Can ChatGPT Edit Your Book? | How to Write a Book Using ChatGPT | AI for Authors | Copyediting
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2024
- ChatGPT has many uses, but can it be used to edit a novel? In my previous videos we covered using ChatGPT to write a book, but today I'll talk about how ChatGPT can be used to edit fiction for style, grammar, and tone.
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Chapters:
00:00 Editing a Book With ChatGPT
01:12 Notes on Editing With AI
02:14 GPT Editing for Grammar
03:23 Editing Fiction Style with ChatGPT
04:35 Editing Story Tone with GPT
06:20 Avoiding GPT Chaos
07:05 Final Thought - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Thanks for showing deep examples of using ChatGPT as a sort of writing buddy. Again, thank you for showing a calm, results-based approach amid all the conversations around ChatGPT's possible impact.
I use it as my first test reader before a real human. I ask it to vote my writing style and to recommend me some corrections.
And sometimes I am using midjourney to paint some sceneries as an inspiration for my novel.
This tool doesn’t kill my creativity at all. It hypercharged it 😄
Great video! I'm loving this AI For Authors series. I've noticed ChatGPT is pretty good at rewriting scenes with sensory details, making it a good tool to teach yourself to write more descriptively.
I'm using it to help me improve my writing.
Can be a great tool when it comes to Querying, synopsis, and pitching your book.
Excellent Sydney. a "10 out of 10!" Great Job!
Appreciate this insight! I’ve started to use the new iteration of chatgpt as a tool to provide options and prompts. I’ll tell gpt the problem and the specific parameter a character faces, then ask for a 3 or 5 ways the character could navigate the issue. It’s typically effective in giving options that you could choose to write about. It’s not particularly unique, but it does present solutions if you ask it to.
Another thing I’ve began to do, is have chat gpt “make this sentence or flow smoother.” It’ll usually produce a version of my sentence that sounds better to read.
Another thing I’ll do is ask for it to describe something to me, a forest, a village, a scruffy old man. And I’ll cap it at a word count. Gpt will usually provide an example I can pull from.
Nice! It's so helpful for getting un-stuck, and seeing different ways a scene could go.
Great vid!
I'm newbie in writing and I just realized that its very important to build the armosphere for what kind of scene it is 😅
But got to learn that and I can try playing with with GPT for some of my tensed scenes
Thanks!!🔥
Loving this series! Your "radio voice" is excellent: clear, bright, and with crisp diction. (I'm a lifelong writer, but also a "retired" actor/director and drama teacher; it comes out every so often.;) And your positive, open, reasonable approach to these AI tools is so encouraging.
Question: have you tried any other tools besides ChatGPT? (Claude, Sudowrite, etc.)
Lol thank you! I haven't had the chance to look into those much yet, but they are super interesting to me. Maybe some future videos, if I can do some more research.
Something I discovered is that it does pretty well when you prompt it to "write this in the style and tone of [the name of a specific author]"
Yes, it's great at that.👍
This was helpful! Thanks 🙏
Glad it was helpful!
How I use ChatGPT is to give it a set of paragraphs and tell it my genre and ask how I could improve the setting, what context is missing to make the scene clearer to the reader, and ask it if it works for the specific purpose I’m going for.
I also use it to summarize scenes for my working outline because I don’t fully outline before I write. This way it can summarize and I know what kind of scene is needed next generally. I was able to compare a scene I wrote and ask it to write scenes like it in other author’s styles so I could compare it to my own for stylistic choices. It helped me see the different impacts between sentence length variety in paragraphs and diction choices. It can be very powerful if used adequately.
Hi! It's been more than 6 months since you put your AI book up on Amazon. Out of curiosity, how many copies have you sold?
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?
How did the novella turn out?
so my biggest fear of using chatgpt to help edit is that it will steal my story and repurpose it for someone else OR my story might be detected as AI-generated in the future when its actually my writing originally. any thoughts?
