Jason Hamilton - Everything you need to know about novelcrafter

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Jason

Hamilton

-

Everything

you

need

to

know

about

novelcrafter

Introduction

0:00

if

you

want

the

best

tool

to

facilitate

not

only

writing

with

AI

but

keeping

track

of

every

little

component

of

your

0:07

novel

including

all

your

your

characters

and

locations

and

everything

then

you're

going

to

want

to

pay

attention

to

this

0:12

video

where

I'm

going

to

give

you

basically

everything

I

know

about

novel

crafter

all

in

one

video

this

is

a

full

0:17

course

video

about

novel

crafter

which

I

believe

to

be

the

best

tool

for

writing

0:23

with

AI

in

20124

let's

get

into

it

[Music]

0:30

so

this

is

a

lot

like

some

of

the

other

full

course

videos

that

I've

done

here's

a

brief

list

of

everything

that

we're

going

to

be

covering

in

this

video

but

0:37

don't

worry

there

will

be

time

stamps

down

below

so

if

there's

a

specific

section

that

you

want

to

look

up

you

can

0:43

go

ahead

and

just

look

at

those

time

stamps

most

videos

about

writing

with

AI

come

from

a

lot

of

uh

I

can

only

0:49

describe

them

as

like

dude

Bros

online

that

just

pick

a

random

tool

maybe

it's

a

tool

that's

paying

them

a

high

0:55

affiliate

commission

and

they

just

talk

about

it

for

a

little

while

but

don't

actually

have

any

idea

of

what

it

takes

1:01

to

write

an

actual

novel

now

my

name

is

Jason

I

worked

at

Kindle

prer

for

3

years

helping

authors

learn

how

to

1:06

self-publish

and

write

and

Market

their

books

and

I've

also

written

15

books

of

my

own

and

Counting

and

novel

crafter

1:13

has

ended

up

being

my

favorite

tool

for

writing

books

especially

for

writing

fiction

so

with

that

let's

walk

you

1:19

--- page 2 ---

through

everything

you

need

to

know

about

novel

crafter

all

right

so

this

is

novel

crafter

right

here

so

I

thought

1:25

we'd

start

by

exploring

some

of

the

many

pricing

options

and

what

each

give

you

and

we'll

talk

more

in

depth

with

each

Part

1:

