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Thanks, this and the comments were really helpful. I just sat a sudowrite ad and had never heard of it

I don't know about others. As for me, I make it a point to use AI as less as possible. Why? Because there is something called a writer's Ego, when tells me: "Write you own original stuff, instead of leaning on the crutch of AI to help you with your writing." And believe me, it is absolutely necessary to fan this writer's Ego from time to time, so that when the final manuscript is ready, you can say proudly to yourself: "This is something that has mostly come out of MY brain, with only 5 -10% input from an AI tool." Believe me, the joy of being able to say this to yourself is something magical. You can go to bed with a clean conscience, knowing that the final output is 90% original creation that only YOU are privileged to take credit for. As for the future marketibility of the book and its ability to compete with AI-generated books in the near (or distant) future, that's a different story altogether. If you are happy that you have written an original book based on your lived experiences and your own research, then that should be enough to make you immensely happy as a writer. Sometimes this happiness is all that's needed for a writer. Creativity and originality are most important for a true writer. Marketability and readership are also important, but that's Part II of the story. If the Part I is right, writers will naturally get the drive to explore Part II, through proper book promotion and social networking. PS: My comment may not be directly related to the contents of this video. I jus felt like expressing my thoughts, so I typed this 🙂

I heard that publishing it as your own is like plagiarism. My daughter constantly reminds me that I can’t use what AI comes up with. How do you go around the legality of using it as your own?

Hey Sydney thanks a lot for this video , I would love if you could give a short critique my world building and magic system, I need help on it and I need some advice and constructive criticism, please thank you 🙏

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I have finished my first novel and was wondering how chatGPT would be able to proof read twenty chapters and would it be worth doing it? Also, does it keep anything I submit on file? In other words, would someone else be able to steal my novel?

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Does my 350-page novel count as a low-content book on kdp. I wanted to schedule a release for it but kdp won't let me since it's a low-content book. I was honestly gonna try and cheat the system and set my book as a large print that way I could set a release date. What should I do?

Thanks for the info. I tried sudowrite but did not do everything from the start. Still, it took me past my writer's block and well into the novel. Now I am testing 4O which does about the same. Both AI's cannot write more than a chapter without going off subject.

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Excellent Sydney. a "10 out of 10!" Great Job!

I am using grammar how is it different than chapPGT?

My elves... They have a reproductive system of being obligate queuers, with a seperate male and female hierchy. They have a longer gestational period, and they only hit puberty at 20, and their narrow frames on a humanoid bodyplan do severely limit their ability to produce offspring. They have a fertility rate of around 5.9 to 6.1 children per women, but only one in four women would reproduce, because of them being obligate queuers, and the young being so altricial, and the birthing process so heavy on the mother that many would be too busy caring for nieces and nephews upon becoming fertile, that they might not choose to have their own off-spring. Bi-racial elves, have a unique way is that their colorations, to humans, there pigmentations look like the one of a generic white person, but to elves, having this combination would make them unusual. Also, those who are drow with dinurnal elves are typically predisposed to being late birds, nocturnal or diurnal, and tend to have very messy circadian rythms, or rather lack them entirely.

Wow, there is that big number again… 250,000 lol trying to give me nightmares? Great video. My process is after I carefully edit it, I hand it off to my editor who then hands it back to me all in red and I cry myself to sleep for a few weeks questioning if I should just give up. Then I keep going cause she is expensive, and I need to make my money back somehow. Then she proof edits and I cry myself to sleep some more. I then proof edit it twice. So my process is a lot of self questioning and tears lol.

Very useful thank you. I write non fiction and the create, edit, create edit, combine, etc. Is good to hear your take on it. It's exciting to be able to pull so many ideas together, synthesize them and produce a well researched annotated work in much less time then it otherwise would.

Hi Sydney. This is very informative. Been editing book 2 myself. Would you care to give advice on how to properly get kdp book cover dimensions for publication?

Hi Sydney, If I may ask. How can I make the dimensions of my cover fit properly for a kfo upload?

I just want to point out that Shadowdale is a place in the Forgotten Realms novels, a setting of D&D

I received my copy of Legends of the "Shadow Woods" today.

I ordered Legend of the Shadowoods. I'm anxious to read it

Humans create art. Computers create data. Let’s stick with art!

You allowed AI to write a book.

Great video! Can you put the prompts u suggest to make a novel longer in the video description? Your vids are very helpful u earned my sub. Lol Thanks!

