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0:00Hello everyone. My name is Akello
0:01Harrell, and boy, am I happy to be a
0:03Nerdy Novelist. Today, we're going to be
0:05working inside of Story Hacker OS. What
0:08I'm going to do is actually bring a
0:11story that I have been working on for a
0:13very long time. We're going [music] to
0:14bring it into Story Hacker OS, and in
0:17that process of bringing that story in,
0:20we are going to enhance it. We're going
0:23to flesh it out even more. We're going
0:25to do all kinds of really cool things
0:27with it. All right, let's jump right in.
0:29All right, we're inside of Story Hacker
0:32OS.
0:33As you have already signed in, and
0:35you've gone and signed up over at Story
0:37Hacker, you now have access to this. And
0:40as you can also see, I have some
0:42projects that I've been working on.
0:45But what I have not put in here is my
0:48Lucky 7 Universe. And so, I'm going to
0:50start populating that universe now. Now,
0:53how best do I get started with this?
0:55Well, I go up into the upper right-hand
0:58corner over here, and I click on this
1:00create button, and I am given the option
1:03to create either a book, a series, or a
1:07world. So, what I'm going to do is we're
1:09going to start at the world level, and
1:12I'm going to call this the
1:15Lucky
1:187.
1:22And we're going to click create. I'm
1:25going to back out of this so that we can
1:27see what happens. Now, we have the
1:29ability to start working either in a new
1:32series right here, or we could work in a
1:36new document. I am going to actually And
1:39see, and over here, you can even create
1:42within the world you can create the
1:45series or a new document, which would be
1:48a new book inside of the series. But,
1:51the series we're going to work on right
1:53now is uh we're going to work on the
1:56original trilogy, which we will call
1:59Hello Universe.
2:01Because in this series of books, the
2:05main protagonists are trying their best
2:07to break out of the shell that they've
2:10been locked in, which is our solar
2:12system.
2:14Okay, and uh, this is the introduction
2:17to the rest of the greater universe.
2:19Now, we have this series in here.
2:22Uh,
2:23let me see, shared notes every book in
2:26this world can draw on. So, this right
2:28here is a document that is for the
2:31entire world. So, what I'm going to do
2:33now is give it a lot of information and
2:36call this one the, uh, series bible.
2:47And we're going to call this one world
2:50building.
2:54And this one, oh, I don't want to, wow,
2:58let me see here.
2:59Was there a way to import? Oh, I see.
3:03That is okay.
3:05So, what I'll do is, right now I have
3:08this information right here,
3:10and I'm going to title it. Uh, we're
3:12going to say series bible.
3:24And we're going to save it. And then
3:27what I'm going to do is I'm going to
3:28have to go out because I'm sure they
3:30just haven't figured out that they
3:32should probably give you the ability to
3:34import certain documents in, which I'm
3:36sure they will do at a later time. What
3:38I'm going to do is now that I'm in here,
3:41I'm going to go inside of Hello
3:42Universe. We're going to call this one
3:44book one.
3:45And we're going to go, and since we are
3:48trying to make sure we adhere to the
3:50sci-fi tropes and stuff like that. We
3:52are going with not military sci-fi. Ooh.
3:57This is going to be a little bit tricky
3:59because I am doing a crazy epic thing.
4:02So, we're going to go sci-fi genre.
4:06Uh what's the core of my idea? The core
4:08of my idea is the solar system is a
4:10powder keg and there are over 700
4:13habitats with over a billion people
4:15floating around and the only resource
4:17they have is the Earth.
4:19And if they can't break away, something
4:21bad's going to happen. And I'm going to
4:23put adult
4:29create book and book one's in there. And
4:32now I get to import some files. And the
4:36reason I did that book really quick was
4:39because I wanted to import specific
4:41files. Let me see here from my Dropbox
4:45inside of my second brain.