General

Tour

1:31

of

these

as

we

go

along

but

there

are

basically

four

different

options

here

the

first

one

I

think

most

of

you

don't

1:38

actually

need

to

worry

about

too

much

and

this

is

scribe

it's

$4

a

month

or

if

1:43

you

get

it

annually

it's

$40

annually

and

basically

all

of

these

plans

are

the

1:49

same

as

if

you

did

10

months

in

a

year

so

you

get

two

months

off

for

every

single

one

of

these

plans

I'm

going

to

1:55

mention

it

now

you

will

save

more

if

you

do

it

annually

but

you

will

also

I

mean

2:01

you're

also

paying

more

upfront

and

so

if

you

just

want

to

try

it

out

then

you

can

go

with

the

monthly

plans

the

$4

2:07

plan

gives

you

most

of

the

features

that

novel

craft

offers

except

you

can't

use

2:12

AI

with

it

and

the

reason

for

that

is

because

novel

crafter

is

actually

built

to

be

a

tool

where

you

don't

have

to

use

2:18

AI

for

it

it

can

just

be

a

writing

tool

to

help

you

organize

all

of

your

different

thoughts

and

keep

it

all

in

2:25

one

place

as

you're

writing

your

novel

which

is

actually

I

actually

do

write

my

novels

here

in

novel

at

this

point

it's

2:30

basically

taken

over

from

other

options

like

word

or

Google

Docs

or

scrier

for

2:36

me

personally

and

the

fact

that

it

has

AI

is

just

a

bonus

because

AI

is

something

that

I

use

here

and

there

but

2:42

if

you

wanted

to

only

use

it

as

a

writing

tool

and

not

have

access

to

any

of

the

AI

tools

you

could

just

go

with

2:48

--- page 3 ---

the

$4

tier

here

now

the

$8

tier

gives

you

pretty

much

everything

you

get

on

the

$4

tier

except

it

gives

you

the

AI

2:55

now

I

want

to

be

clear

here

novel

crafter

doesn't

actually

Supply

you

with

the

AI

words

okay

the

reason

that

novel

3:02

crafter

is

so

cheap

here

at

$8

a

month

as

opposed

to

the

$30

that

other

tools

3:08

like

pseudo

right

might

charge

is

because

you're

not

actually

paying

for

the

AI

words

right

here

the

AI

words

the

3:15

tokens

of

the

AI

because

it

costs

money

every

time

the

AI

is

generated

that

has

3:20

to

be

paid

for

elsewhere

and

I'll

walk

you

through

the

entire

process

of

how

to

connect

the

different

tools

to

bring

the

3:26

AI

into

novel

crafter

but

that's

what

this

means

right

here

when

it

says

bring

your

own

key

that's

what

that

means

is

3:33

that

you'll

get

a

thirdparty

AI

tool

bring

it

into

to

novel

crafter

and

then

you'll

be

paying

for

the

AI

as

you

go

3:40

there

will

not

be

a

set

allotment

of

AI

that

you

get

every

month

you

can

basically

use

the

AI

to

an

unlimited

3:47

degree

but

the

only

caveat

to

that

is

that

you

have

to

be

paying

for

the

AI

as

3:52

you

go

along

it's

pay

as

you

go

now

the

good

news

is

when

you

are

paying

for

AI

in

a

pay

as

you

go

manner

you're

4:00

actually

doing

it

very

very

cheap

it

might

sound

like

something

to

be

worried

4:05

about

that

you

have

to

pay

extra

in

addition

to

these

$8

a

month

in

order

to

pay

as

you

go

with

the

AI

but

most

of

4:12

the

AI

tools

out

there

the

chat

Bots

like

chaty

BT

Claud

Pro

Gemini

Pro

all

4:17

of

those

tools

cost

about

on

average

$20

a

month

and

I

use

AI

quite

heavily

in

4:22

novel

crafter

and

I

have

never

paid

more

than

$20

a

month

in

that

entire

time

in

fact

usually

it's

more

like5

or6

or

$7

a

4:30

month

if

you

really

really

push

it

and

you're

using

some

of

the

higher

more

pricier

models

you

might

get

it

above

--- page 4 ---

4:36

that

$20

a

month

but

in

actuality

and

actual

function

it's

very

rare

to

pay

4:42

more

than

$20

a

month

but

it

will

depend

on

you

the

good

news

is

you

can

cap

it

so

if

you're

using

a

tool

like

open

4:48

router

to

bring

the

AI

in

you

can

cap

it

at

say

$10

a

month

if

you

don't

want

to

exceed

that

and

it

will

stop

as

soon

as

4:55

you

reach

that

$10

limit

so

you

won't

end

up

paying

a

lot

more

than

you

planned

for

basically

so

that

is

what

5:02

you

get

with

the

hobbyist

and

this

is

what

I'm

going

to

recommend

for

most

people

who

really

want

to

save

money

but

5:08

there

is

one

major

feature

that

I

really

like

that

you

get

in

the

Artisan

plan

5:13

which

is

an

additional

$6

a

month

so

you

get

everything

here

from

the

previous

two

things

plus

you

get

Workshop

5:18

features

and

advanced

review

features

and

what

that

means

is

and

I'll

show

this

off

a

little

bit

in

a

minute

but

5:24

what

it

means

is

that

you'll

get

access

to

this

tab

here

known

as

the

chat

5:30

which

gives

you

a

whole

bunch

of

additional

options

that

you

can

use

the

AI

inside

of

Novel

crafter

and

it

is

5:37

actually

quite

useful

I

use

it

quite

a

bit

so

I

would

personally

go

with

this

Artisan

plan

if

I

can

and

I

do

so

this

5:45

is

the

one

I

would

recommend

for

most

authors

if

you

want

to

save

just

a

little

bit

more

money

then

you

can

go

5:50

down

to

the

hobbyist

tier

that

one

will

work

as

well

there

is

also

the

specialist

tier

which

gives

you

everything

else

plus

shared

series

and

5:57

universes

plus

collaborative

writing

so

there

are

a

number

of

features

that

if

6:03

you

have

say

a

whole

series

that

you're

working

on

and

you

want

to

bring

characters

from

one

to

another

without

6:09

having

to

do

a

lot

of

copy

pasting

and

to

have

basically

characters

or

items

that

span

the

series

as

a

whole

you

can

--- page 5 ---

6:16

do

that

also

if

you're

co-writing

a

book

with

somebody

and

you

want

to

give

them

access

to

your

book

as

well

that

also

6:23

has

to

be

done

at

the

specialist

here

which

is

$20

a

month

or

of

course

$200

a

year

if

you're

doing

the

annual

and

6:30

that's

basically

the

difference

there

isn't

a

whole

lot

between

the

four

different

tiers

