Full Beginners Guide to Writing Books With AI

0:00Hello everyone and welcome to the Nerdy

0:02Novelist. I feel so grateful to be here

0:04with you right now because what you are

0:06about to see has never been done before

0:08in the YouTube space. This course has

0:10been in production for months now and I

0:12have spent literally thousands of

0:13dollars to put this in front of you.

0:15This course is several hours of content

0:17teaching you everything that I've

0:18learned over the last 3 years of doing

0:20YouTube on the topic of AI for creative

0:23writing. Before that, I was the lead

0:24content manager for 3 years at

0:26Kindlepreneur, the leading online

0:28website for authors who want to write

0:30and self-publish their books. And before

0:32that, I wrote 14 books the traditional

0:34way. So, unlike a lot of tech bros on

0:37YouTube who have clearly never written a

0:39book in their life, I actually have

0:40experience with the process with and

0:43without AI. And I'm going to show you

0:44exactly how I would write with AI in a

0:46way that completely preserves your

0:48voice, your creativity, and quality

0:50storytelling, all while making the

0:52process far less likely to burn you out

0:54than the traditional method. And in this

0:56course, [music] I'm not holding anything

0:57back. I'm showing you my methods that

0:59have allowed me to write a book in as

1:01little as 4 days. And I'm not just

1:03talking about some random story that AI

1:05makes up. This was an actual story I had

1:07had in my head for years, finally

1:10envisioned in under a week. I know it's

1:11hard to place value on something that

1:13you get for free, and that's why no one

1:15has done this before in my niche. Not

1:17only is this a full course explaining

1:19every part of the writing process, and

1:21I'm not just teaching you, I'm actually

1:22going through the entire process with

1:24you step-by-step. And I'll even show you

1:26how to get your book edited, formatted,

1:29and published. So, here is what you will

1:31learn in this course. I'll show you the

1:32entire strategy I use to build a book

1:35from scratch, just like I did in 4 days.

1:38I'll walk you through the most important

1:39parts of AI writing, like how to

1:41maintain your voice and how to make sure

1:43the output is yours. Most people think

1:46that writing with AI is just slop, but

1:48that's really when you don't know what

1:49you're doing and don't put any effort

1:52into your work. The point of using AI is

1:54not to avoid work. It's to work smarter.

1:57And if you follow my instructions, your

1:59work will be of genuine quality, not AI

2:01slop. I also show you how we select a

2:03genre and optimize our book to ensure

2:06that readers are likely to want to read

2:07our book. And I'll also show you how we

2:09build our book bibles to ensure the AI

2:11has everything it needs to write an

2:13original book. So, I hope you can see

2:15the amount of value that you're about to

2:16receive in this course. And I'll be

2:18real, a lot of you will go through this

2:20and not see the true value because you

2:22were able to just watch the video for

2:24free with no resistance. This is the

2:27exact reason why nobody is making free

2:29courses that are this in-depth. It is so

2:31easy for you to brush this off as not

2:34having much value because you didn't

2:35have to pay for it. But, I can genuinely

2:38promise you that every single person who

2:40goes through this course is going to

2:42have every piece of information that

2:43they need to write their first book, as

2:45well as their second book, or the third

2:47book, you name it. I'm serious. This

2:48course is a step-by-step blueprint to

2:51growing your author business, and we

2:53cover everything from mindset to final

2:55publishing. So, if you want to write a

2:56book quickly and effectively without

2:59sacrificing quality, there really is no

3:01better place you could be than inside

3:03this free course. But, I will be

3:04completely real with you guys. This

3:06course has a lot of information. And if

3:08you follow it all the way through and

3:10follow every piece of advice, this will

3:12be a big challenge in your life. In

3:15module one, we're going to tackle the

3:16part most authors skip, and it's exactly

3:18why they burn out. We'll talk about the

3:20difference between chasing quick money

3:23versus mastering your craft, and I'll

3:25show you how my own write 14 books then

3:27crash and burn phase almost killed my

3:29writing career. You'll also see how

3:30focusing on the wrong metrics destroyed

3:33my motivation and how shifting my

3:34definition of success brought me back to

3:36writing with more clarity and less

3:38pressure. Then, we'll dig into abundance

3:40versus scarcity mindset for authors, and

3:42I'll give you concrete examples of how

3:43each one shows up in self-publishing.

3:45Things like the market is saturated, or

3:47if that author wins, I lose. From there,

3:49we'll zoom out and treat your writing as

3:51a real business. What it actually means

3:53to invest time and money into tools,

3:55education, and systems, and how those

3:57investments compound over years of

3:58publishing, and not just with one book

4:00launch. And yes, we'll address the

4:01elephant in the room, using AI without

4:04shame as a way to offload the parts of

4:05the business that drain you, so you can

4:07double down on what you genuinely love.

4:09By the end of this first module, you'll

4:11have a practical mindset framework for a

4:13storytelling driven business, one that

4:15keeps you out of burnout, gives you

4:17permission to use AI strategically, and

4:19positions you to build a long-term

4:21catalog instead of betting everything on

4:23one perfect book. Module two is where we

4:25get tactical, and I give you a

4:27customized tool stack instead of a mess

4:29of random apps. You'll come out knowing

4:31exactly which tool is best if you are a

4:33total beginner, which option makes the

4:35most sense when you want to automate and

4:37scale like a power user, and which

4:39middle ground system gives you the most

4:42control without requiring you to be

4:44super technical. By the end of this

4:46module, you'll have a setup that matches

4:48your skill level and goals, and you'll

4:50know how to use it to support every

4:52other step in your writing and

4:53publishing process. And these are

4:55literally the exact tools that I use in

4:57my own author business and teach to my

4:59members. By the end of module three,

5:01you'll never sit down to plot from

5:03scratch again. Instead, you'll have

5:04genre-specific story templates that turn

5:06vague ideas into clear, repeatable

5:08structures designed to sell. You'll know

5:10how to choose the right niche for a book

5:12idea, how to lock in the aspects that

5:14readers expect, and how to build a

5:16framework that prevents generic AI slot

5:18plots. The result is that every story

5:20you create after this module starts with

5:22a solid skeleton tailored to your genre,

5:24which makes everything else so much

5:26easier. Module four gives you a

5:27repeatable brainstorming system that

5:29produces commercially viable story ideas

5:32instead of random concepts you're not

5:34sure anyone wants. You'll learn how to

5:36turn genre research into concrete plot

5:38hooks, as well as tropes and setting

5:40that align with real reader demand, and

5:42how to use that to generate story

5:44material that feels fresh, but still

5:46familiar enough to sell. By the end of

5:47this module, you'll have a complete

5:49story dossier filled with market-aware

5:51ideas, so that when you move forward,

5:53you have the best chance for success. In

5:55module five, you'll discover the ability

5:58to create characters and worlds that

6:00readers genuinely remember and talk

6:02about. You'll come away with a clear

6:03process for turning rough character

6:05sketches into multi-layered people with

6:07goals and flaws and arcs, and for

6:09building settings that feel lived in

6:11instead of just broad and generic.

6:12You'll end up with a cast in a world

6:14that naturally generate conflict, making

6:16your plot more engaging and your book

6:18far more likely to turn casual readers

6:20into dedicated fans. Module six gives

6:22you a flexible blueprint for your book,

6:24a clear beginning, middle, and end, plus

6:26key turning points and subplots, all

6:28aligned with your genre templates from

6:30earlier. The outcome is that you always

6:32know what happens next when you sit down

6:34to write without feeling locked into a

6:36rigid plan, so that you reduce writer's

6:38block and keep your story on track. By

6:40the end of module seven, you'll have a

6:41streamlined approach to drafting

6:43chapters that balance speed with

6:45quality. You'll know how to break your

6:46book into manageable chunks, how to use

6:48AI to accelerate the drafting, and how

6:50to keep your voice and intent intact

6:53throughout the entire process. Because

6:55of this, the actual prose will become

6:56the fastest and most predictable part of

6:58your workflow, something that you can do

7:00consistently. Module eight turns editing

7:02from a vague make-it-better phase into a

7:04clear step-by-step upgrade path for your

7:07manuscript. You'll learn how to spot and

7:08fix the most common issues introduced by

7:10AI-assisted writing, and you'll learn

7:12how to tighten your prose, you'll learn

7:15how to all of the different layers of

7:17editing to polish that book, and you'll

7:18get a practical editing routine that you

7:21can repeat for each project that saves

7:22you a whole lot of both money and time.

7:25In module nine, you'll end up with a

7:27finished book that looks like it belongs

7:28on the shelf next to your favorite

7:30authors, and not in some sort of

7:31homemade experiment category. You'll

7:33understand what makes a cover actually

7:35sell, how to ensure your cover matches

7:37your genre's visual language, and how to

7:39format your book so it's easy and

7:40enjoyable to read in both ebook and

7:43print. The result is a package that

7:44converts, aka more trust from readers

7:46who are seeing you for the first time.

7:48And finally, by the end of module 10,

7:50the last module in this course, you'll

7:52know how to get your book out into the

7:53real world with a strategy that matches

7:55where you are in your career. You'll

7:57learn the pros and cons of sticking with

7:58the biggest retailers versus going wide,

8:01what exclusivity really means for your

8:02income, and when it makes sense to move

8:05into more advanced options like selling

8:07direct from your own store. I'll also

8:09show you exactly what to do to publish

8:10that first book and get the finished

8:12version in your hands. So, that's what

8:13makes up this course, and there will be

8:15chapters so you can go through this

8:17course at your own pace and skip the

8:19ones that aren't relevant to you. But, I

8:21want to quickly talk about how you can

8:22get more direct access to me through my

8:24school community if you are interested.

8:26If you want someone to hold your hand

8:28through the entire process, we hold

8:30weekly coaching calls to do just that.

8:32The membership also comes with a full

8:33step-by-step guide to write your book,

8:35and we just recently launched Story

8:37Hacker OS, which is our own proprietary

8:39AI software that is tailored to our

8:41methods and workflows so that you can

8:42write far more efficiently than you

8:44could even with the other tools that

8:45I'll be showing you today. But, most

8:48importantly, this is a place where you

8:49can be with the other authors, people

8:51who are on the same path as you, trying

8:54to write their books, and people who

8:56share your common interests, and people

8:58who understand how isolating the writing

8:59process can be, and want to form genuine

9:02connections with other creators and grow

9:04together. I can speak firsthand, when I

9:06was starting publishing in 2018, it was

9:08just me in my room typing for hours and

9:10hours until I eventually burned out.

9:12None of my friends understood what I was

9:14doing, and often times I would get up at

9:164:00 a.m. just to get an hour of writing

9:18in while still working my day job, which

9:19naturally killed my evening social life.

9:22So, not only is this school community a

9:24place where you have direct access to me

9:26and my team to ask specific questions

9:28about your book and make sure you're on

9:29the correct path, but it's also a place

9:31where you can meet other authors that

9:33understand you. And that's what this

9:34community was built for. But, I'm going

9:36to leave things there, and if you're

9:37interested in getting a one-on-one

9:39connection with me and a community of

9:40like-minded people, then you can learn

9:42more through the first link in this

9:43video's description. I hope it becomes

9:45evident as you watch this course that

9:47you can feel my intentions for making

9:49this for you. Seven years ago, I burned

9:51out hard when trying to go through the

9:52traditional writing and self-publishing

9:54process. In a few years, I wrote 14

9:57books, but at a huge cost. Discovering

9:59the technology and the techniques that

10:01I'm going to show you in this course is

10:03what got me out of creative burnout and

10:05enjoying the writing process again. And

10:07that is what I want for all of you,

10:09whether you're just getting started or

10:11you're an experienced author already. If

10:14I had this information when I first

10:15started, then I would be way further

10:17ahead than I currently am and would

10:19never have burned out in the first

10:20place. And the results are already

10:22showing. For example, this person is now

10:24making multiple five figures a month

10:26from their books. And this person even

10:28got a huge promotion just from the

10:30technical advancements that they gained

10:31by learning in my community. And we have

10:33literally hundreds of authors so far who

10:35have already completed a full book in a

10:37month, one that matches their vision and

10:39avoids burnout. Understanding how AI can

10:41integrate with your human creativity is

10:43the biggest advantage that any creator

10:46can have, and I feel blessed that I'm

10:47able to share my knowledge with you.

10:49With that said, I want to thank you for

10:50this opportunity again, and it's time to

10:52take you through the first steps into

10:53this program. Once you complete this

10:55full video, follow the first link in the

10:57description below, and I will see you

10:58inside. Now, let's get in to module one.

