ChatGPT: a cure for writer's block
 

Just as an experiment, I got ChatGPT to create a "how to" book for me.

First, I gave it a subject and asked for 10 different possible titles with sub-headings.

Then I asked it for chapter titles and topics to cover in each chapter. It gave me a list of 10 chapters with between 5 & 10 topics to cover in each chapter.

Then I got really lazy and asked it to write each of those sections!

Less than 4 hours later, I'd got a complete 50+ page, 23k word, ebook.

A bit of editing got it ready for Kindle.

ChatGPT wrote the Kindle description.

It also did the sales letter for Gumroad and Bing's image generator did the thumbnail for Gumroad.

Is it the best quality? Probably not. But almost certainly better than a ghost written ebook at one of the article sites. And with a bit more time editing then it would be better.

But even if I just wanted an outline that would have saved a lot of time.

Wow!

The SPEED is what I like.
 

Imagine doing one a week for a year? A complete library of work to offer.

What you've given here is a TEMPLATE anyone could follow. I'm currently having a discussion with BARD about how its programmers might be biased and how that impacts what it reports...interesting discussion...Bard admits it is BIASED, and that is laid on its programmers (next thing, ol Bard will tell me the dog ate it's homework).

Once one got the prompts down, including key words, phrases, and then a little personal touches, and this is a game changer for some infopreneurs.

Still have to SELL the things, and maybe C-gpt or Bard can give a good answer on how the best way to sell these reports might be, and ask it for copy and where to run it, best groups for example.

WOW is right. Whenever we can cull a given web site, and extract what we've done here for 23 years, Dien and I may be dumping the load on AI, why not?

Good job. Can you use June and create, say 5 related reports, pulling out one of the chapters and expanding on it? You may have the Midas Touch with Chatgpt, not much time to find out, eh?

Gordon

Fast is fun!
 

At Gordon's suggestion, I'm documenting the next book.

It's taken all of 5 minutes for ChatGPT to give me 20 titles, each with a subheading and then - once I'd chosen a title - 10 chapter headings, each with at least 4 sub-sections.

Now it will take a while to get each section written and copied & pasted into Word.

In passing, Gordon mentioned that the book will need promotion.

My first instinct was "how".

My second instinct, after letting my subconscious think about it for an hour or two, was videos.

ChatGPT has about 50 titles (each chapter heading plus at least 4 sub-heads)

So all I'll do is ask it to write the video scripts, copy and paste each one into wave.video, let it come up with the relevant images and then generate the voice. Then upload to YouTube, rinse and repeat.

My guess is that with 50 videos on one topic it will start to gain traction and each video will have a link to the book in the description.

I guess that will keep me busy for a while!

It will be interesting to see what scripts they come up with.
 

I'm not familiar with wave.video, but I'll check it out. Sounds like 80% of this journey will be AI generated.

As for selling. I have the opinion, which I readily share, it takes about a year to get to 5k a month recurring income, and probably the first 9 or 10 is more or less setting things up, having enough content, so when it is time to bring traffic to your stuff, you'll have enough to sell at various price points.

If the process works, and I'll go sign up for wave.video now and see what it does...then DOUBLE WOW WOW, let the good times roll.

thanks Trevor, for sharing your journey here.

Gordon

Re: ChatGPT: a cure for writer's block
 

I think 80% could be an underestimate!

https://wave.video/ is the site I use.

Lots of others but I've found it easy - paste in the text, press "go", once it's found the photos etc, click to generate the voice, then once that's done, click "render", download the rendered file and upload to YouTube.

the ChatGPT prompt is:

can you make me a 5 minute video script about [insert topic]

(it's usually about half that time in real life but they seem to give the info in a nice way)

Re: a ChatGPT video script
 

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Re: ChatGPT: titles & 'book' writing
 

I'm currently generating (writing would be the wrong term) some Kindle books.

ChatGPT is coming up with the topics:

please give me 10 different topics related to side hustles

Finding the Right Side Hustle for You
Building a Successful Side Hustle Business
Side Hustle Ideas for Creative Individuals
Turning Your Hobby into a Profitable Side Hustle
Maximizing Productivity and Time Management in Side Hustles
Marketing and Promoting Your Side Hustle
Managing Finances and Taxes for Side Hustle Income
Balancing Your Main Job and Side Hustle
Scaling and Growing Your Side Hustle Business
Side Hustles for Passive Income Generation

I can (and do) ask ChatGPT to come up with other titles but those ones are pretty good I think.