I

would

suggest

probably

6:36

Artisan

as

being

the

main

tier

for

most

people

and

pretty

much

everything

that

you'll

see

me

do

today

will

be

possible

6:43

in

The

Artisan

tier

if

it

isn't

then

I

will

be

sure

to

point

that

out

all

right

so

let's

do

a

little

bit

of

tour

of

what

6:49

novel

crafter

has

to

offer

and

everything

that

you

can

find

there

first

thing

you

want

to

do

here

is

say

create

a

novel

you

can

also

import

a

novel

you

6:57

might

have

to

adjust

a

few

things

I've

found

that

importing

is

always

a

messy

business

from

not

just

novel

crafter

but

7:03

any

tool

out

there

when

you're

importing

books

it

usually

gets

a

few

things

wrong

so

you'll

might

have

to

do

a

little

bit

of

cleanup

but

you

can

import

say

a

word

7:10

doc

or

something

into

here

and

it

should

be

able

to

pull

a

lot

of

that

in

but

we're

just

going

to

create

a

novel

here

7:15

you

can

use

a

template

novel

if

you

have

set

up

different

templates

um

so

you

can

clone

things

from

other

series

or

novels

7:22

that

you've

had

basically

if

you

want

to

clone

all

of

that

stuff

you

could

do

that

we're

just

going

to

leave

this

new

novel

here

but

you

can

change

the

title

7:29

at

any

time

time

you

put

your

author

or

your

pen

name

you

can

select

the

series

if

you

have

a

series

and

then

you

say

7:35

create

novel

and

you

brought

to

this

empty

space

and

this

is

what

it

looks

like

with

nothing

here

now

I'm

going

to

go

7:42

into

more

depth

on

everything

here

in

just

a

second

but

let's

start

by

just

labeling

every

little

piece

so

you

7:48

--- page 6 ---

understand

just

from

a

layout

perspective

where

everything

is

over

here

you

have

codex

and

Snippets

the

7:54

Codex

is

basically

where

you

put

information

about

your

characters

and

things

like

that

Snippets

is

where

you

Codex/Snippets

7:59

put

just

random

notes

that

you

may

have

I

tend

to

find

myself

putting

together

a

8:05

number

of

Snippets

and

putting

them

here

if

you

see

this

one

that

says

chat

this

is

where

you'll

see

different

chats

you

8:11

may

have

had

if

you

have

that

Artisan

tier

and

you

access

the

chats

by

going

here

and

they're

accessible

either

from

8:17

here

or

from

here

where

you

can

kind

of

just

see

them

and

and

place

them

there

if

you

want

to

if

you

need

them

for

8:23

quick

access

another

important

thing

to

look

at

here

is

the

settings

so

you'll

find

those

right

here

this

little

gear

I

8:29

on

and

this

is

where

you

can

change

your

novel

your

author

name

uh

your

series

you

can

even

delete

the

novel

here

Settings

8:35

although

of

course

be

careful

with

that

you

can

upload

a

cover

and

in

the

settings

you'll

have

these

four

tabs

8:41

you've

got

writing

this

one

is

useful

especially

when

you're

setting

up

your

novel

at

first

CU

you

can

select

like

8:47

what's

the

point

of

view

for

the

book

what's

the

language

what's

the

tense

any

presets

that

you

have

here

if

you

have

8:54

the

collaboration

that

you

get

on

that

highest

tier

you

can

add

the

people

that

you

want

tooll

collaborate

with

in

here

9:01

and

then

if

you

want

to

export

your

novel

you

can

do

so

here

but

right

now

there's

no

content

so

there's

nothing

to

9:06

--- page 7 ---

export

but

you

can

do

that

from

this

tab

here

in

the

settings

as

well

so

that's

the

settings

and

over

here

of

course

is

9:12

the

Codex

and

the

Snippets

the

places

where

you'll

be

spending

the

most

time

are

these

tabs

here

at

the

top

and

these

9:19

are

pretty

straightforward

we'll

start

with

the

plan

tab

which

is

where

we

currently

are

and

where

you

will

usually

Plan

9:24

come

to

when

you

first

open

a

novel

uh

you'll

come

to

this

place

where

it

says

9:29

plan

and

this

is

basically

where

you

outline

your

book

if

you're

an

outliner

if

you're

not

an

outliner

then

that's

okay

you

can

kind

of

leave

this

blank

9:36

but

you

can

just

come

here

and

say

create

first

scene

and

start

putting

in

a

summary

of

what

happens

in

this

scene

9:41

if

you're

looking

for

AI

to

help

you

generate

ideas

for

this

scene

that

is

kind

of

a

separate

thing

it's

not

done

9:47

here

and

so

I

won't

get

into

that

at

this

particular

time

but

let's

say

you

already

know

what

happens

in

a

scene

you

can

put

the

summary

here

that'll

be

9:54

useful

for

the

AI

to

access

later

on

and

then

of

course

you

can

add

more

chapters

as

you

want

you'll

notice

this

has

been

10:01

automatically

categorized

under

act

one

you

can

add

other

acts

here

like

act

two

and

then

add

new

chapters

under

act

two

10:08

another

cool

thing

that

you

can

do

and

I'm

just

going

to

delete

these

for

now

is

you

can

come

here

and

say

create

10:15

from

outline

so

there

are

a

couple

of

templates

that

have

been

included

here

already

you

you

can

just

paste

your

10:22

outline

in

here

in

order

to

automatically

generate

everything

correctly

you'll

want

to

make

sure

it's

10:28

formatted

in

this

particular

way

with

the

example

that

it's

giving

you

here

and

if

you

do

that

it'll

automatically

10:34

--- page 8 ---

just

dump

everything

into

its

all

of

the

correct

places

but

you

can

also

choose

from

these

common

templates

so

for

10:39

instance

on

this

channel

I've

talked

about

Derek

Murphy's

24

chapter

novel

outline

a

lot

so

you

could

go

ahead

and

10:44

select

that

and

it

will

automatically

put

everything

here

and

all

you

would

have

to

do

is

fill

these

things

out

you

10:50

could

do

that

here

you

could

also

just

hit

create

and

it

will

create

the

spaces

for

all

of

the

different

chapters

for

10:55

you

and

then

you

can

just

add

your

summary

of

every

chapter

here

as

you

go

additionally

within

each

chapter

you

11:01