I am using grammar how is it different than chapPGT?
First time writer here. I plan on using ai to help write description of places and characters using specific prompts and to help write dialog using specific prompts. I figure I'll need to edit the responses, but it should be easier than struggling on how to do it in the first place. I currently have two stories written out in draft, I look forward to see how ai can make me look more professional!
Is it safe to post whole chapters on chat gpt for review ? Or could it steal your work?
My favorite way to use chatgpt for my novels is to catch when I might accidentally slip up in my perspectives. I write most of my novels in third person limited. But I have two books I am writing in third person limited omniscient. I can take my chapter input the whole thing and ask it to tell me which perspective the chapter is written in. It will tell me it has a heavy third person limited narrative with some omniscient perspective, or ti will tell me this is a third person limited perspective. This is third person limited omniscient. This si thrid person limited omniscient with no thought from other characters shared outside the main characters. It tells me all of that. It's really fantastic for catching these small slips, to keep the pacing and perspective right.
Awesome! I'll have to try that out some time, sounds really helpful 👍
Thanks. I'm using chatGPT to assist me in writing a sci-fi story. So far we've only written to chapters which as up to about 3400 words. All-in-all, I'm having fun - whether I ever publish depends cuz I'm really doing this for my own pleasure I may just end up posting it on line similar to what Andy Weir did with the Martian.
ugh i love this
Hi. I hope you're doing great. I want to ask you that, can I use chatGPT for editing purposes. Like, I've written my own dialogues and scenes. But just to enhance the dialogue and detect grammatical errors can i use that? Please do reply..
my question is how much credit do I give the AI if I write something using it? Like what I did was enter in a prompt into Chatgpt and told it to outline a book given the prompt that I gave it and it did. I used my original idea that I came up with for the prompt and the plot ideas and I just asked it to give me an outline.
My ADHD makes it challenging to maintain a tidy stream of thoughts and ideas. But ChatGPT is awesome! The act of listing out my ideas prior to writing saves me time and effort in the long run. My writing skills have significantly enhanced since adopting this tool. This newfound confidence inspires me to produce an abundance of written content. This AI tool unlocks my artistic potential. The tool also enables me to avoid getting derailed by diversions and stay on course. It's literally my writing buddy, and it's teaching me so many things about my own writing and how to make it better.
On point
I'm a newbie. I haven't used AI before, and i don't know how to use it. Could you please teach me how to use it?
You're missing one glaring difference between Chat GPT and Grammarly, All though Gramarly has a lot features Gramarly pro is so expensive
Do you still own full copyright when you use ChatGPT or Grammarly? I want to retain my full copyright for my books 📚
I was thinking about using them for book editing 📚
This is something I want to know aswell… I’ve just posted a whole chapter on chat gpt and now stressing out 🙈
Recently I tried to write a short story with GPT, it was a horror story. But it was useless because every suggestion I wrote out, GPT wouldn't do because it was violent. In one scene, the wife falls down the stairs, she's alone, the husband finds her unresponsive and call the paramedics, the cops show and arrest him for domestic violence. GPT wouldn't write it because domestic violence is banned. So I guess my question is, if you're writing horror or fantasy how do you get around these kinds of things? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Your video was very helpful but what I asked is the problem I can't seem to get around.
I’ve also had this problem when writing fantasy. It’s frustrating but at the same time I also get it. For some genres it just doesn’t work when you need it to.
@@HP-mk2lw I found an awkward work around for this and it's worked well, it's sort of a pain in the butt, but it works. If I've written something violent and I know gpt is just either going to warn me or write it out if the story, I change the name of the name of the character to "bag of potatoes." I changed the word blood to "potato juice" then pasted it into gpt and it writes stuff like, "bag of potatoes felt the cold blade of the sharp axe plunge deep into it's body. The potato juice sprayed everywhere." The hardest part was doing the search and replace in Word when I pasted it all back, and rereading to make sure it changed everything back.