11:02For this first module, we absolutely

11:04must talk about mindset. And yeah, I

11:07know, I can hear you rolling your eyes

11:08right now, but hear me out because this

11:10is absolutely the difference between

11:13those authors who succeed and those who

11:16fail. You can skip any of the modules in

11:18this full course, but do not skip this

11:20one. It is probably the most important

11:22one. Now, when I was first getting into

11:24writing and self-publishing, I was not

11:26in a good place financially. I lived in

11:28central Maryland, which is one of the

11:30worst places to live if you're trying to

11:32save money. And my salary was barely

11:34able to support a teeny tiny studio

11:36apartment above a friend's garage where

11:39I lived with my wife and my first

11:41daughter when she was born. So, when I

11:42tell you I was motivated to make this

11:44work, I really was. I started to hustle

11:47and I started to grind and over the

11:49course of about 2 years, I wrote 14

11:52books. And this wasn't with AI, this was

11:54the traditional way. And my first book

11:56series actually did pretty well. I made

11:58a thousand in my first month and I was

12:00really encouraged after the rest of that

12:02series went out. So, I started making

12:03fairly consistent sales, but I, like

12:06many of the people in self-publishing at

12:08that time, knew that self-publishing was

12:10a numbers game. You had to get up a

12:11backlog in order to make a lot of money

12:14with books. Not just because every book

12:16provides an additional opportunity to

12:18make money, but because you also improve

12:20a lot as a writer every book you

12:22produce. So, once I finished my first

12:24series, which was eight books long, I

12:26started on my second. By that time, I

12:28had started working on the third book in

12:30that series, I released the first two

12:32and crickets. It did nothing. I even

12:34spent a thousand dollars and only

12:36received five hundred dollars in sales.

12:38And I had to take out a loan for that

12:40thousand dollars in the first place. I

12:42was absolutely devastated and this whole

12:44process ended up killing all motivation

12:46that I had to write for years to come,

12:49becoming the worst case of burnout that

12:51I have ever had. And I was so sure that

12:53this one was going to work. Everything I

12:55had learned from writing my first

12:56series, I was going to put it into the

12:57second and when it just didn't work, it

13:00drew everything out of me. Now,

13:02thankfully, there was a light at the end

13:04of the tunnel because I later went on to

13:06work for 3 years at Kindlepreneur and

13:08all of that study of self-publishing and

13:10writing had eventually worked in my

13:12favor to make me the perfect candidate

13:14for that job. But, I still found it

13:16incredibly difficult to write. And to be

13:18honest, I wasn't a big fan of the

13:20writing process, either. It didn't feel

13:22like it the creative part to me. In

13:24fact, there are many authors that say

13:26the same thing. They will say that the

13:27creative part is more in the planning

13:29and the outlining in the editing process

13:32where you shape it into something truly

13:33good. You've probably heard the term

13:35writing is rewriting which was coined by

13:37Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic

13:39Park. Now, I myself found a lot more joy

13:41in the outlining process and coming up

13:43with the worlds. [music] That to me was

13:46the creative part that led to that

13:47coveted flow state that I craved so

13:50much. And I never stopped doing that

13:52even when I was burnt out shaping these

13:54worlds and enjoying that that part of

13:55it. The only thing I stopped doing was

13:57the actual butt in chair, hands on

13:59keyboard, mechanical typing part of it.

14:01So, there are two main lessons that I

14:03got from this experience that I want to

14:05share with you today regarding mindset.

14:06The first is that you need to be focused

14:08on the right things. The main reason I

14:10burnt out is because I was focused on

14:12money. Had I instead been focusing on

14:14improving my craft or flushing out my

14:16worlds, perhaps I would have felt

14:18differently about the whole ordeal

14:19because those factors were more in my

14:22control. The fact that I was focused on

14:23money which is outside my control, at

14:26least outside my direct control, that

14:28meant my feelings of accomplishment were

14:30contingent on an external factor. So, as

14:33we go into this course, I recommend not

14:35focusing so much on the money. Money is

14:37definitely important, but I would go

14:38into this assuming that you're not going

14:40to make money for a while until you've

14:42truly mastered the craft and until you

14:44have a lot of high rated books out. And

14:46it can take some time to get there and

14:48you will need to be willing to do this.

14:50And I say this not just as an AI writer,

14:52but as a writer in general, it's going

14:54to take time. The chances of a one-hit

14:56wonder are almost zero. Now, the people

14:58who succeed at this have been doing it

15:00for a long time. That means you need to

15:02do this as well. Even if you're using

15:04AI, there is a lot you need to learn

15:07about craft and story and structure and

15:09character arts, you name it. So, if you

15:12focus instead on becoming a master

15:13storyteller, then every time you craft a

15:16story, you are going to be succeeding in

15:18that goal. Whereas if you focus on the

15:20the there is a good chance that you

15:22won't be succeeding on that goal for

15:23potentially years to come. And there's

15:25no faster path to burnout than not

15:27succeeding at what you perceive to be

15:30success. All you have to do is redefine

15:32your definition of success and you can

15:33avoid burnout. The second lesson I want

15:35to share that I got from my burnout

15:37experience is this. Focus more on those

15:40things that light you up. In any small

15:42business, you are going to have to do

15:44some things that you find unpleasant and

15:46that's just part of it. But the more of

15:47these things that you can eliminate or

15:49outsource to other people the better.

15:50And AI has made this so much easier

15:53since its explosion onto the landscape.

15:55I know some writing purists are going to

15:57get really mad to hear me say this, but

15:59I don't and never really did like the

16:02actual writing process. [music] And I

16:04mean the butt-in-chair typing on the

16:06keyboard part of the creative process.

16:08And writing, especially creative

16:09writing, is a lot more than just one

16:12step. It includes, but is not limited

16:13to, brainstorming, character

16:15development, plotting, outlining,

16:17research, and staring at a blank window,

16:19working with a developmental editor,

16:21working with a line editor, working with

16:23a proofreader, getting your book cover

16:24designed, understanding genre and

16:26markets, understanding tropes and what

16:28readers actually want, learning to

16:30market your books, which yes, is a

16:31creative process in its own way. And

16:33there could be many more specific to the

16:35type of books you want to write. For

16:36instance, because a lot of my books are

16:38set in Arthurian England, I've had a

16:39blast just researching that era and all

16:41of the different myths and legends

16:43associated with it. My point is, writing

16:45is a multi-step process. And if we want

16:47to consider this like a business, we

16:49absolutely must focus on those things

16:51that interest us the most or that we are

16:53the most skilled at so that we can spend

16:55as much time doing those things as

16:57possible. Everything else, we should

16:59find ways to lessen the amount of work

17:01we have to do in whatever way we can,

17:03whether that's eliminating it entirely,

17:05sometimes there are things we just don't

17:06need that maybe we thought we did, or

17:09outsourcing it to another person, or

17:11outsourcing it to AI. For this course, I

17:13will be showing you how to use AI at

17:15practically every step of the process,

17:17but you definitely do not have to use it

17:20for every step. Instead, use it for that

17:22area that you dislike the most, the part

17:24that if you had to do it over and over

17:26and over again might burn you out over

17:27time. Now, lastly, before we get into

17:29our next module, I want to mention two

17:31other mindset shifts that are going to

17:33be the difference between success and

17:35failure in a storytelling driven

17:38business. The first is that you do need

17:40to treat this like a business. Now, I'm

17:42absolutely fine if you just want to

17:44write a book for your kids or your

17:45grandkids or even for yourself, but I

17:48would not expect that to sell. And it's

17:49also totally fine if you want to treat

17:51this as a hobby. More power to you. But,

17:53if we want to be able to continue to

17:55create art of any kind in a way that

17:57allows us to work on it full-time, we

17:59must get paid eventually. I know I said

18:01earlier that we don't want to focus on

18:03the money, and we don't. We want to

18:04focus on growth because growth will lead

18:06to money. But, we can't kid ourselves

18:08and say that we can do this full-time

18:10without having some kind of income. Keep

18:12in mind that success isn't always the

18:13road we planned from the start, but at

18:15some point we must get an income from

18:17our efforts, otherwise we'll be forced

18:19to continue with these hobbies as just

18:21that, a hobby. You must treat this like

18:23a business, and a big part of that is

18:24learning about investments. And I'm not

18:26talking about investing in the stock

18:28market or anything like that. I'm

18:29talking about investing in yourself and

18:31in the business. [music] A lot of people

18:32look at what it costs to create a

18:34business. And while it is important to

18:36be frugal, especially early on when

18:38you're starting a business, [music] and

18:39to do much of the work yourself, doing

18:41things that free up your time to work on

18:43that which you're best at, or spending

18:44money on education to give you the best

18:46possible start to your journey, all of

18:48that could be considered an investment.

18:50For instance, I recently invested $8,000

18:52of my own money into an organization

18:54that would help me identify good YouTube

18:56video topics to target. And that may

18:58sound like a lot for something so

19:00simple. But, already I've seen huge

19:02returns from that investment, and you

19:05have two things to invest, money and

19:07time. Which one you invest will depend

19:09on which one you have more of. But, the

19:11idea of investing is this: you put in

19:14the time or the money and hopefully by

19:16doing those things you get returns that

19:18are greater than what you put into it.

19:21But, creating a business will require

19:22investment and that is very important.

19:24Now, the second mindset shift that I

19:26want to hammer home for you is the

19:27difference between an abundance and a

19:29scarcity mindset. A scarcity mindset is

19:32a habitual focus on what you don't have,

19:35combined with the belief that resources

19:37and opportunities or success are limited

19:39so that other people's wins feels like

19:41your loss. On the other hand, an

19:43abundance mindset is a belief that there

19:45are enough resources and opportunities

19:47for everyone and that you can create

19:48more value through learning and

19:50collaboration and experimentation. This

19:52is one of the core issues that plague

19:54most authors. Common scarcity thoughts

19:56for aspiring authors include the market

19:59is saturated so no one will ever find my

20:01book. Or, if that author in my niche

20:02succeeds, they're taking my readers. Or,

20:05I can't invest in covers, editing, or

20:07ads until I'm already making money. I

20:08only get one shot with this book. If it

20:10doesn't blow up, I've failed. That was

20:12my biggest mindset issue early on. Now,

20:14psychologically a scarcity mindset

20:16narrows your attention, pushes people

20:18into high-stakes thinking, and triggers

20:20anxiety and avoidance behaviors. And

20:22it's just not pleasant. Now, most

20:23successful entrepreneurs that I know

20:25have an abundance mindset. Now, this

20:26idea is that there's more than enough

20:28and that we actually create value

20:30instead of using it up. An abundance

20:32mindset doesn't pretend that resources

20:34are infinite, but it does focus on

20:36opportunities and levers that you

20:38control. For authors, that sounds like

20:40this: There are always more readers

20:41entering my genre and I can reach them

20:43over time with multiple books. Other

20:45authors' success proves that there's

20:46demand, so we can cross-pollinate

20:48audiences. Every dollar I invest, when I

20:51can afford it, is a test of return on

20:53investment, not a permanent loss. Or,

20:55this book is one step in a long-term

20:57catalog. Even a failed launch gives data

20:59that I can use later. Abundance thinking

21:01invites experimentation as well as

21:03long-term strategy and collaboration

21:06instead of perfectionism or jealousy or

21:08isolation. It also helps you become an

21:10opportunity seeker, making you far more

21:12likely to spot opportunities when those

21:14with a scarcity mindset would simply

21:16brush them off. This is why those who

21:18have an abundance and a growth mindset

21:19actually are proven in studies to be

21:22luckier compared to those without. Now,

21:24if this sounds like a lot, don't worry.

21:25These are mindsets that can be worked on

21:27over time. You are not stuck with the

21:29mindset that you currently enjoy. And if

21:32you want tips on ways to improve your

21:34mindset, you're already doing one of

21:35them, which is taking action and

21:37learning from videos like this one. I

21:39also strongly recommend a daily

21:40meditation practice, a daily movement

21:43practice of some kind, and a daily

21:45reading practice of books from other

21:46successful people in any field,

21:48honestly. So, now that we have that all

21:50out of the way, let's move into the

21:52actual practice of writing with AI,

21:54starting with an overview of all of the

21:57tools that we are going to use for the

21:59rest of this course. All right, so let's

22:01talk about the tools we will need for

22:03this entire process. Now, in the past, I

22:05have recommended having two tools. One

22:07simple chatbot as a kind of catch-all

22:09for everything else that you would need,

22:11and one writing-specific tool, which

22:13allows you to have a workflow that's

22:15kind of tailored to writing-specific.

22:17And in the past, you may have heard me

22:18talk about several of these

22:20writing-specific tools. Notably, there

22:21are three that I've talked about before.