might

have

multiple

scenes

and

so

you

can

create

a

new

Scene

by

selecting

this

button

right

here

so

if

you

have

11:07

multiple

scenes

inside

of

one

chapter

you

can

just

manage

those

here

now

novel

crafter

is

one

of

those

tools

that

I

11:13

find

it

to

be

pretty

easy

to

get

started

but

difficult

to

master

and

which

is

what

most

good

software

tools

are

and

11:20

there

are

a

lot

of

like

little

details

that

we

could

really

get

down

into

the

weeds

of

for

instance

if

you

click

on

11:26

this

it

allows

you

to

do

things

like

disable

numerations

so

instead

of

saying

act

one

we

just

have

hero

and

Ordinary

11:32

World

right

or

we

can

enable

that

again

the

same

goes

for

any

of

the

chapters

you

can

just

disable

numeration

if

you

11:38

don't

want

them

to

be

numerated

maybe

you

want

them

to

just

have

a

title

that

they

can

use

that

can

all

go

there

you

11:43

can

also

copy

all

of

the

pros

copy

all

of

the

outline

summaries

that

you've

got

from

this

act

or

from

this

chapter

if

11:49

you

just

want

to

copy

all

of

the

outline

summaries

or

all

of

the

pros

from

this

chapter

you

can

just

do

it

from

here

and

11:54

if

you

click

this

editing

button

right

here

this

will

take

you

immediately

to

the

right

tab

up

here

so

you

can

start

to

actually

--- page 9 ---

12:01

write

the

scene

we're

not

going

to

do

that

just

yet

I'm

going

to

delete

these

scenes

12:06

here

but

you'll

notice

as

I'm

opening

these

up

that

there

are

a

lot

of

things

12:11

that

you

can

specify

here

at

the

scene

level

for

instance

you

can

set

a

custom

point

of

view

now

it's

possible

to

set

12:18

the

point

of

view

for

an

entire

novel

all

from

the

settings

so

if

you

have

a

12:24

book

that

you

know

that

the

point

of

view

is

going

to

be

from

one

person

the

entire

time

you

could

do

it

at

the

novel

12:29

level

but

if

you're

doing

say

a

third

person

limited

type

of

deal

then

in

that

12:34

case

you

would

want

to

set

it

at

the

scene

level

and

that's

what

you

do

here

you

just

say

set

custom

POV

and

you'll

12:40

select

your

characters

now

we

haven't

created

any

characters

yet

so

we

don't

see

that

option

available

here

to

us

but

12:46

we

could

just

select

like

third

person

limited

and

then

select

our

character

right

other

things

we

can

do

here

we

can

12:51

add

a

subtitle

we

can

exclude

this

from

the

AI

context

so

there

may

be

reasons

why

we

don't

want

the

AI

to

be

able

to

12:57

see

this

data

so

that

is

an

option

we

can

chat

with

this

scene

meaning

if

we

13:02

select

this

it'll

take

us

to

the

chat

here

and

we

can

just

chat

with

the

scene

which

basically

is

allowing

the

AI

to

13:09

look

at

that

scene

and

understand

the

context

of

the

scene

and

you

can

ask

it

questions

and

things

like

that

and

which

13:16

is

a

really

great

tool

for

editing

or

for

just

brainstorming

where

things

13:21

could

go

next

that

sort

of

thing

you

can

look

at

the

a

summary

of

everything

you've

done

with

this

scene

so

far

so

13:27

anytime

that

you've

edited

this

there's

contact

stored

for

that

for

both

the

summary

and

the

contents

and

of

course

13:32

--- page 10 ---

you

can

copy

the

scenes

Pros

export

the

scene

delete

the

scene

all

of

those

right

here

so

that's

the

plan

tab

the

13:39

next

one

we

want

to

look

at

here

is

the

right

tab

this

is

where

you're

going

to

be

spending

probably

most

of

your

time

Write

13:45

actually

writing

the

scenes

now

of

course

you

can

just

write

this

out

yourself

you

don't

have

to

use

AI

if

you

only

want

to

use

AI

as

a

brainstormer

or

13:52

as

an

editor

or

something

like

that

then

totally

disregard

everything

I'm

about

to

say

here

you

can

just

write

it

all

13:57

out

and

then

use

AI

in

other

ways

but

if

you

do

want

to

write

with

the

AI

all

you

do

is

do

a

backs

slash

here

and

select

14:04

something

um

from

one

of

these

options

here

you

have

an

option

for

a

scene

beat

which

is

where

you

give

it

a

summary

of

14:10

what

should

happen

next

and

then

it

writes

it

out

at

which

point

you

could

then

edit

it

down

and

things

like

that

14:15

you

could

just

ask

it

to

continue

writing

if

you

really

have

no

idea

what

should

happen

next

this

could

be

a

good

brainstorming

tool

where

it

just

allows

14:21

the

AI

to

sort

of

determine

what

happens

next

usually

I

don't

keep

any

of

that

but

it

sometimes

gives

me

some

good

14:26

ideas

for

what

might

happen

next

you

can

also

add

a

codex

Edition

so

this

is

where

you

can

actually

tell

the

AI

that

14:33

something

has

changed

about

a

character

and

I'll

get

more

into

depth

on

to

this

when

we

go

into

to

codex

you

can

create

14:40

a

horizontal

line

for

formatting

um

also

creating

a

section

which

could

just

be

basically

a

section

of

text

that

you've

14:47

shrunk

down

like

an

accordion

uh

or

it

gives

you

that

option

at

least

so

this

is

where

you

do

all

of

the

writing

you

14:52

don't

have

to

do

any

of

those

things

you

could

just

write

it

all

yourself

however

you

like

over

here

on

the

side

you'll

--- page 11 ---

14:58

see

the

summary

of

the

scenes

we

don't

have

anything

written

here

but

if

we

did

let's

just

add

something

here

U

Mary

has

15:06

her

little

lamb

and

now

you'll

see

that

is

listed

15:13

here

because

that

was

part

of

the

summary

in

the

plan

Tab

and

you

can

do

that

for

all

the

scenes

you'll

see

them

here

also

a

note

here

in

the

right

15:20

section

is

this

little

button

that

leads

to

actions

which

you'll

see

for

every

scene

allows

you

to

disable

15:27

numeration

and

basically

gives

you

all

of

the

same

options

that

we

covered

already

in

the

plan

tab

also

accessible

15:34

from

here

you