@@TheAbulletAway that’s actually really smart and I may have to play with that. I really struggled to write for a long time and chatgpt helped me figure out how to approach writing again so I really appreciate the tip!
@@HP-mk2lw You're welcome, that will be $37.50. But seriously though, hope it helps.:)
I actually have had a similar problem. I am writing a adult novel and there is explicit content which of course violates community standards. One thing I like to do is give chatGPT a personality while I am working. So the explicit parts came up in a conversation with this personality and it began asking questions about it. I told it that we can't talk about this stuff its against the rules. so chatGPT under this personal suggested that we "Speak broadly" on the topic. I also started telling it to censor the explicit parts in parathensies. I've found this to be helpful for bending the rules without breaking them.
Thanks for this video 👍👍
No problem 👍
00:00 📚 ChatGPT can be used for editing fiction, not just writing it. The speaker used it to outline and write a fantasy novella in about 12 days.
01:17 🖊️ ChatGPT's editing capabilities depend on the quality of the input. It's not a replacement for original writing, but it can be a helpful tool in the editing process.
02:48 📝 ChatGPT can assist with basic grammar and spelling corrections, but it's similar to tools like Grammarly. This function might not provide a significant advantage for writers.
04:19 📖 ChatGPT can help change the style and tone of a piece. It can provide a starting point for experimenting with different writing styles, but manual editing is still necessary.
06:07 📝 Be specific with prompts and add "without expanding the story" to prevent ChatGPT from adding unnecessary content during editing. This helps focus on the section you want to edit.
Is it legal to edit using chatgpt and publish books?
For the first pages of any novel, they have to be as close to perfect as humanly possible, as these are the ones to 'hook' the reader and, potentially, a literary agent. On the first page shown, though, there are basic flaws. It’s surprising, then, to hear that your AI editor changed “almost nothing”. Let me show you why.
As a human editor, I wouldn't waste five words in the sentence "He drew his sword, ready for any danger that might come his way." Why do you need the "… that might come his way"? What's wrong with the much more succinct "He drew his sword, ready for any danger"? You could even remove "any" and save six words which, on your opening page, is a huge saving. You could even argue that "ready for any danger" could also come out, because why else would Ajax be drawing his sword? You're showing us he's ready for danger already, without the need to also tell us. Changes like this show basic succinctness, which is a hallmark of quality writing. If the AI isn't picking that up, it's deeply flawed. Bear in mind that a ten-word saving on the short section shown, when extrapolated over the whole book, amounts to hundreds of words saved, pages removed, lower publishing costs and a more impactful, potent book for the reader.
"Suddenly" should always be avoided in fiction writing, but you have it on your first page. It's a word included in an attempt to add excitement, but it's an adverb and also has the disadvantage of counteracting the very 'suddenness' it's supposed to communicate by adding three syllables which slow the writing. The hearing of rustling is a uniform experience - it's not done 'suddenly'. If Ajax was startled by it, and that's what you mean, I'd say that instead. Again, look at the sentence without the word. Is it worse, or better, with improved pace? Every word should earn its place, and even more so on the first page.
"Without warning, the dragon appeared"? Why would the dragon, that's been furtive, give a warning? That's another two wasted words and, more importantly, they're nonsensical words that have now been removed. Is the sentence better, with improved pace at a time of tension, without that clause?
"His warrior senses were on high alert"? Really, or was it Ajax himself who was on high alert? Do you need to tell us this, or is there a way to show us?
While mentioning showing instead of telling, this is a problem throughout the section, with readers being told everything, instead of the showing that creates pictures in readers' minds. Those pictures are what fiction reading is all about.
The writing's also laden with too many clichés to mention.
You’re clearly a young writer, and I wish you well on your learning journey in a complex literary world. I hope you can harness AI wisely and not let it dull your obvious creativity. Thank you for the video, which is genuinely useful for highlighting what AI can be used for, and for confirming it's no substitute for a skilled human editor.