22:23One is called Raptor Write, one is Novel

22:25Crafter, and one is called Sudowrite. As

22:28AI has advanced, I've found that my

22:30needs have changed kind of a lot, and

22:32today I will be showing you three tools,

22:34uh but you really need to only have one

22:36of them. Although, it can be useful to

22:37have more. I will show you one tool

22:39that's good for beginners, one that's

22:41good for advanced AI users, and one

22:43that's kind of in the middle. So, let's

22:45start with the tool that I believe to be

22:47the best for beginners, and that is

22:49Claude. So, Claude, if you haven't heard

22:51of it, is very similar to ChatGPT, which

22:53you probably have heard of, but it's

22:55actually far better for writers

22:57specifically and in a lot of other

22:59industries, too. I know coders use it

23:01dominantly. It's just one of the best

23:03ones out there. And right now there's a

23:05free tier. There is a This one says $17,

23:08but I believe that's uh if you're doing

23:11the annual subscription. Uh yeah, it

23:13says $20 if billed monthly. And there is

23:15a max plan, which is $100 a month, which

23:18gives you more usage. And uh generally

23:20I'm on the pro plan. Uh it's usually

23:23enough for my needs. Uh although quite a

23:25lot of it is available on the free plan.

23:27Just understand that the problem with

23:29the free plan is that they're going to

23:30throttle you very quickly. Meaning as

23:32you're using it, they're going to say

23:33you've come to the end of your usage

23:35limits. You have to come back in a

23:36couple of hours or something like that.

23:38And that happens on every plan, but it

23:40will happen more frequently with the

23:42free plan. And with the pro you get a

23:44little bit more usage. And with the max

23:46you get even more usage. But for max it

23:49says five or 20 times more usage than

23:52pro. Uh the reason why it says five or

23:5520 and it doesn't actually get specific

23:57is cuz it kind of depends on which model

23:59you're using and how much thinking it's

24:01doing and different things like that.

24:03There's a lot that goes into it. But you

24:04can still get most of the features on

24:06the free plan. But generally if you use

24:08it frequently enough, I would say at

24:10least go to the pro plan. So once you've

24:11signed up for Claude, it'll look

24:13something like this. One of the things I

24:14love about Claude is that it has a very

24:16nice clean interface. And let me just

24:19give you a brief tour around this whole

24:21thing. So first of all, uh you have your

24:24your main chat window here. Right here

24:26is where you enter in your your text to

24:29chat with Claude. Right here is where

24:30you can add things. So you can add files

24:33or photos. And it is able to read the

24:36contents of a photo and stuff like that.

24:38There's a something that says add to

24:39project, which is another feature I will

24:41show you in a second. You can also add

24:43skills, which is another feature I will

24:44show you in a second. Uh there are other

24:46connectors and things that you can

24:47connect to this. Most of which are not

24:50really needed. Uh there's a research

24:52mode if you want to do more in-depth

24:53research. And I highly recommend that as

24:56a research tool for authors. If there's

24:58anything you want to research about your

25:00book or anything like that, the research

25:01function can be excellent. Uh there's

25:03also web search, which is turned on by

25:05default, [music] which is allows it to

25:07be able to browse the web and find

25:09different things. Over here, we've got

25:11this right here that currently says Opus

25:134.8. This is the model that you are

25:15selecting, and Claude has multiple

25:17models that vary in intensity. For

25:20instance, there is the Haiku model. This

25:22one is fastest. If you use Haiku, you'll

25:25have more usage, right? Uh because it's

25:27less expensive. Then in the middle,

25:28we've got Sonnet, 4.6 at the moment. If

25:31you're watching this in the future, you

25:32might see different models here, but

25:34generally they fall into these families

25:35of Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus. And uh as

25:38I'm recording this, they recently

25:39released Fable 5, but that's currently

25:41unavailable. So, uh these are the

25:43different models you can select. Again,

25:44Haiku is the simplest, and it's not

25:47going to be as powerful, but you will

25:48get more usage out of it, and then they

25:50go up in order from there. There's also

25:52this feature that says effort. And uh

25:55you can select how much effort you need.

25:56Again, the more effort that you put into

25:59your chat, the more will use up your

26:02credits, the amount of usage that you

26:04get through Claude. What this does is

26:06this essentially increases the amount of

26:08thinking time that you get out of these

26:10models. So, one of the things you can do

26:12that can actually be a good way of kind

26:15of balancing the your credit usage, you

26:18actually use a model like Haiku, which

26:19is very inexpensive. Now, beyond this,

26:22uh beyond effort, which by the way is

26:24only available for these higher models.

26:27It's not available for Haiku. Uh if you

26:28select Haiku, it will show you something

26:30different. It says extended, so it's

26:31using deeper reasoning, but you can't

26:33tell it how much of deep reasoning to

26:35do. Below that, there's also more models

26:37here, some past models that aren't as

26:39good, uh but they are available there if

26:41you want to use them. Next to this, we

26:43have this little icon, which allows you

26:46to record. And so, if I use this and

26:48say,

26:50"Hey Claude, I would just like to say

26:51you're looking fine today. And then it

26:54will just transcribe what I just said.

26:56This could be a really good way if you

26:57have really long prompts or you're

26:59trying to describe something that's very

27:00lengthy, it can often just be way easier

27:03to turn this on and input your prompt

27:05there. Related to this but not the same

27:07is voice mode. So voice mode is if you

27:09want to have more of a conversation with

27:11the AI rather than actually transcribing

27:15what you say, this will allow you to

27:16actually have a back and forth

27:17conversation. It's not as good as the

27:19same feature other AI models. The voice

27:21itself kind of sounds very robotic and

27:24everything, but it is available there

27:26and it can be really useful especially

27:28at the brainstorming phase where you

27:30kind of want to have that back and

27:31forth. I will even sometimes just sit

27:33back in my chair and just kind of be

27:35thinking about things while I'm having

27:37this conversation, right? So that's

27:38another option for you there. I don't

27:41use it for everything, but it can be

27:42useful in certain use cases. Below this

27:44you'll see all of these buttons here.

27:46Each of these give you basically just

27:48suggestions. I don't typically use any

27:50of these, but some of them can be

27:51useful. For instance, under learning you

27:54could say things like find the best

27:56books on a certain subject or create a

27:58curriculum inspired by my favorite

27:59cultural movement. Or under life stuff,

28:01you could have something like plan

28:04educational pursuits or something like

28:05that. But these are just kind of

28:06starters to get you started and they

28:08don't remain the same. So if I were to

28:11click away and come back, it would

28:12probably be something else. So that is

28:14just the main home screen here for

28:16Claude. Let's go over here on the side

28:18and over here you will see a couple of

28:21additional things. Here's where you

28:23start a new chat. Here's where you find

28:25a record of all your chats. And then

28:27here's a little something called

28:28projects. And we're going to be using

28:29projects a lot in this full course. This

28:31allows you to have you can think of it

28:33as kind of a specific employee. Like

28:35think of it as a employee that does one

28:38very specific task. And what you do here

28:41if you want to create a new project is

28:42you select new project, you give it a

28:43name, you know, we'll just call this one

28:46test project. You don't have to give it

28:47a description of what it is and then

28:49just say create project. And this allows

28:51you to pull in here. You can pull in any

28:53files. So, anytime you have a lot of

28:55files that you want the AI to have

28:58access to, you can put these in a

29:01project. So, it will anytime you do a

29:03chat inside of this project, it will

29:05have access to those files. So, you

29:07could upload any any files from a

29:09device. You can also just say add text

29:11content, copy paste your stuff in here.

29:13And then there's also instructions. So,

29:15instructions, this is just a space where

29:18you can tell it specific instruction on

29:20what you want it to do. So, if we were

29:22to create a very simple type of

29:25instructions here, you could say

29:26something like, "Anytime I give you a

29:29long article, I want you to summarize it

29:31in one paragraph." All right, so I put

29:33that in here and save the instructions.

29:35And now, anytime I come here into the

29:37chat window, all I have to do is input

29:39my article here and it will summarize it

29:41in one paragraph. Okay, that's an

29:43example of what projects do. And they're

29:46pretty important for a lot of the tasks

29:49that we're going to go through here in

29:50this course. So, I'm going to go ahead

29:51and delete this test project. Now, over

29:53here we have something called artifacts.

29:55Occasionally, as you're working with the

29:57chat, it will spin off a specific, call

30:00it a document. I think documents makes

30:02more sense than artifacts. For instance,

30:05I was working on an outline for a book

30:06and it gave me this document here. This

30:08document is editable and you can

30:10actually ask for specific feedback and

30:13it will go through and kind of mark this

30:14up and things like that. So, think of it

30:16as a as a specific document that is

30:18within your chat that you can modify

30:21with the AI. Underneath that is

30:23customize. So, customize just allows you

30:26to add There's a lot you can do here,

30:28okay? So, this is one of the areas where

30:30I'm not going to go into too much depth

30:32because it's not necessary to be able to

30:35write a book in Claude. But, there are

30:36lots of things that you can do here to

30:38make your life a little bit easier.

30:39Notably, you can connect your apps. So,

30:41there's a bunch of apps and tools that

30:44it can connect specifically to. Some of

30:46these that are very useful are things

30:47like Canva, right? Or Notion, if you use

30:50Notion, or Slack. And of course, you got

30:51Gmail, Google Drive, Zoom. A lot of

30:53these things can be connected directly.

30:55And therefore, you can use Claude to

30:58have certain functionalities within

31:00these apps, right? So, these can be very

31:01useful, but again, a little bit outside

31:03the scope of what we're doing today. So,

31:05that's just one option there.

31:06Additionally, there are plugins, and

31:08some of these were created by Anthropic,

31:10some are created by other AI or other

31:13tools out there in order to have

31:15specific things that they do within

31:17within Claude. Some of these are useful,

31:19some of them depends on what industry

31:21you're in. Like for instance, if you're

31:23into design for apps and stuff like

31:26that, Figma might be a useful one to

31:28integrate. Or Airtable, if you're doing

31:30database stuff. You know, lots of these

31:31things can be useful, but once again,

31:34this is a little out of the scope of

31:35what we're trying to do today. Last but

31:37not least is skills. So, skills are

31:40actually function kind of similar to the

31:42instructions in a project. They are You

31:44can think of them as little autonomous

31:46agents that do specific things, and you

31:48can call them in to do those specific

31:51things whenever you want them. And in a

31:52lot of ways, you can use skills in the

31:53same way that we're going to be using

31:55projects. And I'll show you how to do

31:56both later in the course, because skills

31:59can be really useful. I particularly

32:00find them useful for things like editing

32:03and modifying your documents to sound

32:05more like you, that sort of thing. So,

32:07here are some examples of skills that

32:08they have available here, but again,

32:10these are something we'll get into a

32:12little bit later. All right, so that's

32:13under customize. And you'll see the list

32:15of skills and connectors here. Now,

32:17going back to our left-hand side things

32:20here, you'll also see a list of all your

32:22past chats. And you can also minimize

32:24that if it's getting too much. But above

32:26that, you'll have this product section.

32:28You have code, code work, and design as

32:30I'm recording this. For Claude code and

32:32Claude code work, this is actually

32:34something I recommend authors maybe dig

32:36into a little bit because anytime you

32:37have want any sort of advanced

32:39functionality with Claude, these are the

32:41two you want to look at because there's

32:43a lot of potential for these two things.

32:45However, they are not necessary again,

32:47they're kind of beyond the scope of what

32:48we're doing today, and you definitely

32:50don't have to use them. And if you click

32:52on one, like let's click on code, it

32:54will lead you to a download because in

32:57order to do this, you will need to have

32:59a desktop version for either your PC or

33:01your Mac, right? So, I've got it here

33:02Windows machine, so I can download it

33:04for Windows. And when I do that, it

33:06looks something like this. So, the chat

33:08looks very similar, like a pretty much

33:10everything that we had before is

33:11available in the chat in the desktop

33:13app, but the over here on the left,

33:15you'll see there's also co-work and

33:16code, which do things in a slightly

33:19different workflow. And I'm not going to

33:21get into these in full court because

33:22again, they're not necessary for the

33:24scope of what we're doing in writing a

33:26book with Claude. You don't need But

33:27they can be a more advanced way to to do

33:30The only reason I'm not going to show

33:31you is cuz I have another advanced tool

33:33that I'm going to show you next that I

33:35believe to be superior for the purposes

33:38of writing a book for a lot of reasons,

33:40but one of which is you can use other

33:42models besides Claude because that is

33:44the number one issue with using Claude

33:47is that you are limited to their models

33:49only. If we come here to the main chat,

33:51you have to select Opus, Sonnet, Haiku,

33:53maybe Fable, or one of their older

33:55models. You can't use a GPT model. You

33:58can't use a Gemini model. You can't use

34:00any of the open-source or local model

34:02inside of this work. And as great of a

34:04workflow as it is, sometimes certain

34:06models do better for certain things.