can

also

add

new

scenes

add

new

chapters

Etc

from

the

right

tab

15:39

next

we

have

the

chat

Tab

and

the

chat

tab

is

basically

a

chatbot

type

scenario

15:45

but

one

that

is

fully

integrated

into

AI

so

it

can

access

information

that

you

may

have

inside

of

Novel

crafter

already

15:51

and

this

is

a

feature

that's

only

available

in

The

Artisan

plan

or

above

so

that's

something

to

keep

in

mind

you

15:57

can

have

various

prompts

system

prompts

for

the

chat

tab

which

can

be

selected

16:03

here

and

I'll

go

more

into

depth

on

that

later

in

the

video

but

this

allows

you

to

create

let's

let's

just

go

with

a

16:09

general

purpose

one

for

demonstration

purposes

it

gives

you

a

number

of

different

models

that

you

can

use

Chat

16:15

including

GPT

40

gp4

turbo

we

have

Cloud

3

Cloud

3.5

Sonet

which

is

my

current

16:23

favorite

as

I'm

recording

this

and

so

you

can

select

which

model

it's

using

which

is

great

because

you

can

can

use

16:29

all

of

the

models

here

another

thing

you

can

do

down

here

is

give

it

context

so

what

this

means

is

sometimes

it's

useful

16:35

--- page 12 ---

to

give

it

an

idea

of

what

it

is

that

you're

talking

about

so

if

we

select

context

you

can

give

it

the

context

of

16:41

your

full

novel

outline

which

means

that

novel

outline

will

be

included

in

the

prompt

and

it

will

automatically

be

able

16:46

to

see

the

content

of

that

outline

so

you

can

ask

it

questions

about

the

outline

maybe

ask

for

ideas

on

what

16:52

should

go

where

Etc

that

can

all

be

done

here

you

can

even

give

it

the

full

novel

text

although

that's

the

sort

of

thing

I

16:59

would

only

do

with

some

of

the

larger

models

that

can

handle

large

amounts

of

data

like

that

and

it

will

be

a

costlier

17:06

thing

to

do

so

remember

what

I

said

about

how

I

rarely

go

more

than

about

$20

a

month

in

fact

it's

rarely

more

17:13

than

$10

a

month

that's

because

I'm

not

doing

this

very

often

sometimes

it's

useful

to

have

the

whole

novel

text

in

17:19

the

prompt

but

in

this

particular

case

you

could

only

use

it

with

Claude

models

or

the

GPD

40

models

or

some

of

the

17:26

Gemini

models

that

can

handle

such

large

amounts

of

text

and

like

I

said

that

would

cost

you

a

lot

more

additionally

17:32

if

you

pull

up

something

from

your

codex

it

will

all

be

showing

up

here

so

there's

lots

of

different

things

you

can

17:37

do

to

be

able

to

interact

with

information

that

you

have

stored

elsewhere

in

novel

crafter

you

can

seamlessly

interact

with

it

here

in

the

17:44

chat

I'll

give

you

some

examples

of

how

that

can

work

later

on

next

we

have

the

review

Tab

and

this

is

basically

just

a

Review

17:51

series

of

data

for

the

actual

novel

itself

now

because

we

have

no

actual

17:56

words

listed

here

you

won't

see

anything

but

but

this

will

give

you

basic

things

like

word

count

the

total

word

count

18:02

--- page 13 ---

character

distribution

by

scene

so

it's

able

to

look

and

see

how

involved

is

each

character

in

each

scenes

you

can

18:08

make

sure

there's

a

good

balance

there

you

can

look

at

a

heat

map

of

how

the

Codex

entries

are

appearing

in

each

of

18:14

the

scenes

and

I

understand

there's

more

work

being

done

on

the

review

tab

to

add

some

more

interesting

things

here

as

18:20

well

next

I

want

to

also

talk

about

prompt

so

if

you're

using

AI

inside

of

Novel

crafter

down

here

you'll

see

this

Prompts/Export

18:26

prompts

button

and

this

giv

you

a

list

of

all

of

the

different

prompts

any

of

the

prompts

that

you

see

that

say

system

18:32

here

are

the

system

prompts

that

are

baked

into

novel

crafter

by

themselves

and

these

cannot

be

modified

but

they

18:38

can

be

cloned

and

the

Clone

can

be

modified

from

there

is

what

you

can

see

I've

done

here

I

have

like

the

general

18:45

purpose

system

prompt

but

then

I

have

general

purpose

demonstration

general

purpose

non-fiction

general

purpose

super

uh

which

are

all

just

names

that

18:52

I've

put

to

them

so

you

can

take

any

of

these

prompts

and

modify

them

to

your

heart's

content

as

a

separate

prompt

you

18:58

can

also

take

any

of

these

prompts

and

create

your

own

prompts

for

use

inside

of

Novel

crafter

and

there

are

different

19:05

categories

of

prompts

here

these

for

instance

are

all

scene

beat

completions

which

means

that

when

you

have

written

a

19:12

scene

beat

and

you're

writing

that

scene

beat

out

with

AI

The

Prompt

that

you

use

to

do

that

can

vary

depending

on

which

19:18

of

these

prompts

that

you're

using

and

so

if

you

have

a

particular

way

that

you

like

it

to

write

out

the

scenes

you

can

19:24

do

that

right

here

Additionally

you

have

things

like

text

replacement

this

is

where

you

highlight

a

piece

of

text

and

--- page 14 ---

19:31

then

ask

the

AI

to

make

modifications

to

that

text

depending

on

what

your

prompt

is

and

we'll

see

some

good

examples

of

19:38

this

in

action

as

well

then

you

have

Workshop

chat

categories

of

prompts

here

these

are

the

ones

that

are

accessible

19:44

inside

of

the

chat

feature

up

here

and

these

are

different

ones

that

I've

created

there's

a

general

purpose

one

19:49

and

a

scene

Beats

from

summary

that

are

baked

into

novel

crafter

on

its

own

but

having

the

flexibility

to

create

my

own

19:56

prompts

here

is

very

important

I'll

show

you

a

very

simple

example

of

what

this

looks

like

so

for

instance

I

have

one

20:02

here

and

I've

made

sure

to

select

the

models

so

you

can

add

different

models

here

in

fact

I

am

probably

right

now

20:09

going

to

add

the

cloud

3

Sonet

Cloud

3.5

Sonet

here

as

being

another

model

and

20:16

I'm

actually

going

to

have

that

replace

GPT

3.5

