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0:00If I had to write 20 fulllength books
0:02with AI in just one year, and they still
0:05had to be good enough that readers
0:07begged for the next one, here is exactly
0:09how I would do it. This is not theory.
0:12This is a 13-day repeatable system that
0:14you can run on loop to hit 20 plus
0:17novels a year without burning out,
0:19spamming trash, or selling your soul to
0:21the algorithm. Stick with me because I'm
0:22going to walk you through every single
0:24day and then I'll show you how to plug
0:25into the templates and automations that
0:27I actually use inside of my Story Hacker
0:29Gold membership. Most authors wildly
0:31underestimate what they can write in a
0:33year and wildly overestimate how much
0:36raw inspiration they need for those
0:39projects. Here is the actual math.
0:41You've got 365 days. If we take weekends
0:44off, that's about 261 working days.
0:47Divide that by 20 books and you get
0:49roughly 13 working days per book. If we
0:52shoot for about 75 to 80,000 words, that
0:54means you need to average around 6,000
0:56words of clean edited story per working
0:58day for each project cycle. I pick 75 to
1:0080,000 words because that is roughly the
1:02average of books out there. That's what
1:04I shoot for, even though it might be
1:06less for some genres like certain
1:07romance genres or might be more in other
1:10genres like fantasy. And that all sounds
1:12insane until you realize three things.
1:14Number one, you write in a series, not
1:17standalones. Number two, you stay in one
1:19genre until it works. And number three,
1:22you let AI and automations do the leg
1:24work, and you spend most of your time
1:25being the director, not the typest. Now,
1:28let me show you what these 13 days
1:30actually look like. First, you have a
1:32big decision to make. 20 books does not
1:34mean 20 totally different worlds. If I
1:36had to do this under pressure, I'd plan
1:38for a max of four to five series in the
1:41same broad genre. So, for example, all
1:44romance or all thriller or all fantasy.
1:47Why would I do this? Because switching
1:49genres is like starting an entirely new
1:50business. Different reader expectations,
1:53different tropes, pacing, cover styles,
1:56everything shifts. And it's brutally
1:58hard to manage multiple businesses at
2:00once. So, I'd pick one lane and stay
2:02there for the full year. Second, I would
2:06commit to a series, multiple series,
2:08because when you write a series, your
2:10characters and world and tone carry
2:12over. Book one does the heavy lifting.
2:14Like books two and five are faster
2:16because of the groundwork that already
2:17exists. And AI can stay invoice much
2:20more easily when the inputs are
2:22consistent. And you could absolutely do
2:24like a 20 book series, although that
2:26might be too much when you're just
2:27starting out and doesn't work for all
2:29type of genres. So I would maybe aim for
2:32four or five in there. Now even with AI,
2:36this is not a click a button, get a book
2:38kind of situation. If that were your
2:40mindset, you could actually probably do
2:42this in 1 to two days, but
2:44realistically, you're looking at around
2:45two focused hours per working day, some
2:48days more. And the AI makes the draft
2:50faster, but it does not replace your
2:52taste and your storytelling uh or any of
2:54that. So, with that frame, let's walk
2:57through this whole thing day by day. Day
2:59one is developing your story dossier.
3:01This is essentially about uh taking all
3:04of your jumbled ideas and focusing them
3:06into something that works for a single
3:09novel. It's all about thinking clearly
3:11before you write anything. What I would
3:12do is dump all of my ideas into a single
3:14document. Then use an AI dossier prompt,
3:18which I have in my my prompt list, to
3:20turn that mess into a structured plan
3:23complete with the genre, subgenre, and
3:26the core tropes, the one-s sentence
3:28premise, your theme, your point of view,
3:31and your tense, uh, all of the major
3:33beats of the story. This is about
3:35turning a vague idea into a story
3:36blueprint. Another thing I would
3:38probably do on day one is to buy or
3:41commission the cover for your book. Now,
3:44why so early? Because a pro cover locks
3:47the genre and audience in your mind. It
3:49also keeps you motivated. You're not
3:51maybe writing a book. You're finishing
3:53the book that you already have a cover
3:55for. And if you're using AI for cover
3:57concepts, that's totally fine, but I
3:59still recommend a human designer to nail
4:02genre cues because they know the genre
4:04better than you, and typography, which
4:06most authors mess up. Your cover is a
4:08sales device, not just a pretty picture
4:10that shows a scene from your book. This
4:13is a poster for your book. And if you
4:15don't get it right, your book will not
4:18sell no matter how much of a ad budget
4:20you give it. All right, so day two is
4:23now about taking that story dossier that
4:24we developed in day one and fleshing it
4:27out a little bit. It's about making the
4:29story cast and the stage feel real. So,
4:32we want to start out by fleshing out all
4:33of the major characters. figure out what
4:35their goal is, their fear, their
4:37backstory, their story arc about how
4:39they change from page one to the end.