4:47Now, here's an interesting thing. When
4:49you're importing something, you can
4:51import it inside of the plot, the
4:54characters. It could be part of the
4:56manuscript and if it is part of the
4:57manuscript, you can import it as a
5:00manuscript and split it into chapters if
5:02you haven't split everything into
5:04chapters before. Just a little
5:06behind-the-scenes tidbit. Remember, I'm
5:08just importing this because I'm sure at
5:10some point they're going to have a way
5:12for you to import
5:13>> [laughter]
5:13>> things straight into uh the overall
5:17thing. Now, I'm going to take this and
5:19copy all of it. Okay. And now I'm going
5:22to go all the way back up to the Lucky 7
5:25universe. I'm going to go back into the
5:27series Bible. And actually, what we're
5:30probably going to do is we probably
5:31should rename it something else.
5:34But I'm going to paste in all of this
5:36information right here and back out.
5:40Sci-fi book one. And now you have all of
5:44your information and it is completely in
5:47there and ready to be used
5:50as part of the overall way that a
5:55chatbot that is actually sitting inside
5:57of Storyhackers can use it. So, we're
5:58going to go into Hello World again.
6:00We're going to go into book one,
6:03right? And I'm actually going to take
6:06this, and I'm going to delete this
6:08because there is a chatbot over here,
6:11and I want to add context. And what
6:14we're going to do is we're going to add
6:15the series Bible, which is at the top,
6:18right? Inside of It's one of the main
6:21documents that you can draw from. Now, I
6:23can have a conversation with it. All
6:24right, let's talk about the story that
6:27we're going to do in this first book.
6:30And we are off to the races. It's having
6:32a conversation with me now, and now I
6:34can develop this into something even
6:37more. All right, says absolutely, there
6:39let's develop the story before drafting
6:42the prose. For the first book, Assembly,
6:44the central spine appears to be John
6:47survives an assassination attempt, and
6:51let's see. Ending with Michael's death
6:53and John inheriting the mission. This
6:55gives us several strong story engines.
6:58External plot, political, personal,
7:02relationship, moral tension,
7:04a hard sci-fi heist thriller, a family
7:07crime drama, a political conspiracy, a
7:10character-driven survival story, a blend
7:14with one of those serving as the
7:16dominant mode. Which one do we want to
7:18do? So, hard sci-fi heist thriller.
7:22Salvage missions, illegal components,
7:24betrayal, and escalating sabotage, or
7:28are we talking about John succession
7:31into the One Syndicate, or are we
7:33talking about the political conspiracy
7:35thriller where the Union, the Servants,
7:37and hidden control of the Habitats? I
7:40have to say I'm more into the idea of
7:43this being a bit of a thriller and a
7:45heist thing. So, we're going to go with
7:47the heist thing. We're going to do this
7:49and copy. Now, remember I've set up this
7:52agent that I'm working with over in the
7:54corner and that's what this is is it's
7:56an it is an agent that has access to
7:58specific files so that it can
8:00intelligently figure out what you want
8:03to do with your story. It's really a
8:05really great way to do this. I was
8:07really happy when he included agents in
8:09this and it really is really cool. All
8:12right. What I want to do is paste this
8:15in and this is all from the story that I
8:17already have built and the Bible and the
8:20whole nine yards. So, I'm really excited
8:22about that part of it. Let's see here
8:24and now one of the biggest things that
8:27you can do at this point is validate
8:29what the agent is going to give you.
8:32Once you have validated that this agent
8:35is kind of writing the story the way
8:37that you intended it from your documents
8:39that you built in the first place,
8:41that's when things start getting really
8:43exciting. As you can see right over
8:45here, it spent a lot of time kind of
8:48writing out everything about the story
8:50now that we made a nice exciting sort of
8:54idea of it being a heist story with
8:56sabotage and people who do you trust and
8:59all of that stuff. Now, we're going to
9:00take this idea after you have validated
9:03it and we are going to add it. At the
9:06bottom it says right here insert into
9:08document or copy. Right? So, you could
9:11either copy this and take it up a level
9:14or you could insert it into a document.
9:17So, I'm going to click on insert. Oh, I
9:21have to create a new document here
9:24and this new document is going to be the
9:26plot and we're going to call this plot
9:30and
9:31then we're going to insert this into
9:33this document and now we have this
9:35entire thing with the plot and all of
9:38the escalating this that and the other.
9:40Okay, now what I want to do is ask it
9:43some specific questions over here. Is it
9:45possible for us to flesh out all of the
9:49characters and stuff like that from the
9:51information you now have so that we can
9:54put it in here for reference in this
9:57book and maybe
9:59other references for as high as the
10:01series and everything goes and for the
10:03series and everything else that goes on.