which

I

was

using

here

so

you

can

select

any

model

here

you

can

select

20:23

several

if

you

want

to

have

a

choice

right

now

I'm

pretty

confident

that

3.5

son

it

will

be

able

to

do

what

I

want

it

20:29

to

do

with

this

prompt

so

I'm

just

going

to

leave

it

on

one

model

for

now

for

this

particular

prompt

and

I

come

over

20:34

here

to

instructions

and

I

have

the

system

message

and

then

the

user

input

20:40

so

it

says

whenever

you

are

given

text

rewrite

it

to

change

the

tense

to

past

tense

and

convert

instances

of

past

20:46

perfect

AKA

had

done

or

had

been

to

regular

past

tense

AKA

did

or

was

this

20:52

is

a

prompt

to

just

basically

change

things

from

present

tense

or

future

tense

or

whatever

the

tense

is

to

past

20:59

tense

and

then

it

says

text

to

rewrite

and

then

we

have

a

little

code

snippet

here

which

is

what

this

means

is

it's

21:05

bringing

in

the

text

that

I

have

highlighted

and

from

there

it

is

able

to

--- page 15 ---

21:10

bring

it

back

into

past

tense

so

to

briefly

show

this

in

action

we're

going

to

say

Mary

Has

a

Little

Lamb

she

is

21:20

very

happy

with

that

lamb

the

lamb

Loves

Mary

if

we

have

series

of

sentences

like

21:28

this

and

then

we

hit

that

prompt

which

is

available

and

all

of

these

are

those

21:33

same

prompts

that

we

were

just

looking

at

the

one

we're

looking

for

here

is

make

past

tense

all

I

have

to

do

is

21:39

Select

that

and

it

rewrites

it

it

says

Mary

had

a

little

lamb

she

was

very

happy

with

that

lamb

the

lamb

loved

Mary

21:45

so

it

is

automatically

done

what

I

asked

it

to

and

that's

an

example

of

a

very

simple

prompt

that

I've

created

here

in

21:52

novel

crafter

but

you

can

have

much

more

complicated

ones

the

system

prompts

are

usually

a

little

bit

more

complic

at

if

21:59

you

look

at

say

this

general

purpose

prompt

it

you

know

it

does

all

of

these

things

on

the

back

end

which

is

all

22:05

useful

but

at

the

same

time

you

know

you

might

be

a

little

overwhelmed

with

all

of

these

little

code

Snippets

and

that's

22:10

okay

because

we'll

go

more

in

depth

on

that

later

okay

last

but

not

least

in

the

overview

here

we're

going

to

talk

about

export

right

here

if

you

hit

22:18

export

it

gives

you

an

the

option

to

export

your

novel

in

a

variety

of

22:24

different

formats

so

you

can

select

which

scenes

you

want

to

export

and

which

ones

you

want

to

leave

leave

out

if

any

you

can

toggle

things

like

22:31

whether

you

want

to

export

the

summaries

of

the

scenes

as

well

or

just

the

pros

or

if

you

want

to

export

just

the

22:37

summaries

and

not

the

pros

if

you

want

to

include

things

like

the

ACT

titles

which

it

recommends

disabling

if

you're

22:43

uploading

this

document

to

atus

or

Vellum

for

formatting

for

example

as

well

as

including

scene

dividers

and

22:48

--- page 16 ---

scene

subtitles

and

all

of

that

that

can

all

be

toggled

here

and

from

there

you

just

export

it

and

it

creates

a

word

doc

22:54

or

a

markdown

MD

format

and

that's

basic

General

tour

of

Novel

crafter

so

the

23:00

next

thing

that

I

want

to

go

into

is

we're

going

to

go

more

in

depth

on

the

Codex

and

what

the

Codex

is

able

to

do

23:06

for

us

now

before

we

go

any

further

we

want

to

make

sure

that

we

have

ai

fully

integrated

into

novel

crafter

and

the

Part

2:

Codex/Setting

Up

the

AI

23:13

way

you

do

this

is

to

go

down

here

to

settings

and

then

make

sure

that

your

AI

credentials

are

listed

here

now

there

23:19

are

a

couple

of

places

where

you

can

get

AI

credentials

but

the

two

most

important

ones

are

going

to

be

open

Ai

23:26

and

open

router

open

AI

will

bring

in

all

of

the

different

open

AI

models

including

GPD

3.5

gbd4

and

GPD

40

23:34

additionally

if

you

have

created

any

fine-tune

models

with

open

AI

those

are

23:40

going

to

be

available

inside

novel

crafter

here

and

that's

why

it's

really

important

to

make

sure

you

connect

your

open

AI

key

and

to

get

an

open

AI

key

23:47

you're

going

to

want

to

create

an

account

with

open

ai's

platform

not

with

chat

BT

but

with

the

URL

is

platform.

23:56

open.com

you

want

to

come

to

here

here

platform.

open.com

playground

and

you'll

24:02

be

greeted

with

basically

this

is

the

API

interface

where

you

can

chat

with

24:07

the

AI

much

as

you

would

in

chat

GPT

but

with

a

little

bit

more

control

and

then

here

on

the

left

hand

side

you

want

to

24:14

go

down

here

to

where

it

says

API

keys

and

then

you'll

want

to

select

a

create

a

new

API

key

when

you

do

that

you'll

be

24:22

get

a

chance

to

name

it

you'll

assign

it

to

whatever

projects

you

just

keep

it

at

default

projects

permissions

at

all

and

24:30

--- page 17 ---

then

create

secret

key

then

you'll

be

greeted

with

a

rather

long

number

right

here

which

you

can

then

copy

copy

the

24:36

key

and

then

all

you

have

to

do

is

go

into

novel

crafter

select

new

and

that

will

connect

novel

crafter

to

your

open

24:44

AI

API

keep

in

mind

that

if

you

are

generating

words

through

the

API

you

are

going

to

be

charged

for

those

words

it's

24:50

not

a

whole

lot

especially

if

you're

using

some

of

the

models

like

GPT

40

but

in

order

to

see

how

much

you

are

using

24:58

this

particular

API

you

can

come

here

to

usage

and

look

here

under

cost

and

see

25:03

exactly

how

much

you

have

been

doing

as

you

can

see

I

have

not

been

using

it

much

I

have

a

bill

of

23

cents

over

the

25:09

last

month

now

that's

more

of

a

case

of

me

just

not

using

open

AI

models

very

much

I

prefer

to

use

other

models

so

if

25:16

you

want

to

use

other

models

the

best

way

to

do

that

is

to

go

to

a

site

called

open

router.