34:07Now, I tend to stick to Claude as my

34:09default chatbot generally because I find

34:12it to be one of the best in terms of

34:14writing, and it has long been one of the

34:16best for writing. Uh there are some

34:18other models that are getting a little

34:20bit better with pros and things like

34:21that because they're trained to be more

34:23conversational in that way. And Claude

34:25is also known to have a lot of the

34:27telltale signs of AI writing. That said,

34:30it's still one of the best for writing.

34:32You just have to clean up some of those

34:34tells. So, this is the main tool that

34:36we're going to be using for a lot of the

34:38processes. I'm going to show you how to

34:40use this and the other tools to go

34:42through each of the modules here. But,

34:43the nice thing about Claude is that it

34:45really requires very little setup. You

34:47can get started right away and it's very

34:49easy for beginners. In our next tool,

34:51I'm going to be showing you something

34:52called N8N. And N8N is a lot more

34:55advanced than what you see in Claude,

34:56but it can do a whole lot more and I

34:59think it can actually save authors a ton

35:02of time and actually get a lot of this

35:04done in a more efficient manner. So, I'm

35:06going to show you how to write a book

35:07from start to finish both of these tools

35:09as well as a third one that we'll get to

35:11next. But, before we get into the actual

35:13process, let's go over N8N just brief.

35:15N8N is a more advanced automation

35:18system. So, for instance, here is a

35:21example of a very basic automation that

35:23I've set up. Now, with Claude, you have

35:25to be chatting with it at every step of

35:27the way. Everything you do, you have to

35:29give it instructions. And [music] with

35:31an automation, there may be instances

35:34where you don't want to give it

35:35instructions until it's done a couple of

35:37things. So, in this case, there are a

35:39number of steps and it runs through all

35:41of those steps one by one so that I

35:43don't have to really look until it's

35:45finished what it's doing. N8N also

35:47integrates with the Google suite of

35:49tools and with Claude and with virtually

35:51all models that you can think of, which

35:53means you can use any model for any

35:56task, which there are many where Claude

35:58is not the best one to use. For

36:00instance, in this automation, if we go

36:01look at some of the models I'm using,

36:03for this one I'm using Gemini 3.1

36:05Flashlight at the time moment because in

36:07this case, I want a very inexpensive

36:10model for this particular step. So, what

36:12this automation does in a just a few

36:14steps is it creates a style sheet based

36:18on samples of your work. Very simple,

36:20that's all it does, not much to it.

36:22However, these can get far more

36:23advanced. Here is an example of another

36:26one that I use and I use this to help me

36:29create genre guide. And as you can tell,

36:32this is a very involved automation. It

36:35goes through this entire process and

36:37saves me so many hours of work. If I

36:40were to go through this process one step

36:42at a time, even if I'm using Claude or

36:44another AI chatbot, this would still

36:46take me hours. Whereas, all I have to do

36:48is give it a couple of documents that it

36:50needs to start out, hit a button, and it

36:52runs through the process while I go have

36:54lunch. This is why I'm even talking

36:55about N to N in a full course like this,

36:57even though it is kind of an advanced

36:59topic. It is still my favorite way of

37:01writing books and my favorite way of

37:03doing a lot of things besides writing

37:05books. Like I'll use this to generate

37:06marketing tools. I'll use it to clean

37:09book into a erotic hook or vice versa.

37:12I'll use it to do a bunch of things

37:14where, like for instance, I'll have like

37:16a whole book and let's say I want to

37:17convert that book into something a

37:20little bit different. Let's say a young

37:21reader edition of that book. I don't

37:23want to have to go through every single

37:25chapter in Claude and do it manually for

37:27everyone. I just want to like set it and

37:30have it go through the entire book step

37:32by step and it will it'll create the

37:34whole thing and I don't have to do

37:36anything. So, that's the kind of thing I

37:38like to use for N to N. It's a huge time

37:40saver for me and one of the most

37:41powerful ways of making book. Another

37:43way in which it's most powerful is that

37:44let's use Claude as a good example

37:46because Claude, [music] as I said, it's

37:47a very good writer, but it does have a

37:49lot of AI tells in its writing. So, what

37:52if you just took that writing into an

37:54automation then once it's finished

37:56writing, you pass it to another model

37:58and that model checks it to try and find

38:00all of those tells. And then from there,

38:02it makes a list of all of those tells

38:05and passes that on to another model that

38:07then looks at the original text, looks

38:09at the list of AI tells and it goes

38:11through and fixes them all for you. And

38:12it can do that automatically so that you

38:14don't even need to worry about it

38:16yourself. It can just do a lot of that

38:17heavy lifting for you. That's the power

38:19of automation, all right? So, now I'm

38:20going to teach you how to get started

38:23with n8n and how to get integrated with

38:26Google Drive, Google Docs, and other AI

38:29providers so that you can get models in

38:31here. And then I'm going to like walk

38:33you through what the process is of

38:34actually building a simple automation in

38:36n8n. This next part, I've actually

38:38already done a couple of videos on how

38:41to get set up with n8n and how to get

38:43your authentications for Google Drive

38:45and everything like that. It's the most

38:46technical part of this whole video. And

38:48since I already did some videos on it,

38:49I'm going to actually bring in a little

38:51footage from those videos because it's

38:53still relevant, still up-to-date. Uh

38:54this is the only time that I'm going to

38:56be bringing in footage from other

38:58videos. I promise everything else in

39:00this full course is completely original.

39:02But I feel like I might as well go to

39:04those videos because they're still

39:05perfectly relevant today. All right, for

39:07starters, this is n8n.io. This is the

39:10SaaS version or software as a service uh

39:13version of n8n. And it's okay. Like um

39:16there there's a lot it can do. This is

39:18probably, in terms of functionality, the

39:20most capable version because there are

39:23certain things you can do with it that

39:24are going to be a little bit more

39:25up-to-date. You're going to have a

39:26better support system, stuff like that.

39:28However, there's a big problem with this

39:30one and that is the pricing. So, if you

39:32look at monthly pricing, it's going to

39:34be at least $24 a month for the starter

39:37version. And honestly, if you're taking

39:40this stuff seriously, you'll probably

39:41actually need the pro version, which is

39:42$60 a month. Although you could probably

39:45get by with the starter. Uh but

39:47regardless, this is a very expensive

39:50option. And there are other options that

39:52are a little bit better for most

39:54authors. Uh that said, if you want to go

39:57with this, you just go ahead and click

39:59on the plan you want and say start a

40:01free trial. And then just walk through

40:02the steps. It's a regular normal sign-up

40:04process. I don't feel like I have to

40:06show it all to you. You just go through

40:08that process and then you'll be in n8n

40:11in no time and be able to get started.

40:13And the reason I would recommend this

40:15one is really only in a couple of use

40:18cases. The first is if you have the

40:20money and want probably the simplest,

40:23most seamless solution to get started

40:25with the least amount of tech involved,

40:28this is probably the best one. The other

40:31reason that I might suggest using this

40:33is if you have a really complex business

40:35where you need lots of people to be

40:38involved in the process, lots of admins,

40:41lots of people helping you build the

40:43automations and stuff like that. For

40:45really complex systems, you probably

40:47want something a little bit more robust

40:49like this. But that said, I really don't

40:51think that most authors are in that camp

40:53and most of us just want something that

40:56is cheap and affordable and will get the

40:58job done. So with that said, let's talk

41:00about the second option that we have

41:02available to us. And that second option

41:04is a hosting it locally on your actual

41:06computer. Now, the biggest advantage to

41:08this is obviously that it is actually

41:11free to do. There is no ongoing cost to

41:13hosting N8N on your computer. There are

41:15some disadvantages, however, to doing

41:17this. The first is it's kind of

41:18technical to set up. I'll walk you

41:20through it in a second. The second is

41:22that it is not an always-on system. What

41:25that means is if you have automations

41:27that need to run automatically at say

41:29like during the night or while you're

41:31out traveling or something like that, it

41:33can't do that if your computer is shut

41:34down. So your computer must be connected

41:37to the internet in order to interact

41:39with the internet in any kind of way,

41:41and that can just be a problem if you

41:43have things that need to be automated

41:46outside of, you know, you're actually

41:49using and interacting with it. For

41:51instance, I have some automations that

41:52go through my emails as they come in. If

41:54you had an automation like that or an

41:56automation that scans news items every

41:58day or something like that, if your

41:59computer was off, it would not be able

42:01to execute those things. And not just if

42:03your computer is off, but if the actual

42:05locally hosted version of N8N is not

42:08currently enabled, you're not going to

42:10be able to do that. There are also a

42:11couple of features that won't work on a

42:14locally hosted machine. The biggest one

42:16of these is webhook integration. You're

42:18not going to be able to have any kind of

42:20webhooks inside of your locally hosted

42:22machine. Now, I don't use webhooks a

42:24whole lot in my automations, but if you

42:26did and I could see circumstances where

42:29you would need that, it's definitely

42:30something that you would want a

42:33different solution rather than a locally

42:35hosted option. Another advantage though

42:37is that hosting locally is more private

42:41and secure. So, as long as you keep

42:43everything on your your actual system,

42:46you don't have to worry about your data

42:47getting into the hands of other people

42:48and stuff like that. Unlike the cloud

42:50solution, which basically you're you're

42:53putting all of your automations, your

42:55data, all of that is hosted in an a

42:57cloud system that you do not control.

42:59All right, so let's actually get this

43:01installed on your computer. The first

43:02thing you will need is a program called

43:04Docker Desktop. And here's the website

43:06here. I will make sure there's a link to

43:08this down below. All you need to do is

43:10come here. This is not something that

43:11you need to worry about pricing or

43:12anything. You just go come here to

43:14download Docker Desk- Desktop and you

43:16want to choose the one that is right for

43:18your computer. So, if you have an uh

43:19Mac, you would choose one of these. If

43:21you have a Windows, you choose one of

43:23these. If you have Linux, you can choose

43:24this one. For most of you, if you're on

43:26a PC, you're going to be using this one

43:28that says AMD 64 uh and you'll go ahead

43:31and download that. And then you simply

43:33install that program on your computer.

43:35And then once it's installed, it will

43:37ask you to close and restart your

43:38computer. So, go ahead and do that now.

43:40Now, once your Docker is installed, you

43:42just come and search for Docker and load

43:45it up. And it will ask you to set up an

43:47account, but you don't actually need

43:48this. So, you can just go ahead and and

43:51skip filling any information you have

43:52here or just skip it. All right, and

43:54once you're in, it'll look something

43:55like this. And over here on the left,

43:57you'll see a number of options here. You

43:59want to make sure to navigate to images

44:01and then say search images to run. And

44:03then from here, do a search on n8n. And

44:06this is the one that you want to run

44:07right here. From here, you want to

44:09select pull in order to download this

44:11image. All right, so our next step is

44:13that we want to create a container

44:15inside of Docker inside of this image.

44:17So, here you'll see this little play

44:18button right here that says run. Go

44:19ahead and click on that. And then it'll

44:21say run a new container and there are

44:23some optional settings here. I recommend

44:25giving it a name. You can't have spaces

44:27in this name, so make sure you use like

44:29an underscore or something like that.

44:31I'm just going to call this n8n [music]

44:33_test. And then give it a host port.

44:36Now, by default it it'll show 5678 over

44:39here. You can just use that number, 5678

44:42right there, and hit run. And once it's

44:44finished that, you go here to containers

44:47up in the left menu and you'll see it'll

44:49have a number here under ports. If you

44:52click on that number, it'll bring you to

44:55the setup to setup your account. And

44:58here you just set enter in your email,

45:00your first name, last name, and password

45:02and you will be into n8n. So, that is

45:05everything that that you need to know.

45:06Now, if you walk through these steps

45:08exactly like I've shown it to you and

45:10it's not working like I like it works

45:13for me, Perplexity is your friend. Use

45:15Perplexity or any other search-based AI

45:18tool and say like that you're trying to

45:20set up n8n locally and explain the

45:22problem that you're running into.

45:24There's a very good chance it will be

45:25able to help you troubleshoot the issue.

45:27All right, so let's talk now about the

45:29third option. This is the actual option

45:31that I recommend for most people as long

45:33as you're willing to pay just a little

45:35bit more than free uh cuz the free

45:37option is obviously installing it

45:38locally on your computer, but there is a

45:41way that you kind of get the best of

45:42both worlds, best of the cloud version

45:44which has some advantages, but it's

45:46really expensive and best of the uh

45:49cheaper option, putting it locally on

45:51your computer. And that is having your

45:52own cloud server that you install n8n

45:55on. So, essentially it's a local

45:57install, but on a different server,

46:00meaning a server different than your

46:02actual home computer. And there are a

46:04couple of different advantages to this.