Out of all the videos I've watched so far on this topic, this was the clearest and most informative one. Thank you!!

Im working on my dads biography right now... I plugged the outline into AI for a summary, then I used the summary to create a midjourney prompt for a book cover. Midjourney came close but Ideogram created the perfect cover on the first try (including spelling of the title).

Cover art is the eye candy for the reader. I always hate it when I see a cover art that has nothing to do with the story. Like a happy cover with two people riding off into the sun but the book is a tragedy genre and no one is riding off happy into the sun. Or see swashbucklers swinging on a ship but there are zero boats in the story. You have good talent with cover designs. Cause mine is dark fantasy, I went with the have a villain on each cover approach.

Hello! How are you feeling today? Great I hope! I love your content, please keep up the great work! You mentioned reputable cover designers or design companies that will have pre-made covers. What are the names of the companies?

Before I lost my eyesight, I would pick up a book based on the title and if the title sounded like something involving time travel I would read the summary and go from there.

This was really good ❤ What do you do about the absolutely insane “plot police”😂 or censorship? Almost everything 😢 I try to do is blocked or it won’t do it at some point in the process.. mostly against any weird themes or transgender symbolism. I’m as high in “openness” and also IQ as it is possible to be basically 😂 and I think that’s why. These AI’s are made from and aimed at the middle of the bell curve. Thats fine, because I don’t use it to write, and wouldn’t, but does the censorship and prejudice come up in editing?? THANK YOU 🙏🏻 ❤

Question for the beta readers on fiver, how do I give them my story? Do I send them the story through email or do I send it through fiver?

I wish I had the money for other tools. I got laid off from my job so I have to remove my webpage lol, can’t afford it. I mostly use my own abilities to come up with things, but an AI to help with advertising would help a lot.

Thanks for the tutorial and congratulations on your new book!

Thanks heaps Sydney :) great tips! The future of authorship certainly has changed since AI arrived.

Thank you for another informative video :-)

I didn’t know that being author today would mean you had to do more than just write. That is informative. What Fantasy books have you found inspired you the most to write and ignited your imagination. For me “Phantastes” by George Macdonald was phenomenal, and, as I understand it, he is the Reason C S Lewis and J R R Tolkien wrote Narnia and Lord of the rings.

Lol 200,000 word count by accident. I think by that moment, it be best to turn it into two 100k word books. You forgot to mention target audience age is also a deciding factor in word count. For traditional publishing they also have a chart for word count by age groups. When I was flopping back and forth between indi or not I asked around and one of them gave me a few graphic carts based on their companies word count expatiations. I use them when I teach my students.

Thank you for the new video :-) I've often wondered whether word count or page count would be more important for a new novelist

How did the novella turn out?

Is any of this your words, too, including the TH-cam video?

Short and sweet. But I gotta say being so cute is a crime... I instantly subscribed 5 seconds into the video. Let's see what else you talk about on this channel.

I am surprised your channel is not bigger. Your advice is sound, and you’re a young writer who still remembers what it was like to be a new writer. Writers who been doing it for 30+ years really don’t remember the feeling, so their advice tends to be “get over it.” But we all know at the time, they were scared and needed to find steps to help.

Rather than ban AI content, I think they'll just have it in its own section. They're not going to throw away money.

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AI names all the characters Alex and Maya, all scientists are brilliant, and the plots are childish. It seems to be stuck on the same kind of plots. However, it can help with research and organization. It’s a tool. The AI rewrite tools in Grammarly and ProWritingAid are helpful but sometimes jumble the text.

Hi, nice video. Have you tried novel ai?

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Now that I have my Kindle library available on my echo device, I decided to buy this book!

If you call yourself a writer and use chatGPT you’re lying to yourself. You’re not a writer.

As a pantser with a very over active imagination, I find a medium world building with a sprinkle of deep mixed in for the start to be the easiest of the two. It makes sure you won’t info dump, but yet let readers think there is more than you wrote. Then in book 3 I take it deep, as the past catches up with the present. But I was fully aware I was writing a series, so I had to think hard on the best way to world build in 5 books. Always annoys me when the author goes big at the start, cause then it seems bland and nothing new to explore later on. One book I read a while ago, author told the entire history in like the first 3 chapters. So when the characters found a smash ancient statue you already knew why. He didn’t trust the reader with their imagination. It is always annoying when the author does not trust the reader. Anyways great vid. I think it is one of your bests.

For people with Aphantasia definitely soft w.b. I'd assume 😅