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, before you use this to start writing, you  should probably know a little bit about the 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 gonna run into these error  messages because the text is too long.

This is also a problem in GPT-4 through the browser. Once  the API fully 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, summarizing that,  and then re-running 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 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 get the 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. 

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And then I copy-paste the details, and this is  the exaggerated version I got out of GPT-4: "Do you dream of mastering any topic at  breakneck speed? Look no further than Mindgrasp, the savior of knowledge seekers everywhere! We're  all drowning in an avalanche of content - videos, articles, books, passages - and there's never  enough time to scale this mountain of information.

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But on a more serious note, it's a good tool to incorporate  into your research. But with all that being said, let's now have a look at how to achieve  infinite length 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 a 30,000-word book on the printing  press," it will simply stop at chapter 4. 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 1,200 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 GPT-4 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 7. D  with my new chapter title. " And as you can see, "7.

D 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 1A. " 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 1B. " 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 where we summarized the Wikipedia article. Now we 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 an 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 GPT-4 to perform very similarly to GPT 3. 5,  as the prompts we're using here are well-crafted. If you're just freestyling your prompts, you might  find GPT-4 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 GPT-4 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 GPT-4 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 how to highlight the problems 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 problems 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 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. This is not a final result, just the 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's my workflow. 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. 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. Fuse 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 Joe Rogan, 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. Alright, 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.

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 state 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/generated the first few chapters of my ebook.

Same process  for a 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 with 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.