46:05The main advantage is issue that I told

46:08you about the locally hosted option,

46:10being that it it isn't always on, is not

46:13an issue when you're hosting it on your

46:15own server. So, if you have it on a

46:17server, you can run automations whenever

46:20and it'll be always on, essentially,

46:22unless there's a problem with the

46:23serving hosting service that you're

46:25using or something like that.

46:26Additionally, you get all of the same

46:27privacy and security advantages of

46:29having it in locally, because it's still

46:31that your server, it's not on somebody

46:34else's server. It's still one that you

46:36currently are essentially renting out.

46:38Plus, even though it's not free, it is

46:40going to be a substantial discount from

46:43what you [music] would get through N8N's

46:45actual software as a service provider.

46:47So, if we go back and look at what the

46:49N8N cloud version is, you're going to be

46:52paying at least $24 a month, if not 60,

46:54and there is another web hosting option

46:58that I recommend, called Hostinger. And

47:01this is not sponsored by Hostinger or

47:02anything. I did reach out to them to see

47:04if they would sponsor a video, but I

47:05never heard back, and so I'm just doing

47:08this

47:09free for them. Um the reason I recommend

47:11Hostinger is you'll notice even at the

47:13top of their homepage, they have a

47:16option here for self-hosted N8N. Uh

47:19Hostinger has been really good about

47:21making this a very seamless process,

47:23which is why I'm recommending them. Uh

47:24but what you do, if we go here to

47:26pricing, you can see what the pricing

47:28option looks like. So, this is

47:30essentially the same as hosting your own

47:31website, and you can even use this

47:34[music] to host a website and host N8N,

47:36if you want. But if you come up to this

47:38pricing and select N8N VPS, these are

47:41just the VPSs that they recommend for

47:43N8N. You can select as low as $4.99

47:48a month for the this option. I would

47:51probably get something with just a

47:52little bit more oomph for $6.49 a month.

47:56That said, the only way to get it at

47:58that low price is to opt into 24 months,

48:01which is what I have done. Now, if you

48:02wanted to go month-to-month, it would be

48:04a little bit more expensive at $7.99 or

48:07$9.99 for one of these two plans. Almost

48:10certainly, you will not need one of

48:12these higher plans. I've been on the KVM

48:142 plan. I've never had any problems with

48:17N8N overloading the server or anything

48:18like that. And honestly, you could

48:20probably make do with the KVM 1 plan as

48:23well. But to get the best prices, you

48:25crank it up to 24 months worth and buy

48:28it all at once for for 2 years. And

48:30that's what I did. And even though that

48:33sounds like a lot that you're paying for

48:34all at once, it was still less than just

48:38a couple of months of the cloud-hosted

48:39option. And so, I find this to be a

48:42incredible deal given that you get

48:44almost all of the advantages of the N8N

48:47cloud as well as a lot of the advantages

48:50of self-hosting. The only disadvantage

48:53that this one has to self-hosting is

48:55that it does cost a little. As you can

48:57see, it's not really a whole lot, and

48:59this is certainly a lot less than you'd

49:01pay for Novel Crafter or Pseudo Write or

49:04any of these other AI writing tools. So,

49:06if you want to use what I think is to be

49:09the the best option here, this is the

49:10one I would go with. But there's

49:12absolutely nothing wrong with going with

49:13the other two options. This is just what

49:15I do. And if you're really strapped for

49:16cash, you can absolutely do the local

49:18install thing. Or if you're unsure about

49:20what you want, you can try the local

49:21install thing. But if you want to go

49:23this way, all you have to do here is

49:25select choose plan. Then you'll go

49:27through the purchase process. As you can

49:29see, this is only $155 for 2 years,

49:32which is a really good price in my

49:34opinion. Like I said, 3 months of the

49:38pro plan here in N8N would be more than

49:40that. And here you're getting 2 years

49:42for the same price, for less than the

49:43same price. So, you go through this, and

49:45then and I'm not going to show it here

49:47because I already have this, but you

49:48just select N8N here and then walk

49:50through the process, and it will be

49:52installed for you, ready to go. It's a

49:54much simpler process than going through

49:56Docker and all of the stuff I showed you

49:58on installing locally. So, this is

50:00definitely the way I would go if you're

50:02kind of like you don't want the whole

50:04technical hassle, and you're okay to pay

50:06a little bit of money for it. I think

50:07this is a good option. So, that's just

50:09my thoughts there. So, let's first talk

50:11about why you would need this, and then

50:13the main reason is a lot of the text

50:16that is used by an automation can be

50:19stored in Google Docs, as well as

50:21outputted. Anything that the AI outputs,

50:23we want to put that information

50:24somewhere we we can access it, and a

50:27Google Doc is a good way to do that.

50:28Additionally, there might be instances

50:31where you might need it to access your

50:33Gmail account or something like that. As

50:34you can see in this particular

50:36automation, which I won't get into, you

50:38can see right here I actually have it

50:41access quite a number of documents

50:43before it even gets started. And in

50:45order to have these documents, you

50:47absolutely need Google credentials. And

50:49one of the ways you can look at how to

50:53set up these credentials is to

50:54double-click on any one of these, and

50:56you'll see here it says credentials to

50:57connect with. And right now you If

51:00you're doing this for the first time,

51:01you won't see it say Google Docs account

51:03here like it says on mine. Let me zoom

51:05in here a little bit, because I've

51:06already set mine up here. Instead,

51:09you'll probably see something like this

51:10that says create new credential, and you

51:12can click on that, and it'll bring you

51:14to this page. And so, what we need to do

51:17is fill out this client ID and the

51:20client secret to in order to get this

51:23Google Docs connected.

51:25And thankfully, you can do this process

51:27once, and it will work for all of the

51:29different Google products. So, that's

51:31Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google

51:33Slides, Gmail, etc.

51:36Uh all We only need to do this once,

51:38thankfully. Uh but it is a little bit of

51:40a complicated process to get this set

51:41up. Another way of accessing this, if

51:44you don't want to go through an actual

51:46automation like this one is from your

51:50n8n dashboard, you can see up here where

51:52it says create workflow, click the

51:54little icon here and instead say create

51:58credential.

51:59And then you can search through here on

52:01what kind of credentials you're looking

52:02for. So, if you just look through Google

52:05um

52:06let's say Google Drive and select Google

52:08Drive OAuth 2 API. That's one of the

52:11ones that we'll need to do. Now, like I

52:13said, you only have to get the

52:15credentials once, but you will have to

52:17plug those credentials in multiple times

52:19for each different thing. So, the hard

52:21part you only have to do once, but you

52:23do have to take those credentials and

52:25and stick them into multiple things. As

52:27you can see, I've got multiple

52:29credentials set up here. Uh namely, I've

52:31got Google Drive, Google Docs, Google

52:33Sheets, Google Sheets trigger account,

52:35and a Gmail account. And those are the

52:36ones that I use most frequently, but if

52:38I were to use like say Google Slides or

52:40something, I would need to set that up

52:42as well. Thankfully, I can use the same

52:44uh credentials. Uh you'll notice also I

52:46have Anthropic and Open Router here. I

52:48will walk you through at the end how to

52:50set those up, and particularly Open

52:52Router because it's the most versatile

52:54and it's the best one to start with in

52:55my opinion, and it's the one that I use

52:57most frequently in my automations. But

52:59we'll get to that a little bit later

53:00because right now we're just focusing on

53:02getting Google Docs integrated because

53:04that is the most difficult step. Google,

53:05unfortunately, makes this whole process

53:08egregiously difficult to set up, but

53:11thankfully, once you get through it,

53:13it's all smooth sailing from there. Like

53:14this is literally going to be the

53:16hardest technical thing that you have to

53:18do in this whole process. So, to get

53:20this process started, you need to come

53:22to console.cloud.google.com,

53:25okay? And I will link to this down

53:27below. Uh but this is where you come to

53:29create your auto your credentials. And

53:31you can see I'm already working in

53:33something that I've built here called

53:34n8n auto automations. So, the next thing

53:37that you need to do is up here where it

53:39says uh

53:40it won't say n8n automations for you,

53:42but you'll see something else here. You

53:43just click on this and then you hit this

53:46button here that says new project. And

53:48from here, you can call this whatever

53:49you want. I'm just going to call it test

53:51project because I'm only doing this for

53:55this video and after I'm done with this

53:56video, I will delete this. And I don't

53:58have any organization listed here, so I

54:01just leave this one blank and hit

54:03create. So, the next thing that we want

54:05to do is get these client credentials.

54:08And so, if we go back to the Google

54:10page. So, from here, from

54:12console.cloud.google.com,

54:15if you see this little hamburger icon

54:16here in the top left corner, you click

54:18on that, go to APIs and Services, and

54:21then [music] hit Library. Now, make sure

54:23you have the correct project listed

54:26here. Now, you can see it's actually on

54:28my N8N Automations project, which is not

54:31the one that I want it to be on. We want

54:33to select that new test project that I

54:34created. So, just double-check to make

54:36sure you've got the correct project uh

54:39selected here in the top left corner.

54:41So, from this API Library page, we want

54:45to scroll down until you see Google

54:46Workspace and click View All. And from

54:49here, you want to select any of the

54:52Google services that you think you'll be

54:53using inside of N8N. I would say you

54:56definitely want the Google the Gmail

55:00API, so go ahead and hit enable on that.

55:03So, of these, the ones that I would

55:05definitely enable are Gmail, Google

55:06Drive, um you'll probably want Yeah,

55:09this one, the Google Docs API, the

55:11Google Sheets API, probably the Google

55:13Forms API, and the Google Slides API.

55:17There may be more on here that you might

55:19want, but those are definitely the big

55:21ones that you definitely want to start

55:22with. So, once again, go through each

55:24one, click on it, hit enable, and then

55:27repeat that for every single one that

55:29you want to use. So, the next step that

55:31we want to go to is once again, go up to

55:33the hamburger icon here, go to APIs and

55:36Services, and then hit OAuth consent

55:38screen, and then navigate down here to

55:40where it says audience, and it'll show

55:42you the Google OAuth platform not

55:44configured yet. Get started to configure

55:45your application's identity and manage

55:47credentials for calling Google APIs and

55:49sign in with Google. So, go ahead and

55:51hit get started on that. And what you're

55:54doing is essentially creating a sort of

55:55internal app.

55:57And so, just give it a name. I'm just

55:59going to call it test app for now. Your

56:02user support email can just be your

56:04regular email. Then hit next. And for

56:06most of you, you're going to want to

56:07select under audience select external,

56:10unless this is something like if you

56:12have a set up Google workspace in your

56:14organization. If you have like a

56:16business that already has some kind of

56:17internal thing, you can do that. But

56:20otherwise, you just select external.

56:22That's going to be for most of you. Note

56:24that even though we say external, it's

56:26not actually going to be external for

56:27just anybody to see. The it'll be

56:30something that will be kept private to

56:31your account. So, under contact

56:33information, just put your email address

56:35in there, select I agree, and continue,

56:38and then hit create. And now we go back

56:40here under audience, go under where it

56:43says test users, and say add users, and

56:45make sure your email address is listed

56:47here. And then you should be able to see

56:49your email under there under the test

56:51users. All right. Now, finally, the next

56:53step is to actually set up our

56:55credentials that we need inside of N8N.

56:59So, for that, go back up to the

57:00hamburger icon, go back to APIs and

57:03services, and then select credentials.

57:05From this screen, you go up here to

57:07where it says create create credentials.

57:09Click on that, and then say OAuth client

57:12ID. You want this to be a web

57:13application here. Name this whatever you

57:16want. I'm just going to call it test

57:17application.

