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AI-Powered Book Series

How to Write an AI-Powered Book Session #3

Overview

Mark de Grasse’s Day 3 workshop on “How to Write an AI-Powered Book” focuses on creating an authentic book using AI as a tool rather than letting AI generate the entire content. The session covers outlining a book and writing the first chapter, emphasizing that authors should maintain their unique ideas and frameworks while using AI to assist the writing process.

Key points from the session:

  • Mark emphasizes that a book is only valuable if it contains the author’s unique ideas. The AI should help articulate ideas, not generate them.
  • Mark demonstrates his process for developing book structure using both Claude and Perplexity AI to research and generate outline options.
  • The workshop shows how to build on previous work (brand pillars, brand voice, framework) to create a cohesive book structure.
  • Mark stresses the importance of providing real stories, statistics, and personal experiences rather than letting AI fabricate content.
  • The process involves creating separate chapters in different chats and continuously updating the project knowledge with completed chapters.

Homework

  • Write your entire book using the chapter-by-chapter process demonstrated
  • Create a detailed outline using the hybrid structure approach
  • Add your personal stories, experiences, and recommendations to each chapter
  • Research and incorporate verifiable statistics for each chapter
  • Use the style and framework developed in previous sessions for consistency
  • Save completed chapters to your project knowledge before starting new ones

Assets

Assets

  • Always On-Brand book by Mark de Grasse
  • AI-interactive edition of Always On-Brand
  • Flippable PDF book
  • Audio edition (using Descript)
  • Brand pillars document
  • Brand voice document
  • Book framework document
  • Prologue document
  • Book outline structure

Prompts

  • Prologue creation prompt:
    “I want to write a detailed prologue for a new book. Please review the following prologue type and write the prologue for it. I want this to be at least 1500 words.”
  • Book outline research prompt (for Perplexity):
    “Please research books on the topic of Parenthood and autism. I need an outline for my new book that considers the information attached and provides a list of five outline variations that were used by successful books on the same subject. Name the outline type, summarize it, and provide advantages and disadvantages using them for my book.”
  • Statistics research prompt (for Perplexity):
    “Create a list of verifiable and official statistics in regards to the age of children when they are diagnosed with autism.”

Tools Used

  • Claude for content generation and refinement
  • Perplexity AI for research and statistics
  • Google Drive for document organization
  • Descript for audio book creation