Start WRITING WITH AI! (Complete Beginner Course 2025)

[@grit-mike]

After having worked in AI for close to 8 years (computer vision, machine learning etc), in my writing I don't believe AI is the soup to nuts solution, but, rather, another tool in my toolbelt. Storytelling is truly human endeavor and it has been since the days of living in caves. We went from typewriters, to computers, and now with AI we get another tool that helps us create even more amazing stories by getting feedback, iterating, getting ideas etc.

[@TheNerdyNovelist]

Absolutely agree.

[@CaptainKoozmack]

Thanks for that, I'm a storyteller with a great great creative mind however I'm completely academically challenged when it comes to structure grammar, punctuation and the writing process. I'm here hoping that somehow I can have ai help me produce and print the story that I have. A total newbie here but it's a profound fun historical fantasy. I've not accessed AI yet at all , but that was on my target for this year, so here I am trying to figure out which way to go. In the past, I just assumed I would need a Ghostwriter so now I'm hoping that AI is the replacement for that need.

[@penoyer79]

@ i'm not sure AI is going to be that magic bullet for you. at least not yet. what i would do is try and write it yourself the best you can. and every 100-200 words copy and paste what you wrote into Sonnet 3.5 and have it fix it up/expand/shorten it for you. and then you go through what AI did and make it your own. lather rinse and repeat. In my experience, AI works best when you are doing 75%-80% of the legwork and AI is supplementing the rest... not vice versa

[@avigailomichael]

This is absolute truth. You still have to be heavily involved in your own writing.

[@just_another_mike_2025]

so pumped to watch this! thank you. please consider doing a non-fiction complete guide.

[@JMNunez-wu9hr]

Great introduction to using AI tools to write, so well done there. Today I used Chat GPT 4.o and Gemini 2.0. And I fed them both the exact same prompts: a city under siege in 8th c Spain surrounded by a Moorish army. I added other details such as main characters, plot etc and as you suggested, then asked them for a plan for a chapter outline. The results from Gemini were astounding. Much better than Chat GPT. I would be curious as to the spectrum of result from other LLM’s such as Claude 3.5 when given the exact same prompts.

[@CaptainKoozmack]

You make it sound easy I have that much content and more I haven't tried anything yet it makes me hopeful to read your post

[@QuinnPrice]

AI is a great advisor, but you must craft the final product.

[@TheNerdyNovelist]

That’s exactly right! The AI is a tool. You’re the artist.

[@danielgodwin1184]

Hi can you do videos on academic writing, especially for PHD students. Thank you..

[@tonispywriter]

I've been able to suggest plots and characters and situations and Gemini has given me plot outlines and sometimes a first chapter to inspire me to go further on my own. I had an idea for a Victorian-era fantasy but I wasn't comfortable writing a historical, so I asked it to morph it into a modern day cozy mystery adventure and it did. Kinda blows my mind. So nice to see full plots where before as a pantser writer, I never knew where I was going.

[@adrianocorvo1979]

Valeu, vou adaptar para artigos de blog.👍👍

[@HerveRenaudTrading]

How can you make sure that the final product will not be flashed as AI created? And maybe rejected by Amazon KDP?

[@TheNerdyNovelist]

It won’t be. They are pro AI.

[@HerveRenaudTrading]

@@TheNerdyNovelist Really?? I thought they were against the use of AI to write books.

[@bellakaroo883]

Amazon partnered with Antropic to help develop Claude. They definitely won't be banning AI anytime soon however, they are checking for quality in using AI. I see a lot of people complaining that (for example) their coloring books get rejected the reason that they provide is a poor customer experience. Oh and plagiarism happens easily in AI so that needs to be checked before you upload your manuscript to kdp otherwise the book will be blocked.​@HerveRenaudTrading

[@bradscheller]

​No. They just want to track usage. Also, there are many tools that can help you edit your content to avoid AI detection.I​@@HerveRenaudTrading

[@illiJomusic]

Thank you sir

[@SlideSugar]

Great work

[@supervgaming1563]

I have a clear idea about my story but I am not good at writing and making at present good I can only write the story in a rough way like my words wrong my description is wrong all of that problem like this story is clear in my head but when I try to make it writing it becomes a mess so I want help in that so which one should help me the most

[@BookPall]

Thanks. That's wonderful. Please find time to create practical video on creative books.

[@akfortyfo7024]

Max tokens = maximum output tokens. Context window is fixed

[@johngibson7693]

Enjoyed your video, went to library for prompts and sign on for emails, link went to your community no way to sign up for emails. Also I don't think your search bar works

[@TheNerdyNovelist]

The community is where you get the free stuff. You enter your email when you sign up.

[@pawlieblog7967]

I doubt some of those tech bros ever read a book in their life much less write one.

[@michaelarturo6119]

It's becoming overly complicated. Writers should write to completion and then seek help shaping, editing and such with AI tools. Not the other way around.

[@chidorirasenganz]

Not really

[@michaelarturo6119]

@@chidorirasenganz Not really for those who are hellbent on hacking the writing process. And I don't begrudge them doing that. Writing is hard and time consuming. But, hacking the process and eliminating steps will lead to other deficiencies in your writing. You can bake a loaf of bread the old-fashioned way or you can mass produce it. For some people, there's no difference. For others, there is.