and

the

process

of

hooking

25:24

open

router

to

novel

crafter

is

actually

a

little

bit

simpler

than

doing

your

your

open

AI

API

all

you

have

to

do

is

25:30

make

sure

you

create

an

account

here

and

make

sure

you

are

logged

in

to

your

open

router

account

and

then

come

here

to

25:38

novel

crafter

once

again

hit

new

and

then

come

here

to

where

it

says

25:45

open

router

and

hit

connect

and

it

should

be

able

to

just

automatically

connect

you

to

your

open

router

account

25:50

open

router

has

access

to

pretty

much

all

of

the

different

models

out

there

including

the

ones

from

anthropic

25:55

including

some

open

source

model

mod

like

llama

3

and

some

others

that

allow

you

to

do

not

safe

for

work

content

and

26:02

stuff

like

that

so

if

you

want

access

to

all

of

those

models

this

is

the

place

to

go

go

to

open

router

create

an

account

26:08

--- page 18 ---

and

then

hook

it

up

once

you're

in

your

open

router

account

just

like

you

can

in

your

open

AI

API

you

can

look

at

the

26:16

activity

that

you've

been

doing

and

as

you

can

see

I've

been

using

this

one

a

little

bit

more

heavily

I

uh

you

know

26:23

just

today

I

have

several

chats

and

each

chat

c

cost

a

few

cents

each

and

that

26:30

was

kind

of

an

expensive

aggressive

chat

that

I

was

experimenting

with

and

so

for

26:35

that

reason

this

is

kind

of

pricier

you

know

getting

up

to

seven

sets

per

chat

that's

because

I

was

testing

things

out

26:40

that's

not

necessarily

what

you're

going

to

be

dealing

with

every

time

and

that's

using

mistal

large

which

is

one

of

the

26:46

larger

models

out

there

although

it

is

one

that

allows

you

to

do

more

not

safer

26:51

work

things

and

stuff

like

that

additionally

I've

been

using

a

lot

of

clae

3.5

Sonet

as

you

can

see

here

and

26:56

this

is

much

cheaper

as

you

can

see

this

one

chat

cost

me

less

than

a

cent

almost

27:02

about

27%

of

one

cent

for

the

one

chat

so

it's

a

lot

cheaper

than

what

I

was

27:07

experimenting

with

with

Mr

Large

uh

which

is

one

of

the

reasons

why

I

really

like

3.5

Sonet

because

it

is

much

more

27:14

affordable

you're

not

going

to

be

using

up

your

tokens

very

quickly

with

3.5

Sonet

if

you

are

worried

about

cost

27:21

about

using

too

much

money

with

the

AI

you

can

come

here

to

credits

and

you

can

top

this

off

with

27:28

however

much

you

want

so

if

you

only

want

say

$5

you

can

put

$5

here

and

once

27:34

you

use

up

those

words

it

will

not

let

you

generate

more

words

and

so

you

can

27:39

be

rest

assured

that

it

won't

spend

more

than

$5

accidentally

so

you

can

basically

just

put

$5

on

there

and

see

27:46

how

long

it

lasts

you

I

think

you'll

be

surprised

how

long

$5

can

go

especially

if

you're

using

cheaper

models

like

27:51

--- page 19 ---

Claude

3.5

Sonic

now

there

are

other

options

in

novel

crafter

if

you

want

to

27:56

add

other

accounts

to

this

so

you

could

add

LM

Studio

which

is

a

way

of

using

28:02

models

off

of

your

own

machine

and

including

it

into

novel

crafter

so

you

could

literally

be

running

the

models

28:08

just

from

your

own

computer

and

using

them

inside

of

Novel

crafter

which

is

useful

the

same

goes

for

this

one

AMA

28:15

another

local

runner

for

your

large

language

models

and

then

you

you

can

also

connect

a

mill

account

if

you

have

28:20

a

mill

account

and

there

a

bunch

of

others

but

really

the

two

that

I

go

for

the

most

are

open

router

because

you

can

28:26

access

pretty

much

everything

in

there

as

well

as

open

AI

particularly

if

you

have

fine-tune

models

I

recommend

28:33

connecting

your

open

AI

account

other

than

those

too

you

can

go

down

the

list

and

add

these

if

you

want

otherwise

it's

28:39

it's

up

to

you

once

that's

done

your

novel

crafter

account

will

be

connected

to

Ai

and

you

can

pull

in

AI

at

any

28:46

point

where

AI

is

used

so

here

in

the

writing

section

for

example

you

can

use

it

in

the

chat

here

you

can

use

it

if

28:53

you

have

the

Artisan

plan

that's

basically

how

this

works

all

right

so

I've

actually

pulled

in

one

of

my

28:58

current

projects

that

I'm

working

on

this

is

a

book

called

The

Fall

of

the

fairy

it's

book

five

in

a

series

that

I've

already

written

the

first

four

29:04

books

for

but

I'm

using

Ai

and

some

other

tools

at

my

disposal

to

write

this

29:10

and

to

help

me

finish

up

this

series

there's

going

to

be

six

in

total

but

I'm

pulling

this

in

so

you

can

see

what

some

29:15

of

these

things

look

like

some

of

these

features

look

like

when

they

are

in

full

use

so

the

first

thing

I

want

to

take

a

29:21

look

at

is

the

Codex

so

the

Codex

as

you

can

see

is

accessible

here

as

we

already

--- page 20 ---

Tour

of

Codex

Entry

29:26

went

over

and

I've

already

got

a

few

codex

entries

here

but

not

very

many

29:31

okay

uh

you

can

really

go

to

town

with

the

number

of

codex

entries

that

you

include

here

and

the

way

to

start

a

new

29:38

codex

entry

is

to

go

here

to

New

entry

and

then

select

whatever

it

is

that

you're

looking

to

do

this

can

be

a

29:44

character

a

location

an

object

a

lore

subplot

other

you

can

even

have

Global

29:49

entries

so

this

will

be

entries

the

AI

is

going

to

be

able

to

look

at

it

pretty

much

every

time

it's

used

so

if

you

have

29:55

things

that

you

want

the

AI

to

understand

every

time

time

it's

being

used

this

is

a

good

way

to

do

that

same

30:01

goes

for

style

guide

and

story

genre

if

you

want

to

just

establish

those

and

make

sure

the

AI

understands

what

style

30:06

you

want

to

write

in

what

genre

you're

writing

in

basically

all

the

time

you

can

put

that

information

here

the

one

30:12

you'll

probably

be

using

the

most

here

is

characters

so

let's

go

ahead

and

look

at

that

if

you're

unfamiliar

with

this

whole

setup

this

may

be

a

little