4:41And then we want to look at the world
4:42building as well and do targeted world
4:44building. Only focus on what this book
4:47actually needs for world building. These
4:50are the locations you'll use, the rules
4:51of magic or tech that matter, uh
4:54cultural beats that show up on page. Do
4:56not fall into worldbuilding itis. If it
5:00doesn't earn words in this novel, it's a
5:02distraction. We want to capture the
5:04broad series level notes somewhere else.
5:06Day two is about only what you need to
5:08tell this specific story. If you're
5:10writing book two or three in the series,
5:12then days one and two might compress.
5:14You might be able to do all of this in
5:16one day because your world and your cast
5:18might be already mostly defined. All
5:20right, day three is about outlining,
5:22especially the first half of your
5:24outline because now we zoom in and we
5:26use AI to generate a scene by scene
5:28outline based on any templates you might
5:30have like my 40 chapter plot module as
5:32well as your dossier. That first pass
5:35might take just a few minutes to
5:36generate, but your job is to rewrite it
5:38ruthlessly because remember this is a
5:41general rule for writing with AI. If
5:43it's not in your outline, it probably
5:45won't end up in the book. So for each
5:48scene in the first half, we want to
5:49clarify who wants what in this scene,
5:52what goes wrong, how does this push the
5:54plot or deepen a character, what new
5:56character does it raise for the reader,
5:59etc. You want beats that are specific
6:01enough that future you and the AI know
6:03exactly what happens, but loose enough
6:06to allow discovery in the pros part of
6:08it. Quick pause. If you're an author who
6:10wants to start writing more books, I put
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6:22answer a couple quick questions and I'll
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6:33There's no commitment to join, though,
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6:37way. All right, back to the video. Day
6:39four is finishing your outline, the
6:41second half of the book. Make sure that
6:43the midpoint, the darks moments, the
6:45climax aren't just bigger fights, but
6:48actually include higher stakes and
6:51bigger choices. Thread in subplots and
6:53series hooks at the scene level. And by
6:55the end of day four, you should be able
6:57to read your outline and feel like you
6:58just experienced a stripped down version
7:00of the book. Remember, if the outline is
7:02boring, the draft will be worse. So fix
7:05it now before you move on. Now days 5
7:08through 9 are where AI earns its keep.
7:10Your goal is about 15,000 edited words
7:13per day for 5 days. That gets you to
7:15about 75,000 words. Now here's how I'd
7:18run it. First, I'd work in one to two
7:20chapter chunks at a time. And for each
7:22chunk, I'd feed the AI the dossier, the
7:26character bios, and the relevant section
7:28of your outline. And then generate the
7:30rough chapter text. Then edit
7:32aggressively. Fix your voice and your
7:35rhythm and your dialogue. Sharpen the
7:37emotions and sensory details. Cut
7:39repetition and AI isms and fluff. And
7:42once you've edited a chunk, use that
7:43edited text as context for the next
7:46generation. So that AI keeps matching
7:49your updated style and the new
7:50continuity. I would expect at least two
7:52plus focused hours per day here, even
7:54with AI helping. The generation is
7:56relatively fast, but the judgments and
7:59your editing is where you win. And yes,
8:0315,000 words in a day is possible once
8:05you get good at this. I've actually done
8:0720,000 words in a day where I edited an
8:0980,000word novel in four days, but that
8:12only works if your pre-work is tight and
8:15dialed in. So, day 10, you're already
8:17done with the actual book, but there's
8:19still a lot more that needs to be done
8:20because a book isn't done when the draft
8:22is finished. It's done when it's ready
8:25for a reader to buy. On day 10, I would
8:28run a final proofreading pass with AI to
8:30specifically look for continuity issues,
8:34name or timeline errors, repeated
8:36phrases, etc. And then I'd use AI to
8:39generate marketing materials by
8:40analyzing the finished manuscript. I
8:42actually have an automation that does
8:43all of this uh and generates the back of
8:46the book description, your any keyword
8:49ideas that you might be able to plug in
8:51a email launch sequence, add copy
8:53variations, etc. Then I would move the
8:56manuscript into a formatter like Vellum
8:58or Attekus and produce a clean formatted
9:02version of the book uh both the ebook
9:05for publishing the EPUB file as well as
9:08a PDF for the paperback interior. Ugly
9:10formatting kills credibility instantly
9:13and I see it happen all the time. So
9:16don't lose readers on something that is
9:17100% fixable and honestly not that hard
9:20to do. I also wouldn't hire anybody to
9:22do this because it is a relatively easy
9:24thing to do for a measly $147 for
9:28Attekus, for example, which is it's pays
9:30itself back after just like three or
9:32four formatted books. Now, day 11 is
9:36figuring out the final fit of your
9:38cover. You have already thought through
9:40your cover concept, but now you need to
9:41make sure it fits. If you have a
9:43designer, finalize the full wrap with
9:45the correct spine width for your page
9:47count and add your back cover copy and
9:50export your print ready files. If you're
9:52diying it with a tool like Photoshop or
9:56Affinity, plan on the first day to
9:58adjust layout for the print trim sizes.