[@chidorirasenganz]

@@michaelarturo6119 That’s merely conjecture. Also it’s unrelated to your earlier point of AI tools making the process too complicated. It’s as complicated as you make it.

[@penoyer79]

i use ai for brainstorming, filling in plot gaps. also if i''m stuck on a specific scene and dont know how to write it...i'll let a few different models have a crack at it and Frankenstein the best bits to make my own. writer's block is a thing of the past. if anything now there's too many ideas.

[@sparrow-fartart5743]

Do you publish? How? I’m curious. If you self publish do you consider yourself an author? Because you could use the same argument there. Self publishing is overly complicated: you have to write the book, find the editors, find the cover artist, publish, market your book and everything in between (all the steps I missed). And yet there are people who will say you’re not an author you’re not traditionally published. Writers can use tools. We use pen and paper, typewriters, word processors, ghost writers and now AI. And the beauty of AI is it can be used how we wish. Help us with the writing and then we refine it, and all the other steps, although editing is a weak spot.

[@wawaldekidsfun4850]

While Jason's knowledge and experience are valuable, this video overcomplicates what has become a much simpler process in 2024. With advanced models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet, writers don't need multiple AI tools, complex "FITS formulas," or technical API understanding. Just one capable AI assistant and clear communication can produce excellent long-form content that only needs your creative review and editing. The "validation" and gradual building points are solid, but the rest feels like unnecessary complexity that might actually discourage writers from exploring AI as a writing tool. Sometimes less is more - especially when today's top AI models are this sophisticated.

[@RealityTrailers]

Dude, that jacket, it's you, man. Great video, too ; )

[@MIDNITE3RDTY]

I like to see a test video of Hemingway, DeepL, vs. EditGPT for editing so we can see which is better. That would be an awesome video!

[@JMNunez-wu9hr]

Ditto

[@loridee21]

I LOVE all your videos! You truly inspire me.

[@jameswilliams2472]

I wanted to ask if you are going do a step-by-step video of how to write a short story with AI because I have been struggling to find videos that talk about this in greater detail, and I like your method more. I have a limited reading and prose writing experience by the way because I found an interest in literature later in life.

[@TheVisionaryX]

❤

[@MaironOfAman]

It's all good as long as your story doesn't involve NSFW scenes, because no AIs so far seem willing to write that, even on paid plans.

[@penoyer79]

mistral large

[@TheNerdyNovelist]

There are MANY models that do NSFW.

[@OnceUponaYawn]

⁠have you created a video about this? Are there any free models like the new deepseek? (Which does not do nsfw)

[@5BReiningHorses]

@@TheNerdyNovelist Such as?

[@jabousan9111]

Am I crazy to thinks this ? You don't talk about the copyright issues or the possibility of stealing your idea's, script or book. ChatGPT or other AI keep every idea, writing or prompt you put in. They own our work. SO... They can sell your work or ideas to other private companies without your consent. A pitch to convince Producers is only 60 seconds long, And that's where the industry goes to... AI. Maybe a video on that topic?

[@ariesmarsexpress]

It's understandable to be concerned about your ideas, but the good news is that AI models like ChatGPT don't actually store your work in a way that could be stolen or resold. Here's how it works: these models use complex math to learn patterns in language. Think of it like learning grammar rules, not memorizing specific sentences. Your input helps the AI learn, but it doesn't keep a copy of your text. While it's true that many companies collect data online, that's a separate issue from how AI models function. But, that's a whole other conversation!

[@gaiustacitus4242]

You have a valid concern about copyright. The AI companies do not own the work, but neither does the "author" since AI generated material is not eligible for copyright protection. Anyone is free to copy the AI generated content or created derivative works of it and there is nothing the "author" can do about it.

[@gaiustacitus4242]

@@ariesmarsexpress You're a bit mistaken about how AI works. It does, in fact, store the original material in pieces. The New York TImes has demonstrated that two different AI systems have reproduced some of the NYT articles verbatim, thereby proving the phrases from its articles are stored within the LLMs. It is by storing phrases that AI is able to "predict" the most likely word(s) to complete a phrase. A randomizer is added to the algorithm to have AI select different phrases to avoid consistent output, thereby giving the illusion of intelligent design. AI is artificial but it is not intelligent.

[@ariesmarsexpress]

@@gaiustacitus4242 I create AI. It's one of my jobs. It does not have the capacity to save text. There are some AI systems, like Gemini, that can in real time with your request reach out to the internet and retrieve whatever it finds to support its AI based answer to your query. This is known as RAG. The New York Times is not a trusted entity in any field, but certainly not computer science.

[@ariesmarsexpress]

@@gaiustacitus4242 Raw AI generated content is not eligible for copyright protection inside the *United States. However, that does not mean that because a work contained at some point raw AI content that it can't be eligible. It is a subtle, but massively important difference. Think of that raw content as a blank canvas. As an artist or author, you cannot copyright a blank canvas. But, every significant creative change the author or artist makes to that canvas moves it further towards being eligible. *In much of the world outside the United States, it is eligible for copyright