10:06Now, we're having another conversation
10:08with it in order for it to give us a lot
10:12of information that we now need for each
10:14one of the characters and everything.
10:16And remember, this whole thing is being
10:17powered by Open Router. So, if you have
10:20an Open Router key and you put some
10:22money in there, you can have yourself a
10:24nice conversation with whatever agent
10:25you set up in the corner. So, this agent
10:27can be set up as any under any sort of
10:31intelligence. You can use Codex, you can
10:33use Gemini, you can use whatever you
10:35want. Don't have to use the defaults,
10:37but I tell you, there are a lot of
10:39defaults that really work well. Now, all
10:41of this information here is all of the
10:45characters and all of the stuff. All
10:47right, so let's take a quick peek
10:49at what this says. Yes, we can build a
10:52living story Bible for assembly on the
10:54entire Lucky Seven series using the
10:56existing documents as canon and clearly
10:59marking anything we add as either
11:01confirmed, provisional, or still
11:03undecided. So, a bunch of characters,
11:06Lucky Seven character series references.
11:09Now, as you can see as we continue to go
11:11through this process, this is all stuff
11:13that can be moved into documents as you
11:16move through this story and I'm just
11:19expanding on it now. Remember, you're
11:21validating every moment that you can.
11:23You're validating. And this is how you
11:27start to really, really get a lot of
11:30information. So, we've got the plot,
11:32right here. This level, we have the
11:35plot. What I'd like to do, let's see,
11:38look at the bottom here and see what it
11:41says. The next useful step would be to
11:43turn these into a formal canon document
11:46beginning with the five principal
11:48characters and then adding the
11:50supporting cast factions and book by
11:53book arcs. We should treat every
11:55resolved item as a deliberate decision
11:57rather than allowing continuity to
12:00emerge accidentally during drafting.
12:03Okay. So, what we'll do,
12:06we've got the plot here, we've got the
12:08series Bible, and I'm going to say to
12:10it, let's do that. Let's go ahead on and
12:14start doing this one by one. Let's do
12:17the first one. And then you are working
12:19your way through your plot, your book,
12:23and all of this information is yours.
12:26Every single part of this information is
12:28yours. And right here, we are now
12:30working on John. John's entire character
12:33is being fleshed out right in front of
12:35me. And what I want to do is I'm going
12:38to copy this, take it into 11 Labs, and
12:41as I'm going to a thing this afternoon
12:44with some friends, I'm going to listen
12:46to this in the car on the way there. And
12:49I will get a better idea of who John is,
12:52at least what the artificial
12:54intelligence thinks John is, and see if
12:56that is the same thing as what I think
12:59John is. So, like I said to you, this is
13:02a very exciting and easy and interesting
13:06way to use an agent to actually help you
13:09build your story in an in an even better
13:12way. And the thing that makes it an
13:13agent is that it builds this thing for
13:16you over in the corner. And then you can
13:18take that information and put it
13:20straight into all of your documents and
13:23everything is organized and you start
13:25really building your story out. That is
13:28how you bring your own story right there
13:31the big series and start breaking it
13:33down and bringing it into Story Hacker
13:36OS. All right, next time we are going to
13:39go and do this thing from scratch. We're
13:42going to ideate straight from scratch
13:45and we're going to build it out. Now
13:47that you've seen how this thing
13:48initially starts with a story that you
13:50have, how about we see how you do with a
13:54story that you don't have, which is
13:56really where it starts doing crazy
13:57things. Where you would be able to use
13:59things like the book builder skill, the
14:02book builder where you can create a
14:05dossier from just a idea in your head
14:08and really start working against all of
14:11the creativity that you have. I want you
14:13to have this adversary and this
14:16companion working with you all at one
14:18time. That would be the artificial
14:20intelligence giving you a real chance to
14:23flesh out your story. And that is the
14:25best thing that I can tell you about
14:27Story Hacker OS is that it really gives
14:29you an opportunity to flesh everything
14:32out. All right, I will see you all in
14:34the next video when we are going to be
14:36making a story from scratch.