI to be thought about it is a tool

for the authors to really Excel far

beyond what they would be able to do

otherwise and with less headache I've

said this before and I've said this

again AI is a mind saer not necessarily

A Time saer and in my ongoing quest to

be the best Storyteller ever I'm going

to be using every tool at my disposal

now that was useful for you and you

would like to know more about the actual

tools that I use I would recommend

looking at this video right here which

will walk you through my favorite tools

for writing fiction and I'll see you in

the next video