autocreate can be amazing to help you actually identify not just identify but understand the motives behind why you should edit your novel The Way It recommends it gives you a whole bunch of reports and suggestions and actually in a way sort of teaches you what is good writing which is an essential skill whether you use AI or not but today I've actually started using a technique that makes the entire process of utilizing autocrit so much easier and I'm going to share that technique with you today so you can uncover the same time Savers that I
[Music] have so here in autocrit I have one of my old projects here the first thing I recommend you do when you're in autocrit no matter what you plan to do is to actually go here to the analysis Tab and then come here to summary report and what this does is it generates a large report of the story and it's looking at a whole bunch of things it's looking at dialogue it's looking at adverbs it's looking at your dialogue tags it's looking at your paragraph and sentence lengths and there's just a whole bunch of stuff
that it's doing just so you understand how autocreate works it is comparing your book to other books in your genre because there may be instances where your genre is abnormal in the way it uses say adverbs for example and so you want to make sure it's more or less holding up in comparison to other books in the genre because if it doesn't that's going to lead to readers reading your book having a certain expectation for a way the book is structured and the way it's written and then being disappointed when it ends up being really
different from other books that they're expecting and are used to so you do want to have the grammar and everything kind of matching up with your genre for that reason so you can pick a genre here you can even pick a specific author if you would like but for now I just have it set to generic fantasy because that's good enough for me and then down here it will give you an overall score now I've already put some work into this book and so the score is already not too bad it's definitely well into the
green here says this is an excellent overall score in line with bestseller expectations but there's always more that I can do and it gives me a recommendation based on my score and this is what you want to pay attention to if you want to really utilize the power of AI to improve your book rapidly so in this case it says the strong writing category requires the most attention in this particular piece of work this category includes some straightforward reports like adverbs and filler words along with more tricky aspects such as showing versus telling try running
through the individual reports in this category first to make a big impact on your overall score so this tells me immediately I want to work on the strong writing category so over here on the side you can see we have all of the different categories so I'm going to click on strong writing and pull it all the way down here so I can immediately see adverbs for example is I've got way more adverbs in this particular manuscript than is normal for a fantasy and Fantasies tend to be very long books and so even if I
got this down to 600 or so it might still be too many because my book is shorter than the average fantasy book so we might want to bring this all the way down to like maybe 400 or so by contrast you can see in other areas of this particular category like showing versus telling there are uh fewer counts in mind than in typical fantasy books so that's actually good maybe I don't have to put as much work into this one as the adverbs though it always helps to scan through these reports and make sure that
there's nothing that you're like oh yeah that really should be changed and improved so let's look at this adverb report I'll come here and say run report and it gives me a list of adverbs that we're using here and it's telling me like oh there's too many here there's like excessive amounts of the words slowly for example I got 29 uses we want to remove at least 14 of them it says so anytime we come across the word slowly we'd want to do that so we could select on the word slowly and it'll immediately highlight
the word and I can come in here and say the den of the slowly quieting City faded behind her there might be a better way to say this so I could say the den of the quieting City faded behind her that actually is probably enough we can just remove it and it's still maintains the same meaning because we have the word faded in there it faded which implies a slow fade basically but if we wanted to add more we could add something like as she left it behind or something like that just something to kind
of add the sense of progression a way that doesn't have to use the word slowly so that's just one example and I'm going to actually undo all of that so let's say we want to actually use AI to help us remove or change all of these because if you look at this chapter here chapter 4 I've actually already done this uh work on the previous three chapters so we're not going to do all of them but let's go ahead and show all the work here so you can see there's quite a few adverbs here in
this chapter we definitely want to take most of those out there are instances where you want to have adverbs but we'll go through those one by one for instance this one sentence has quite a few adverbs in it was like and moved swiftly and silently from alley to Alley the D of the slowly quiet quieting City fading behind her those aren't necessarily bad but there could be much better ways of writing that so to do this process I'm actually into chat GPT and the model I'm going to use here is chat GPT 01 preview because
we found that the 01 model tends to actually do really well for editing and in fact it's one of the first models that does editing well at all because most of the time it just gives us edits that we think might sound better but actually aren't better whereas 01 being a reasoning model that specializes in kind of thinking things through ahead of time and reasoning is much better at making a proper call on whether to remove something to change it edit it without changing the overall meaning of the story now it's not perfect of course
because none of these models are but it's definitely the best one for this particular job now if you're using 01 outside of your chat GPT subscription this is going to be rather expensive so if you have a chat gbt subscription I recommend you use it but there are ways that you could make it work inside of Novel crafter or other tools as well that connect to open router just understand you'll be paying as you go for each prompt so here in chat chpt we're going to say here is a list of adverbs that are used