Then ZimmWriter (the program I use to create content) is creating about 5,000 words around that title.

Cost: under 10 cents (wow!)

I then put the output from ZimmWriter into a (free) online program that turns it into Word format.

Copy and paste into Word, tidy up (the bullet points often need tidying) and add a table of contents.

Then put into Kindle.

Are they perfect? Of course not.

Are they better than lots of other Kindle books? In my view, yes. They're semi-in-depth, grammar is good, spelling is good. That puts them about a lot of Kindle products.

Time will tell how they sell but it's going to be an interesting experiment!

Can I buy your HOW TO report.
 

Maybe just screen shot your step by step, show me what you do with ChatGPT. Screen shot your zimmwriter, and maybe in a few minutes, have another product...and if for some reason you don't want to sell it, arrange a few jv's, let others sell it, you get moolah, without having your name floating around out there. (Raises hand as possible JV).

Keep it going, and keep us posted.

Gordon

Re: ChatGPT: a cure for writer's block
 

Well open to the idea of a JV or more.

Creation process video (on YouTube but unlisted so only people with the link can see it and if it went JV then I'd make the video totally private or take it down)

Video was paused a couple of times while things created but there's a time clock at a few places.

Links to the text file & Word document and ZimmWriter and the online site that creates the Word format.

Re: one extra step
 

ZimmWriter generates an image prompt for Midjourney but I'm using it in the free Bing image creator and it's generally working OK.

That's then getting used in the cover of the Kindle book:

Yay! In Profit!
 

Ignoring my time (obviously!) but am in profit.

Two paperbacks sold already = $5.41

Plus 71 cents royalties from pages read.

Average book "cost" under 6 cents and I've not published 100 yet.

Not millions yet but we're early days.

Congrats. A word about time.
 

More than before. Keep that in mind.

MORE THAN BEFORE.

Here's one nobody's heard before: Temporal Agglomeration. My definition: stolen from hierarchical clustering...meaning the work done on those projects in the marketplace, are the clusters to build upon...like the foundation, you don't have to keep building it, it is there.

So the time spent building the foundation (the process) increases in value as the rest of it gets built...or as we infopreneurs like to say, write it once and sell it forever.

It may have taken a day or more to learn the process, now it is reduced to minutes, or just hours. And as more DEMAND is uncovered, as in what pages are they reading, indicating an interest in THAT subject, provides clues as to what to produce next, so you have a built in way to SEE exactly what they are spending their time reading.

Temporal Agglomeration. A mouthful for sure. Not to be confused with the Deadwood episode, AMALGMATION AND CAPITAL.

As the DEMAND is discovered, the time shrinks to fulfill it and the profit increases as demand is met.

I should write a book. Opposite of Dan Kennedy NO B.S. series, mine would be YES, B.S. FOR FUN and PROFIT.

Gordon

Not heard of Temporal Agglomeration before
 

Hi Gordon

Thanks - Temporal Agglomeration sounds an interesting concept!

At the moment it's definitely laying the foundations:

Amazon Kindle (downloadable and a few for print, probably more in future) and the electronic version is Amazon only which gives me 5 days of free "sales" (test the water for popularity) and always free to anyone with Kindle Unlimited (small amount per page viewed)

The beauty is definitely write once sell lots - evergreen topics that hopefully should keep on selling.

Re: A d'oh! moment
 

Kindle sales are ticking over - nothing spectacular yet but the money is paying for the book creation and all the blog posts I'm doing.

The d'oh! moment is paying attention to what happens when you publish a Kindle book - Amazon immediately expects you to produce a paperback version.

So, as of yesterday, that's what I'm doing.

A quick re-format of the book to a paperback page size, save the cover image at a larger file size and ask ChatGPT to write the blurb for the back cover. And use the Bing image I created for the author photo.

It takes about as long as the initial Kindle publish, maybe slightly longer as the rendering to check it looks OK takes a while.

Then it's published and anyone who prefers dead trees over electrons is happy.

And when someone clicks on the free book in the first 5 days of it being published (my choice of dates, just easier to remember to do it like that) they also have a print option.

So it's hopefully win-win!