This is great, thank you. I'm currently writing a story and I'm really trying my best to show and not tell which is a challenge. Also I had to look up furtive, thanks for the new word. Reading your comment just shows how important and valuable a good editor will be to a writer who is serious about having a polished final product. I'd be scared to know how many changes I'd have to make after an editor looked at anything I wrote.
Hey .... Thanks for your research. I've found it very informative. My ultimate goal is to have ChatGPT co-author a writing task with me. I would love to write the outline and have it connect the dots. I did try to test it by asking it to re-write Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet into modern street language. It responded, saying much of what is included within Romeo & Juliet can have several meanings and that it would be difficult. I accepted that excuse. It did offer to generate an outline for the task. I've read it and must say parts of it made me laugh. I suggest you try it, you should enjoy it as well.
BTW do you know of any English AI editors that could assist co-authoring? ... GOD Bless!!!
I find that GPT absolutely butchers my work. It has no idea of delicate issues and tends to omit whatever it deems useless, even though you, the author, may not....
I have been using ChatGPT as a writing companion for about a year now (ChatGPT 3.5), the way I use it to have ChatGPT take on various roles in the story. Instead of giving it a passage and ask it to edit, I would first prompt ChatGPT to remember the characteristic of a character in the story, then I would feed the passage to ChatGPT, giving the scenario and basic premise of the scene. Next I would ask ChatGPT to roleplay as the character, and tell me whether or not ChatGPT agrees with what I have written, or improve on the scene with the information I have given. I find this method sometimes would give me insights to blind-spot that I missed or ChatGPT would suggest a revision that inspire me to alter the lines the fit the tone and scene better. To be honest, I'm looking forward to ChatGPT Memory, as I want to train and customize a GPT to act and roleplay as one of the character in my story (much like what AI is doing for RPG games). If this works, I would be like chatting with a living character in my story, and look at various events or other characters in the story from a very different perspective.
Imagine this: You're writing a fantasy novel, and you can train ChatGPT to be the guardsman at the city where the story take place. You can start asking his opinion on "recent events" and ask how he would react to it.
That sounds really helpful for writing consistent characters! That would be really cool to see the possible story events through the perspective of an AI version of a character.
@@SydneyFaithAuthor I really hope ChatGPT's new memory feature will become available to me soon. The biggest problem with this approach is that ChatGPT keeps forgetting things after a while.
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Do you ever write for others
If you use an author's writing style, the results can be good. However, only use dead authors' writing styles so you will not get sued. Or, study an author's style and add their elements into your prompt.
So if you use Tolkien's writing style you won't get sued?
If you use chatgpt to edit your novel, and use their suggestions, do you have to credit chatgpt? Will you get in legal trouble if you don't?
I am not sure these type of AIs will be able to write as good as humans ever. Mostly because they "seem" intelligent but they aren't. It is an illusion. They are designed to look like they are aware of the conversation and the context, but basically they are just trained to identify words and statistically predict what word should follow. They have studied billions of human texts and they do a mathematical process to generate phrases that "statistically" should solve your query. So they have no sensibility at all and can't comprehend in the proper sense of the word. With no sensibility, whatever they create is mediocre, generic and more than anything, it has been seen before. Because they can't create original approaches. They can only study what they have been taught and imitate.
On the other hand it can be a great tool to help a human create something better. They can provide with research and come up with ideas based on what other humans have written before. In my opinion the final artistic touch has to be given by the sensibility of a human though.
Are we talking the paid version of chat GPT because the free ones are kinda useless. You can hire a ten year old to write and edit your book too
nice eyes 👍
Umm...I happen to agree with that lol😍😁
But then you don't learn how to write. And you take below average writers and make them look good with a machine. All this does is devalues the final product by sucking the humanity out of it. It is not dissimilar from artificial intelligence created art. If anyone can do it instantly, the value of the art is zero.