excessively in my writing that's all you need to say then beneath that we're going to just come here all we're going to do is copy this list of adverbs that are deemed excessive and that we should remove now we do have a couple of adverbs here that it says are fine so I'm only going to remove the ones that say excess here on the side and I'm just going to copy that now if the folks at autocrit are listening it would be great if there could be some kind of built-in functionality inside of autocrit that
will do this for us but for now we're just going to copy this as it is another option to the developers would be to have a button here that I could just say copy list that would be handy or way of exporting the list in some way but we can just copy it here just through plain text and paste it as plain text here inside of our chat GPT window and then below this I'm going to say the following is a chapter of my writing if you see any of the above adverbs find a way
to either remove it and still maintain the meaning of the sentence or enhance the sentence to get the same meaning with more showing instead of telling or any other way of improving the sentence without the use of the adverb do not change anything else about the pros just focus on the adverbs and then all I have to do is we're going to take this chapter chapter 4 going to copy it and I'm going to bring it here into chat GPT and paste it here beneath and I am going to do a full chapter if your
chapters are super long like in the 3 4,000 word range you might have to split this up but I found that 01 can do up to 2,000 words pretty well so we're going to go ahead and hit go and so first o one starts going through its different reasoning things so we're tackling adverb overuse revising adverbs so you get a sense of what it's doing while it's reasoning while that's running I want to draw your attention here to the count right now we have 8815 counts of an adverb usage we want to get down below
600 over the course of the whole novel but just note the number 815 here we're going to need to know that all right and now it is given us a rewrite of the chapter here and it definitely did not rewrite whole sections of the chapter which is always something you have to watch out for when you are rewriting something with AI but as you can see there are a bunch of different adverbs here and the are our score was 815 right so if we paste in the new chapter and then we're going to click here
and say rerun report our score is now down to 793 that's because we've edited this chapter and now there are many fewer adverbs in this particular chapter so what I'm going to do is say show all now you'll notice that there are actually still some adverbs in here or at least words that it thinks are adverbs there is still a softly here but this is an instance like you look at the sentence and say her Li form cleared a high wooden fence Landing Softly on the other side you know that's probably okay I would probably
leave that one we don't necessarily need to change the language in fact by doing so it might make this sentence a little bit longer and more cluttered so this is okay also some of these words that it's flagging as adverbs aren't actually adverbs like the word mentally here mentally at least she didn't want to run into some brutish drunkard or especially it's sort of tagging words that have ly at the end which is usually a giveaway of an adverb but isn't always an adverb here is one that it did leave he glanced nervously about before
continuing so that is an adverb that is one that I would maybe change but it chose to leave it so you can choose to go against it or not but certainly there are a lot fewer adverbs in this chapter than there you were before and the count has gone down from 8115 to 793 so I think that's really great and if you repeat this process for each chapter it's going to bring that count down significantly now what about that sentence where had the word slowly and swiftly and silently and all of that well that was
this sentence right here we have she put thoughts of last night's conversation out of her mind and slipped from alley to Alley the den of the city fading behind her not a single adverb inight where that sentence had at least three before and I think it's a much more succinct and better written sentence so if you are interested in this I do have a link down below to get autocrit and you can get it at a lifetime price which is not something that they normally offer except through certain Partners like myself it is a tool
that I recommend for editing especially on a sort of sentence by sentence level like this and now if you combine it with AI it's even more powerful so I strongly recommend you do this now I've only shown off the adverb section here for this particular report and they have many other reports and yes it's going to be a little bit tedious to go through all of those reports with the AI and run this process through and you are going to have to also come up with a different prompt for each report that might be something
I work on in the future is creating a library of prompts for every single report hopefully the folks at autocrit see this video and maybe have some sort of builtin solution for us but for now we're just going to have to go one by one and create a different prompt for each one one thing that I like about autocrit is that you can actually put in a list of your own words that you don't like like if you know you overuse a certain word then you can do that and you do that here in this
customize words list where you say words to include list and then you just add lists of words that you kind of want a flag for instance if you want to add any AI isms such as the word testament right you know frequently overused by different AI models I can just add that and now that one is added and I can go through and add any AI isms that I'm aware of or that I don't like put them in here and then I can actually run a report to find instances of those words and then run
that report through the AI to try and remove them and make them better so that's just a little bit introduction on how to use autocrit and AI together to create really explosive and amazing results so if that was useful for you let me know down below feel free to use the affiliate link that I have down there to support the channel and if you want to know more about autocrit and its AI features I did a video a little while ago going through some of those so check that out so you can get a good
sense of how to use this program and I will see you in the next one