10:00Make sure to check the legibility at the
10:02thumbnail size. Make sure it clearly
10:04screams your genre because that's the
10:06most important thing. And be sure not to
10:09rush uh because your cover and your
10:11description will sell far more books
10:13than a 0.1 star difference in pros
10:15polish. Now day 12 is when you hit
10:17publish. You start by uploading your
10:19book to Amazon. That includes your
10:21manuscript, your ebook and paperback
10:23files, your cover, your metadata like
10:26your categories and keywords and your
10:27description and author bio, all of that.
10:30If you're just starting, I would go
10:31Amazon only at first. just one platform,
10:35one set of rules, one dashboard to
10:37learn. And once you consistently sell
10:39there, then you can consider going wide
10:42or selling direct or any of the other
10:44options. But this is the moment when you
10:47hit publish, then take a moment to
10:49actually celebrate because most people
10:51don't get this far. Now, you may have
10:53published it on day 12, but the actual
10:55launch day is day 13 because it can
10:57sometimes take a little while for Amazon
10:59to actually go through and publish your
11:01book. So, day 13 is launch day. If I had
11:03to hit 20 books a year, I would keep the
11:05launch system very simple and
11:07repeatable. So, I would start by if you
11:09have an email list, email the readers
11:12with a storydriven launch email, a clear
11:15link to buy. Um, but if you don't have a
11:18list yet, there are tools out there like
11:22story origin or bookfunnel where you can
11:24engage in newsletter swaps or group
11:26promotions to to build that list a
11:28little bit faster. And then I would
11:31actually for for this new book that
11:33you've just published, I would set up a
11:34few low-budget ads on Amazon or Facebook
11:38or both to start the data flowing that
11:40this just helps the the AI that helps to
11:43sell these books on these platforms like
11:45Amazon to know who are the kind of
11:48people actually buying this book. And
11:51over time, as you start to figure out
11:52what kind of ads work, what headlines
11:54work, and all of that, you can slowly
11:56start to increase your budget. and that
11:58increases the number of sales you get
12:00and then it it just becomes a really
12:02slow but steadily moving process. I
12:05would also schedule a couple of social
12:06posts that highlight the hook of the
12:08book, your series angle, a compelling
12:10excerpt, things uh like that. Now,
12:13notice what I have not mentioned yet,
12:15reviews. Early on, your main job is
12:17sales, not reviews. Reviews largely
12:20follow sales. As your email list grows,
12:22you can start offering advanced copies
12:24to a small group who love leaving honest
12:26reviews. And definitely avoid any kind
12:29of businesses that offer to get you
12:31reviews in exchange for money. Just sell
12:34more books and regularly ask your reader
12:36to review books in the back matter or
12:38via your email list. So that's the
12:4013-day loop that I would run if I
12:42absolutely had to write 20 books with AI
12:45in a single year. Four to five series,
12:47one genre, heavy thinking and outlining
12:50out upfront, five days of focused AI
12:52assisted drafting, three days to turn
12:55the manuscript into a real sellable
12:57product. And you may have seen a theme
12:59here. AI does the heavy lifting.
13:01Templates keep you from reinventing the
13:03wheel. And your actual job is to make
13:05the story yours. If you want help doing
13:08this in your own genre with battle
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13:13learning curve, that's exactly what we
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13:30strong instead of just generic. And then
13:32we show you how to automate the boring
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13:36on the things that light you up the most
13:39and making the story your own. And if
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13:47us. Thanks for watching and I'll see you
13:49in the next