57:19Then scroll down a bit, and you'll see

57:20this one that says authorized redirect

57:22URLs. Go ahead and select add URL, and

57:25then this is an important moment. If we

57:28go back to N8N in as we're setting up

57:31our client ID and client secret here and

57:34everything, you'll notice it has this

57:35OAuth redirect URL. You want to go ahead

57:38and copy that and then paste it into

57:41this specific space. And once you've got

57:44this URL in the correct place, go ahead

57:46and hit create. And from here, you will

57:49see the client ID and client secret

57:52right here. Make sure you copy these and

57:54put them in a safe place so you know

57:56where they are. I don't mind just

57:57showing you this here because um

58:00essentially I'm just going to be

58:02deleting this as soon as I finish this

58:04video. Um but you want to just copy

58:06this, go to your N8N credentials, paste

58:08it in, copy the other one, the client

58:10secret, paste that in here. But you'll

58:12notice this little warning here that

58:14says starting in June 2025, you will no

58:16longer be able to view or download the

58:19client secret once you close this

58:20dialogue. Make sure you have copied or

58:22downloaded the information below and

58:23securely stored it. So, please, if you

58:26don't want to have to go through these

58:28steps again, make sure that you copy the

58:31client ID and the client secret and put

58:33it in a safe and secure place. I like to

58:34use a platform like [music] LastPass,

58:37which saves all my passwords and stuff,

58:39but you can also have secured notes in

58:41LastPass. That's just how I do it to

58:43make sure that information like this is

58:45still encrypted, but I can access it

58:47easily. Um that's what I do. Uh but at

58:50the very least, jot this down somewhere

58:53so that you don't lose it. Otherwise,

58:54you're going to have to go through this

58:55entire process again to create a new

58:57client ID and a new client secret to

58:59then put inside of your your credentials

59:02in N8N. So, now that you have the client

59:05ID and the client secret in here, all

59:06you have to do here is click this button

59:08that says sign in with Google. It'll

59:10bring up something like this. You go

59:11ahead and select it, and it'll say

59:14Google hasn't verified this app. And the

59:15reason it says this is because it's

59:17worried that this could be some kind of

59:20third-party malicious thing that is

59:22getting access to your data. But you

59:24created this app, so it's not actually

59:26you know it's not malicious. So, all you

59:28have to do is select continue, select

59:31all of the different things that it

59:33wants to access. So, just select all and

59:36then hit continue and it'll be done. And

59:39now you have successfully filled out

59:41your Google Drive

59:43um credentials here. Now, I'm going to

59:45go ahead and delete this because I don't

59:47need it, but you will need to get that

59:48same client ID and client secret for

59:51each of the Google automations here.

59:53Now, you thankfully, you only once

59:55you've got the client ID and the client

59:57secret, you just copy and paste it to

59:58each of these and run through the same

1:00:00process. You can see if I click on

1:00:02Gmail, for example, I've got the client

1:00:03ID and the client secret here and you

1:00:05just copy and paste those for each of

1:00:07the different accounts. And from there,

1:00:09you should be good to go as far as

1:00:11establishing your Google credentials and

1:00:14uh everything should work. I do

1:00:16sometimes have to reconnect my Google

1:00:19account, but really all I need to do for

1:00:21that is, you know, if we come to this

1:00:24and you just say sign in with Google,

1:00:26it'll walk you through that sign up

1:00:27process that I did right at the end

1:00:29there and you just have to repeat that,

1:00:31but you don't have to go and get a new

1:00:32client ID and all of that again,

1:00:34thankfully. All right, now I'm going to

1:00:36show you how to set up OpenRouter. Um

1:00:39you can run through a very similar

1:00:40process to set up Anthropic, to set up

1:00:42OpenAI, uh to set up any of the others.

1:00:45And if you've worked with a platform

1:00:47like Novel Crafter or Raptor Write to

1:00:49write your books, this should be a

1:00:50familiar process to you. So, uh

1:00:53OpenRouter, if you are unfamiliar, is a

1:00:56uh third-party platform where all uh

1:01:00they essentially provide access to most

1:01:02of the major AI models out there.

1:01:05And so, I use OpenRouter as my primary

1:01:08interface with N

1:01:10in order to provide the actual AI words

1:01:14that get generated. If you don't have an

1:01:16OpenRouter account, I strongly recommend

1:01:17you create one and then add five bucks

1:01:20to it or something so that it can draw

1:01:22from that as you're creating your work.

1:01:25But then in order to get the [music] API

1:01:27key that we need, we go up here to the

1:01:28top and go to keys. And from here you

1:01:31want to select create an API key. Give

1:01:34it a name. We'll just call this test

1:01:36API.

1:01:38And you can leave the rest of this

1:01:40blank, then hit create. And then it'll

1:01:42give you this long string of numbers.

1:01:44Again, I don't mind you guys seeing this

1:01:46because I'm just going to delete it

1:01:47afterward. But just go ahead and copy

1:01:50that, then go back to N8N, and what

1:01:53we'll do is go ahead up here at the top

1:01:57right, select this little icon, select

1:01:59create credential again,

1:02:01>> [music]

1:02:01>> and search for Open Router. Once you've

1:02:03found Open Router, hit continue. And

1:02:05then all you have to do is paste that

1:02:06API key right there. And then hit save.

1:02:09And that's all you have to do. It's

1:02:10really simple. A lot more simple than

1:02:13getting your Google credentials set up.

1:02:15And the same is very much true for

1:02:17Anthropic or Open AI or Gemini and all

1:02:20of their credentials. All you have to do

1:02:22is just go find the right API key for

1:02:24those platforms, which is you can easily

1:02:26Google that and how to how to find those

1:02:28API keys. And then just paste them in

1:02:29here. I do find Open Router to be

1:02:32refreshingly simple though in setting

1:02:34this up. All right. So, now that you

1:02:36hopefully have everything set up with

1:02:37N8N, we're going to create just a very

1:02:39simple automation to kind of show you

1:02:42how the steps work in relation to each

1:02:44other. From your N8N dashboard, you go

1:02:47to this one that says create workflow.

1:02:49And we'll right here where it says add

1:02:52first step, we're going to add our first

1:02:53step. Now, the two that I use the most

1:02:55are over here. It'll say trigger

1:02:57manually. The other one that I use a lot

1:02:59is on form submission. Sometimes I like

1:03:02to submit things via a form. And that's

1:03:04the one we're going to select for

1:03:05today's really brief automation. So,

1:03:07we'll select that. And in this form,

1:03:10there's a number of things that we can

1:03:11do, but most notably we want to give it

1:03:14a title. So, we'll say we're going to

1:03:16call this the book description info,

1:03:19right? You can give it a description if

1:03:20you want, but we don't need it. And then

1:03:22under form elements, I'm going to say

1:03:24add form element. And we'll give this a

1:03:26name, book description example, all

1:03:28right? And that's going to be the name

1:03:30of the field. This is going to be so

1:03:32there's under element type, you can

1:03:34select a number of things. So, is this

1:03:36an email that we're trying to capture?

1:03:37Is this a multiple choice option? In our

1:03:40case, we're just putting it as a text

1:03:42area, which will be a little box. And

1:03:43trust me, this looks really complicated,

1:03:45but it's really not once you kind of get

1:03:47to know it. We're going to toggle this

1:03:48that says required field, and that

1:03:51should be good there. Then we're going

1:03:53to add another one. So, this one will

1:03:55say add form element. We're going to

1:03:56call this about my book. And once again,

1:04:00for element type, we're going to select

1:04:01text area. We're also going to make this

1:04:03a required. Now, we've got that whole

1:04:05form submission set up. So, this is our

1:04:07trigger. This until we enter everything

1:04:10onto this form, this automation will not

1:04:12fire. If we want to look, just go ahead

1:04:14and select execute workflow, and it will

1:04:16pull up the form. So, as you can see,

1:04:18we've got a text box here and a text box

1:04:20here called book description example and

1:04:22about my book. So, what I'm going to do

1:04:24for this automation is we're going to

1:04:26actually go and find a book description

1:04:29example. Let's go to Amazon. I just

1:04:31picked a random book that was shown to

1:04:33me. So, this looks like cozy mystery

1:04:35probably. Yeah, cozy fantasy with kind

1:04:37of baking twist to it. Not a very long

1:04:41book description, all right? So, that

1:04:44that works for today's purposes. We're

1:04:46going to select this, and we're going to

1:04:48go to our form, which is right here, and

1:04:51put it in here. And about our book,

1:04:53we're going to enter in some information

1:04:55about our book. So, because this is a

1:04:57cozy fantasy in the book description

1:04:58example, I'm going to think of one. This

1:05:00is a cozy mystery about a dragon who is

1:05:04tired of people being upset at him, and

1:05:06he just wants to open a bakery where he

1:05:09sells hotcakes, all right? So, very

1:05:11simple. Obviously, if you have a book

1:05:13written already, you would put more

1:05:15information about your book in here. You

1:05:16could even create an automation that

1:05:18reads your book and gathers that

1:05:20information automatically, so you don't

1:05:22even need to put it here. But, since

1:05:23we're doing a very simple example here,

1:05:25this is all I'm going to put there. All

1:05:27I have to do now is hit submit trigger.

1:05:28So, the trigger has started. However, of

1:05:30course, there's nothing after this,

1:05:32right? Uh so, nothing happens,

1:05:33basically. But, I am going to teach you

1:05:35one really useful feature in N8N, which

1:05:38is the ability to pin information. So,

1:05:40if you right-click on this, you'll see

1:05:43an option that says pin. You click on

1:05:44that, it turns this purplish color. So,

1:05:46now that means that the information that

1:05:49we just submitted is locked in. So, I

1:05:51don't have to input that information

1:05:53again. And you can actually see what

1:05:54that information was down here in this

1:05:56section. You'll see, here's the book

1:05:58description example, and here's the

1:06:00about my book section here. So, that's

1:06:02the information, and it has been pinned,

1:06:04so we're not going to lose this. That's

1:06:06a very useful feature, all right? Now,

1:06:07we're going to create our first AI

1:06:09agent. And what we'll do here is we'll

1:06:11click this little plus icon, and over

1:06:13here on the right, we'll select AI AI

1:06:15agent, all right? And then here, we're

1:06:17going to is where it says connected chat

1:06:19trigger node, we're going to select

1:06:21define below instead. And then from

1:06:23here, I don't think we need to change

1:06:24anything [music] else here. So, we're

1:06:26going to put our prompt in here, because

1:06:28what we want to do is we want to bring

1:06:30in the information that we just gave it

1:06:32through the trigger, and then output

1:06:33that into probably a Google Doc or

1:06:35something like that. So, here we're

1:06:37going to put our prompt. I'm just going

1:06:38to write this real quick on the spot. I

1:06:40want you [music] to take the book

1:06:43description above and do a line-by-line

1:06:46analysis [music] of what the book

1:06:47description is trying to do from a

1:06:49copywriting stand. All right, so that's

1:06:51all I'm going to put there, but we do

1:06:53want to pull in that information from

1:06:56the form. So, what I like to do is I

1:06:57like to use this technique called XML

1:06:59tags, where you put a word inside of

1:07:02these brackets like this. If you know

1:07:05any HTML, this will look kind of

1:07:06familiar. Uh we're going to call this

1:07:08book description example. And then I'm

1:07:10going to create another one with a

1:07:12little slash in front of it like this.

1:07:14So now we have I call this is

1:07:16essentially I call this an XML box. All

1:07:18right, this we've created a box and

1:07:20inside the box we're going to put

1:07:21information. And you don't really need

1:07:23to know like why I do it this way, but

1:07:25this is basically just a

1:07:27well-established prompt engineering

1:07:29technique to kind of help the AI to be

1:07:31able to understand what information is

1:07:34what and sort [music] through it. So we

1:07:36on the left here, we can actually see

1:07:38from our form, it actually tells us all

1:07:41of the information it has available to

1:07:42us so far. And since we pinned the

1:07:44information in that form, all of that

1:07:45information is here. So all I have to do

1:07:47is drag this one that says book

1:07:49description example and I'm going to put

1:07:51it right here. Um actually we did that

1:07:53wrong. So um going to open this up and

1:07:55then pull it right here. And it'll give

1:07:56us this little short code that you see

1:07:58in green. It'll look red if it's not

1:08:00able to access it or if you named it

1:08:02wrong or something like that. But this

1:08:04is essentially a placeholder for where

1:08:06the information is going to go. And you

1:08:08can actually see what the ultimate

1:08:10prompt is going to look like over here,

1:08:11uh as you can see, where you've got the

1:08:14book description example right here. So

1:08:16if we wanted to test this particular

1:08:18step, we could, except there's a problem

1:08:21and you can see that it's giving us an

1:08:22error here. That is because we don't

1:08:24have a large language model attached to

1:08:26this AI agent. So in order for us to do

1:08:28anything about that, we have to select

1:08:30this plus button here where it says chat

1:08:32model. Click on that and you can pull in

1:08:34anything from Anthropic, which does the

1:08:36Claude models, you can pull in Deep

1:08:37Seek, Google Gemini's models, Grok,

1:08:40Mistral, but the one I use the most is

1:08:42called Open Router because Open Router

1:08:44has access to most of the models. So I'm

1:08:46going to click on that and it'll give us

1:08:48a huge list of models. So I don't really

1:08:50particularly care which model we use,

1:08:52but I'm going to pick one that's rather

1:08:53inexpensive. So I'm going to go with

1:08:55Gemini 3.1 flashlight, so that it

1:08:57doesn't cost me much money. So now we

1:08:59have our first agent fully set up. Now I

1:09:01could execute this workflow, and it

1:09:03already has the information pinned for

1:09:05the first step, but now it's running

1:09:06this second step, right? And if we click

1:09:09down here at the bottom, you can

1:09:11actually see the output that it gave us.

1:09:13So, here it says, "This book description

1:09:14is a masterclass in cozy fantasy

1:09:16marketing. It uses a specific rhyme to

1:09:18establish character and motivation,

1:09:19etc., etc." And then I had asked it for

1:09:21a line-by-line analysis. So, the first

1:09:23line is the Dragon Diner Bookkeeper

1:09:25Wanted. Copywriting goal, clear genre

1:09:27signaling, and immediate hook. Analysis,

1:09:30short and punchy. It establishes the

1:09:31vibe, whimsical, business-focused, while

1:09:33identifying exactly what happened in the

1:09:35book. So, it goes through and it

1:09:36basically does this line-by-line

1:09:38analysis. This is important because

1:09:40we're now going to create a new AI agent

1:09:42next to this one. And rather than just

1:09:44clicking the plus button and creating a

1:09:46new AI agent, I sometimes find it's

1:09:48faster to select the one I've got and

1:09:50copy it by going control C and then

1:09:52pasting and putting it here. But, if we

1:09:54do that, we do need to make sure we're

1:09:56connecting it. So, we just grab this one

1:09:58right here and pull it over so that now

1:10:01it's connected to our first AI agent.

1:10:03And we have the model connected as well.

1:10:05And if we click on this, it'll be the

1:10:06same model that we used. If we wanted to

1:10:08use a different [music] model for this

1:10:09specific step, we could, but it is what

1:10:12it is. So, now I'm going to select this

1:10:14one, and we've got the same hook that we

1:10:16or the same prompt that we had before.

1:10:18So, now I want to change this. [music]

1:10:20So, I'm going to remove this prompt. And

1:10:22the context that I want to bring in is

1:10:25the description of our book that we put

1:10:26into our form, the about the book

1:10:28section, as well as the output from the

1:10:30previous step, because that previous

1:10:32step had a step-by-step analysis of what

1:10:35we wanted, okay? So, I'm going to say,

1:10:38"Um book description template." [music]

1:10:40And we'll do another {forward slash}

1:10:42book description template. And then

1:10:44we're going to create another XML box

1:10:46for about my book. And so, now we have

1:10:49these XML boxes kind of set up, but we

1:10:51need to make sure they have the correct

1:10:52information in them. So, in order to get

1:10:54the book description template, which is

1:10:56the output of the previous step. You can

1:10:58actually see that output here in the

1:11:00previous step right here. So, I can

1:11:01select this and just pull that over and

1:11:03now it has this little shortcode that

1:11:05shows you here when it actually shows

1:11:07you what will actually go to the to the

1:11:10AI. It has this entire thing in it. Now,

1:11:13to do the same for about my book, we go

1:11:14down to the form, which is located here

1:11:17on the left side. You can see that step.

1:11:19We're not going to grab the book

1:11:20description example because we already

1:11:21have the book description template from

1:11:23the previous step. We're going to grab

1:11:25about my book. I'll select this and drop

1:11:27it into that XML box, okay? Now, we just

1:11:31need to give it some instructions on

1:11:32what to do with this information. Given

1:11:34the above info about my book and the

1:11:36book description template, I want you to

1:11:38craft a high-converting book description

1:11:41that matches the template, but is about

1:11:43my book instead. All right, so that's

1:11:45just a brief prompt that I kind of

1:11:47created myself. You don't often need to

1:11:49overthink these prompts. You just need

1:11:50to make sure, if it's not doing what

1:11:52you're doing, to go in and adjust the

1:11:53prompt to do more what you're asking

1:11:55for, but often you you don't need

1:11:57something super fancy. So, that's all

1:11:58I'm going to put in there. And before I

1:12:00run this, I'm actually going to

1:12:02right-click and pin the second step

1:12:04first so that the data that we ran the

1:12:07last time we ran this is still there.

1:12:09Otherwise, it would run this step again,

1:12:11if that makes sense. And before we

1:12:13actually run this, go ahead and already

1:12:15just put another step in here. So, in

1:12:18this [music] case, we want it to put

1:12:20this information in a Google Doc. So,

1:12:21I've already gone ahead and created the

1:12:24document here just called my book

1:12:25description, all right? But, this could

1:12:27be anything you want. And up here at the

1:12:28top, you've got a URL. We're going to

1:12:30copy that cuz we're going to need it.

1:12:31Once you've got that URL copied, we're

1:12:33going to go back into N8N, click this

1:12:36little plus icon, and under search

1:12:38nodes, I'm just going to type in Google,

1:12:40and up here pops Google Docs. This is

1:12:42the one you want. And it will give you

1:12:44three options. The first is to create a

1:12:46document, get a document, or update a

1:12:47document. I've already created the

1:12:49document, so I I need to do that one.

1:12:50So, instead, we're going to select get a

1:12:52document first, and we're going to type

1:12:54in that URL right here. So, just go

1:12:56ahead and paste that URL right into this

1:12:58place where it says doc. Now, it will be

1:13:00able to fetch that particular doc. Then,

1:13:03I'm going to select a plus right next to

1:13:05it, and once again, type in Google. Once

1:13:07again, select Google Docs, and now we're

1:13:09going to say update a doc. And actually,

1:13:11you could do just this one. You don't

1:13:13have to do the first step, but

1:13:14generally, it's good to get the document

1:13:16first. If you're doing longer

1:13:18automations, that is a useful feature.

1:13:20But, I could just put the URL right in

1:13:22here, and that would work. But, and we

1:13:24can also we take that off, we can also

1:13:26pull the ID or URL from the previous

1:13:29step. So, over here on the left, you'll

1:13:30see it says content or document ID. In

1:13:32this case, we want to grab document ID

1:13:34and stick it right there. And then here,

1:13:37we have text. So, right here, this is

1:13:39the text that we're going to update this

1:13:41document with. And whatever this is, we

1:13:43want it to basically be the output of

1:13:46our previous step. So, I can't do that

1:13:48right now because I haven't executed the

1:13:51previous step, so let's do that now. So,

1:13:52I'm going to right click this step, and

1:13:54just this step, and say execute step,

1:13:56rather than executing the whole

1:13:58workflow. We're just executing this

1:13:59step. And it gave me some output, which

1:14:01you can actually read over here. And

1:14:03yep, this looks good. I might actually

1:14:05go into this prompt and modify it

1:14:07because it gave me some preamble. So,

1:14:09I'm going to add a line here that says,

1:14:11"Don't give me any preamble or

1:14:12explanation. Just give me the book

1:14:15description by itself." All right, so

1:14:17next time I run it, it will improve that

1:14:19particular aspect of it. And I do this

1:14:21all the time with my prompts. I'm

1:14:22constantly seeing what it gives me, and

1:14:23then tweaking the prompts to get more

1:14:25precise. All right, so now, if I run

1:14:28this thing all the way through, then it

1:14:30will go ahead and it'll run all of these

1:14:32steps, and then it will get the

1:14:34document, and it will update that

1:14:36document with our text. Actually, I'm

1:14:38going to let this one run again because

1:14:39I made a tweak to the prompt. But, since

1:14:41I have already run it, I can now go into

1:14:44update document. We'll go here to the

1:14:45section called text, and um we're going

1:14:48to make sure that whatever it updates

1:14:51the document with is the output of that

1:14:53second step. So, right here I can select

1:14:55output, and I'll just drag this over to

1:14:56text, and that's all you need to do. So,

1:14:58now you can save this, and we'll select

1:15:01execute workflow. Since these first two

1:15:03steps are pinned, it will just use the

1:15:04data that's already there right now, but

1:15:06it'll run this one again, and then run

1:15:08these two here, and by the end it should

1:15:11update our book description. So, now you

1:15:12can see it's all green and checked off,

1:15:14so that means it's completed. Let's

1:15:16check our document to make sure it's

1:15:17there. And so it is. So, here is our

1:15:19book description nicely placed inside of

1:15:22our document. So, obviously this takes a

1:15:25little time to set up, but once it's

1:15:27done, this allows for a huge potential

1:15:30in what you're able to do. This is just

1:15:32a very simple example to kind of get you

1:15:34started with figuring out how to create

1:15:36these things, but I'm going to show you

1:15:37some much more advanced automations that

1:15:39do a whole lot more, and are really fun

1:15:42to play with. So, I'll get to that it

1:15:43later in the course. But before we do

1:15:46anything more, I want to introduce you

1:15:47to one more tool. Because the problem

1:15:49with n8n is that it's really difficult

1:15:52to learn. As you can tell, like there

1:15:53are a lot of steps, it's very technical

1:15:55from everything I've shown you. And so,

1:15:56one of my big goals recently has been to

1:15:59define a way to get the power of these

1:16:01automations into something a little bit

1:16:03more simple, essentially combining what

1:16:05I like best about a tool like Claude and

1:16:07tool like n8n into one. The tool that

1:16:11I've come up with, that I've been

1:16:12developing now for quite a while, about

1:16:14half a year now, is called Story Hacker

1:16:16OS. Now, I will walk you through all of

1:16:18the steps in Story Hacker OS, as well as

1:16:21Claude and n8n, but I just kind of want

1:16:23to show you a few things about Story

1:16:25Hacker OS, and why this is kind of my

1:16:27dream tool. Now, full disclosure, this

1:16:29is a tool that I've developed, so I'm

1:16:31obviously a little bit biased towards

1:16:33it, but I've really done my best to try

1:16:35and make this the best tool for writers

1:16:37that I can. Because most of the tools

1:16:39out there for writers don't have any

1:16:40kind of automated system, and I am a big

1:16:42believer in those automated systems. But

1:16:44then the automated systems also have a

1:16:46problem because it makes it difficult to

1:16:48kind of use AI to fine-tune things, just

1:16:50interact with the document like I could

1:16:52in Claude, for instance. So, this has

1:16:54been my answer to that as a way of kind

1:16:57of combining the best of both worlds.

1:16:58So, to give you a little bit of a tour,

1:17:00you have a document here in the center,

1:17:02and over here you have a chatbot. And

1:17:04this chatbot works very similar to what

1:17:07you would find in Claude, where it has

1:17:09access to this document and it has that

1:17:10context, and it can give you suggestions

1:17:13and things like that. Down here it also

1:17:15gives you a bunch of other options for

1:17:18context. So, if you want to make sure it

1:17:20understands who your characters are,

1:17:21what your world-building's like, if you

1:17:22have an outline, you can pull all of

1:17:24that into this chatbot so it is aware.

1:17:26It's very similar to the projects

1:17:27feature in Claude in that respect. There

1:17:29are a whole bunch of different things

1:17:31that you can do inside of this. You can

1:17:32even give it personas. So, for instance,

1:17:35this one's just using the writing

1:17:36assistant persona, but you could have

1:17:38different types of personas, like maybe

1:17:40a character interaction persona, so you

1:17:42can interact with a particular character

1:17:44and talk to them and see is their voice

1:17:45correct and all of that. And then you

1:17:47have a bunch of different documents here

1:17:49that you can sort through, and all of

1:17:51these documents are put together inside

1:17:53of a project, like you can see here.

1:17:55Each project here acts like a separate

1:17:57book. We also have templates, which I

1:17:59will actually get to in the next module.

1:18:01But the main thing that kind of makes

1:18:04this distinct from all other

1:18:06writing-specific tools is this book

1:18:08builder and other things that we're

1:18:10adding that will be similar to this.

1:18:11These are my most powerful automations

1:18:13that I've created in n8n. I basically

1:18:16took those, which are super complicated,

1:18:18super difficult to set up and tailor to

1:18:19yourself, and would probably take you

1:18:21hours just to set up, and they're just

1:18:22here, and they just work. Uh so, all you

1:18:24have to do is come to this brain dump,

1:18:27for instance, and enter in your brain

1:18:29dump information here, everything you

1:18:30know about your story, and then hit

1:18:32start pipeline. Now, I will show off

1:18:34every single one of of features in the

1:18:36remaining modules of this video, but I

1:18:38just kind of want to bring this up

1:18:39because we're going to be talking about

1:18:41it as my solution to try and combine the

1:18:42best of both worlds because Claude, it's

1:18:44great, it's simple, it's a good place

1:18:46for beginners to start, but it's also

1:18:48very limited. For instance, you only

1:18:50have access to to certain models. N8N,

1:18:52on the other hand, is much more powerful

1:18:54and much more customizable to your own

1:18:58process. It [music] also has issues in

1:19:00that it's a little less flexible and it

1:19:02also has a huge learning curve to get

1:19:04started. This allows you to have these

1:19:06automations here in a way that requires

1:19:09a lot less time and work. And if you

1:19:11want to fine-tune the outputs that those

1:19:13automations give you to give a little

1:19:15bit more flexibility than what you can

1:19:16get with N8N, at least over your output,

1:19:18you can come into a project and work

1:19:21with it here with your chatbot or you

1:19:23can, you know, you can select text and

1:19:25edit it here and there's just a lot you

1:19:27can do. So, this is my solution to that

1:19:29and it's the final tool that I want to

1:19:30introduce it to you. If you want to get

1:19:32your hands on this tool, you can do so

1:19:34through my Storyteller AI membership,

1:19:37where it is available at no extra charge

1:19:39to the members of that group. It's the

1:19:40only way you can get it. I'm not selling

1:19:42this separately. I have not raised my

1:19:44price for this either, at least at the

1:19:45time that I'm recording this. People

1:19:47were already paying for the instruction

1:19:51and the access to me that you get inside

1:19:54of my membership. This was just added as

1:19:55an additional thing already on top of

1:19:57that. So, my membership looks something

1:19:59like this when you first join. There's a

1:20:02thriving community. In fact, my

1:20:03community is in the top six of all tech

1:20:07communities in terms of the engagement

1:20:09that it has. And over here in the

1:20:10classroom, we've got a bunch of

1:20:12different instructionary phases. And so,

1:20:14we walk you through the entire process

1:20:16in a way that teaches you what makes a

1:20:19good book so that you can use these

1:20:21tools effectively. And that's this phase

1:20:23project. You can also see there are

1:20:25recordings of live calls with me and a

1:20:27couple of other subject matter experts,

1:20:29as well as some super secret bonuses,

1:20:31which I will not talk about, but they

1:20:33are here. I also have a bunch of courses

1:20:36here from David Farland, and if you're

1:20:38not familiar with David Farland, he is

1:20:40an incredibly influential person. He

1:20:41unfortunately died a couple of years

1:20:43ago. But he's the guy who taught Brandon

1:20:45Sanderson and Stephanie Meyer and James

1:20:47Dashner and a whole lot of very

1:20:49successful authors. And I've since

1:20:51become good friends with his sons. As

1:20:52far as I know, I'm the only one that

1:20:54they've permitted to license their

1:20:55father's courses, so I'm able to include

1:20:57them inside of my membership. So all of

1:20:59this is available to you, plus Story

1:21:01Hacker OS, when you join. All right, so

1:21:03if that is interesting to you, be sure

1:21:05to check out the link below this video,

1:21:07and I hope to see you there. But now

1:21:08that we've pretty much covered all of

1:21:09the tools that we're going to be using

1:21:11inside of this full course, let's move

1:21:13on to module three, where we're going to

1:21:15talk about what I think is the most

1:21:18overlooked part of this process. [music]

1:21:21Pretty much all of the other AI writing

1:21:23software tools out there ignore this

1:21:25step, and I think it's one of those

1:21:26steps that has really helped my work

1:21:28excel. So let's get into that now.

1:21:30Welcome to module three, where we're

1:21:33going to talk about one of the aspects

1:21:35of AI writing that, as far as I know,

1:21:37originated with me on this channel. Most

1:21:39of the AI writing tools out there give

1:21:40you the tools to create your characters

1:21:42and plot and world building, but all of

1:21:45them miss one important step has to come

1:21:48first. Because you see, if AI isn't

1:21:50guided well, when you go to ask it for

1:21:52all of those assets, it will give you

1:21:54very generic suggestions. And this is

1:21:57where actual AI slop comes from, right?

1:21:59People who just went to the defaults

1:22:01that AI gave them. But something I

1:22:03realized is that if you give AI a solid

1:22:06framework to build on, ideally one that

1:22:08is specifically designed for whatever

1:22:10genre you're writing in, cuz not all

1:22:12genres are written the same. You can't

1:22:14use the Hero's Journey framework for a

1:22:15romance book, for example. And even a

1:22:17more romance specific framework like

1:22:19Romancing the Beat might not work for

1:22:21certain subgenres or of romance. Or the

1:22:24very least, those subgenres would have

1:22:26additional requirements. So, an [music]

1:22:28important first step to the AI writing

1:22:30process is not to plot your outline or

1:22:32start fleshing out your characters. It's

1:22:34actually to just establish the templates

1:22:36that you were going to follow. Because

1:22:38if you don't do that, you'll end up with

1:22:40generic AI slop. Now, I first figured

1:22:43this out a long time ago, and so I spent

1:22:45quite a bit of time handcrafting the

1:22:48perfect 40-chapter template for a

1:22:50general book. And that ended up becoming

1:22:52this book right here called the Plot

1:22:54Module. This book came about because I

1:22:57found an as I was reading a lot of books

1:22:59about story structure, a lot of them had

1:23:01the same different beats. And some of

1:23:03them even told you the approximate

1:23:05number of scenes that you should be

1:23:06going for. Save the Cat, for instance,

1:23:08gave me 15 beats, but said that you

1:23:11should have roughly 40 scenes for a

1:23:13book. And I actually found that this

1:23:15number of 40 scenes or 40 chapters came

1:23:18up quite a bit, not just in

1:23:19screenwriting, but in books about

1:23:21structure for novels as well. And so I

1:23:23thought, well, okay, if there's 15 beats

1:23:25in the case of Save the Cat, and there's

1:23:2640 scenes, what are happening in the

1:23:29other 25 scenes, right? So, I went to to

1:23:33study that whole thing and really went

1:23:35chapter by chapter trying to figure out

1:23:37what should if you had 40 scenes, like

1:23:39let's just cap it at 40, what would you

1:23:41put in each one? And the result of that

1:23:43became this book. And it's still today

1:23:46my best-selling book of all of them,

1:23:48fiction and nonfiction. Does very well

1:23:50for me. And that was the initial attempt

1:23:54at creating a template that could be

1:23:56really useful and specific for AI

1:23:59writing. I mean, it's useful for human

1:24:02writing as well, cuz it's nice to have a

1:24:04framework to follow. The problem, the

1:24:06only problem with this is that it it was

1:24:08a bit even this is a little too generic

1:24:11and doesn't fit every genre. But at the

1:24:13very least, this will probably teach you

1:24:15good story structure better than any

1:24:17other book, because it actually walks

1:24:19you through chapter by a like that. But

1:24:21because it's not that genre-specific, I

1:24:24came up with a different way that Well,

1:24:26actually, me and my community came up

1:24:28with a different way of getting a little

1:24:30bit more nuance in your templates. And

1:24:33that leads me to talk about the story

1:24:34hacking process. So, to briefly go over

1:24:37this, this is an automation I made in

1:24:40n8n that story hacks a book. I'm not

1:24:43going to go into too much depth here,

1:24:45but I'm just trying to give you an idea.

1:24:46But, basically, what it does is these

1:24:48steps, it grabs a file. So, for

1:24:50instance, you can go online and find

1:24:52screenplays from, you know, thousands of

1:24:55films. You grab one of those, and then

1:24:57you kind of highlight where the scene

1:24:59breaks are. You do That is a preparatory

1:25:01step you have to do. You highlight the

1:25:03scene breaks and make sure that your

1:25:05heading for each scene is formatted in a

1:25:07specific way. And then you pull that

1:25:09document in here in with these two

1:25:11steps. And then assuming you formatted

1:25:13the document correctly, it will then

1:25:16essentially chop it up into those

1:25:18individual scenes. And then for each

1:25:20scene, it runs a summary prompt on it.

1:25:23Kind of see what's happening in the

1:25:25scene. Now, this is more than just a

1:25:26summary. If you check it out, there's a

1:25:28lot here. So, we're determining, let's

1:25:31say, the So, we have the summary, then

1:25:33we also have a list of characters, the

1:25:36setting, and anything a list of anything

1:25:38important to the setting, the conflict,

1:25:39the tropes, the scene intensity, the

1:25:41spice level, the violence level, and the

1:25:42swearing level. So, all of that gets

1:25:44calculated chapter by chapter or scene

1:25:46by scene for whatever book or screenplay

1:25:49that you are analyzing. And then once

1:25:50it's done that, it has that entire

1:25:53summary. And these last two steps do a

1:25:55deep analysis of that summary. So, it

1:25:58checks for like, what are the main

1:25:59tropes in this book? And what are the

1:26:01main themes of this book? And

1:26:03particularly, the second one here is my

1:26:05favorite. It'll actually go through and

1:26:07create a plot template from the

1:26:10scene-by-scene breakdown that you've

1:26:11got. So, rather than saying something

1:26:13like C-3PO and C-3PO and are caught in a

1:26:16battle on the Tantive IV, but instead of

1:26:19I say something like secondary

1:26:21characters are caught up in an epic

1:26:23battle that is beyond the scope of their

1:26:26existence. You know, it will say

1:26:28something more generic that could be

1:26:30applied to any story. So, that's the

1:26:32story hacking process. And what this is,

1:26:34it's very similar to if you're learning

1:26:36how to become an artist. One of the

1:26:39things that you it is recommended to do

1:26:40when you're learning how to become an

1:26:42artist is essentially to create a copy

1:26:44of an existing painting from an existing

1:26:47master. So, you copy their style and

1:26:48everything. And there's different levels

1:26:50to this. You can actually try to copy

1:26:52like an actual painting, which of course

1:26:54you shouldn't do unless it's like public

1:26:55domain. I mean, you should do it to

1:26:57learn, but you can't sell that, right?

1:26:59You could also try to create your own

1:27:00work in the same style as that person.

1:27:02And that's kind of what we're doing here

1:27:04is we're creating a work in the same

1:27:06style as someone else or at least using

1:27:09the same structure. In our case,

1:27:10thankfully, you can absolutely copyright

1:27:12a story that is based on a structure

1:27:15from another book or a movie as long as

1:27:17it's not copying actual characters and

1:27:18things like that. If you're just kind of

1:27:20sticking to the high-level approach that

1:27:24story had to structure, then you can

1:27:26absolutely do that. A good example of

1:27:27this is Eragon, which is beat for beat

1:27:30the exact same structure as Star Wars: A

1:27:32New Hope. So, that's the kind of thing

1:27:34that we're talking about here. It's not

1:27:35necessarily going to produce the biggest

1:27:38bestsellers of all time, but it will

1:27:40teach you a lot about how to create a

1:27:42good book and what makes a good story.

1:27:45So, this is just one of the ways that we

1:27:46go about creating templates that can be

1:27:48used in the process of writing. And

1:27:51then, as I was going through this

1:27:52process, we actually found a way of sort

1:27:55of taking multiple of these that have

1:27:58been story hacked and sort of kit

1:28:00bashing them together. And what I found

1:28:02that when I was able to figure out how

1:28:03to do this is that if all of those books

1:28:05were, say, in the same genre and I went

1:28:08through this process to break them down

1:28:09scene by scene and figure out the tropes

1:28:12and create the plot template. Then I

1:28:14took that plot template and all of that

1:28:16other information and kitbashed it

1:28:17together to look at the trends and

1:28:19everything that these things had in

1:28:21common. I was able to create a genre

1:28:23guide for the genre as a whole that's

1:28:25based on multiple bestsellers in that

1:28:28genre. And those have become the basis

1:28:30for some of my genre guides which I have

1:28:32here inside of my membership. You can

1:28:34also buy these on Amazon. They're five

1:28:36bucks on Amazon, but you get them all at

1:28:38no extra cost inside of the membership.

1:28:40And these are like one of the biggest

1:28:41things that I have produced and they

1:28:43sell really well and get good reviews,

1:28:45too. So, I'm I'm really happy with these

1:28:47so far. Uh, but they are essentially a

1:28:50more refined genre-specific version of

1:28:53this book, my bestselling book. This one

1:28:55will teach you basic story structure.

1:28:57It's definitely a good foundation to

1:28:58start with. And if you're kind of

1:28:59stumped on what genre you want to be in,

1:29:02like this is just still a good structure

1:29:04to start with. But a lot of these will

1:29:06give you a specific structure for the

1:29:07specific genre that you are in and that

1:29:10can be super valuable. But if we look at

1:29:11these genre guides, we actually in my

1:29:13membership, we have multiple guides for

1:29:16everything from tropes to plot to

1:29:17>> [music]

1:29:18>> style, characters to world

1:29:20world building themes, and even a

1:29:21template for book descriptions for books

1:29:24in that genre. And so, I'm going to give

1:29:25you an idea uh if you don't have access

1:29:28to be able to analyze these books with

1:29:30AI like we've been doing in my

1:29:31membership, there is a way that you can

1:29:34create these templates for yourself

1:29:36without having to resort to somebody

1:29:37else's pre-made stuff like what I've

1:29:39got, right? So, the way I would go about

1:29:41that is I would first go to a chatbot