30:18

overwhelming

for

you

so

I'll

go

ahead

and

break

this

down

there's

really

only

a

few

things

that

you

need

to

know

so

30:24

I'm

going

to

create

a

character

here

called

Gyan

uh

he's

a

character

in

this

story

so

next

we

want

to

establish

what

30:30

the

tags

or

labels

are

if

there

are

any

you

might

not

need

to

add

anything

here

but

we

could

add

something

like

say

Side

30:38

characters

um

as

a

category

for

this

character

and

that

way

we

could

put

30:44

other

characters

inside

the

same

category

and

so

forth

so

I'm

going

to

add

that

then

we're

going

to

add

aliases

30:49

and

nicknames

the

aliases

and

nicknames

is

basically

if

this

character

Goes

By

Any

Other

Name

in

this

series

we

want

to

--- page 21 ---

30:56

make

sure

the

AI

is

able

to

pick

up

on

that

so

we

want

him

establish

what

are

the

other

names

that

he

might

be

using

31:01

so

in

this

case

I

might

say

something

like

KN

of

temperance

because

that's

sort

of

a

title

that

he

has

other

than

31:08

that

that

Gyan

really

is

the

name

that

he

uses

so

that's

all

I'm

going

to

put

there

and

then

we

want

to

establish

more

31:15

information

about

his

character

keep

in

mind

this

information

here

that

goes

in

this

description

is

what

the

AI

is

going

31:21

to

see

when

we

are

writing

with

this

character

so

if

I'm

writing

a

scene

and

31:26

Guion

is

in

the

scene

we

want

to

make

sure

the

AI

has

information

about

that

character

so

it

can

write

their

voice

a

31:32

little

bit

differently

than

any

of

the

other

characters

so

some

of

the

things

to

keep

in

mind

in

this

particular

31:38

description

box

are

things

like

physical

appearance

communication

style

SL

31:45

dialogue

style

personality

we

can

even

say

personality

type

motivations

and

you

31:53

could

go

down

this

line

a

little

bit

more

and

really

flesh

this

out

depending

on

how

detailed

you

want

this

character

31:58

to

be

I

usually

find

that

the

results

I

get

out

of

the

AI

are

better

when

I

keep

this

a

little

bit

more

simple

so

you

32:04

could

just

say

things

like

medium

height

brown

hair

cut

short

a

wellt

32:13

trimmed

dark

beard

usually

wearing

plate

armor

but

32:20

sometimes

seen

more

casually

and

then

you

can

add

things

to

the

communication

32:26

style

and

the

dialogue

Style

this

is

important

because

when

the

AI

is

writing

their

voice

we

want

to

make

sure

that

32:32

voice

sounds

distinct

and

so

this

was

one

of

the

most

important

sections

of

this

description

uh

so

you

might

say

32:37

something

like

he

speaks

in

short

Punchy

sentences

always

to

the

point

and

if

you

--- page 22 ---

32:45

want

you

could

expand

this

a

lot

more

for

sake

of

time

we're

going

to

leave

it

at

that

personality

type

you

can

give

32:50

information

about

how

he

thinks

how

he

feels

but

you

could

also

put

actual

like

Myers

Briggs

or

anagram

information

in

32:57

there

to

sort

of

convey

a

lot

of

information

to

the

AI

without

saying

it

in

a

ton

of

words

so

you

could

say

and

I

33:03

don't

actually

know

what

his

type

would

be

so

I'm

just

going

to

say

INF

FP

on

33:08

the

Meyers

Briggs

personality

test

uh

we

33:14

could

put

more

things

here

but

I

could

say

he's

he

values

33:20

self-control

and

self-mastery

above

all

33:25

else

to

the

point

that

it

often

annoys

others

how

uh

who

perceive

him

as

33:37

self-righteous

but

recently

he

has

gotten

33:43

better

at

allowing

others

to

just

be

33:48

themselves

while

he

works

on

his

own

self-mastery

uh

so

that's

something

that

33:55

I

might

put

under

a

personality

type

we'll

just

leave

it

there

for

now

you

get

the

idea

the

other

thing

to

note

here

is

progressions

and

additions

so

34:02

this

is

something

where

let's

say

something

changes

about

Guan

halfway

through

the

story

I

might

at

that

point

34:07

say

okay

this

is

something

different

more

information

about

that

character

34:14

and

I

don't

want

the

AI

to

see

it

until

we

get

to

a

certain

chapter

so

let's

just

go

to

the

right

section

here

let's

34:21

just

say

here

at

the

start

of

chapter

6

we're

going

to

add

a

codex

Edition

here

34:26

and

we

want

to

select

the

right

character

so

we

could

select

Gan

and

say

Gan

has

I

don't

know

broken

his

leg

at

34:35

this

point

he

is

unable

to

walk

normally

but

has

34:42

--- page 23 ---

makeshift

crutches

that

were

found

in

the

castle

vaults

that

allow

him

to

get

34:51

around

when

we

put

something

like

this

that

means

that

when

the

AI

is

writing

guan's

character

in

this

scene

it's

34:58

going

to

be

showing

him

with

crutches

basically

it's

going

to

add

that

addition

to

this

point

from

here

on

out

35:05

but

if

we

were

to

write

his

character

in

chapters

five

or

above

it

wouldn't

have

that

because

the

AI

wouldn't

be

seeing

35:11

that

he

had

broken

his

leg

at

this

point

and

so

this

is

a

really

powerful

tool

to

be

able

to

show

progression

for

a

35:17

character

over

time

so

let's

go

back

into

the

Codex

note

all

of

everything

we

just

covered

is

here

in

the

details

35:24

phase

and

you

can

see

that

the

progress

addictions

has

added

things

about

his

broken

leg

here

so

you'll

see

all

of

35:30

those

progression

additions

here

but

let's

go

to

the

next

tab

over

which

is

notes

and

we'll

say

these

notes

are

only

35:36

visible

to

you

and

not

used

in

the

generation

of

new

Pros

so

basically

these

are

notes

just

for

you

if

you

have

35:42

more

information

about

this

character

maybe

their

backstory

that

you

don't

necessarily

need

the

AI

to

know

or

maybe

you

have

something

that's

more

fleshed

35:48

out

or

just

a

note

to

yourself

this

is

the

place

to

put

that

so

that's

simple

enough

next

we

want

to

look

at

35:54

references

so

there

are

a

couple

of

boxes

to

check

here

if

you

want

you

can

say

always

include

this

entry

in

the

AI

36:00

context

so

by

default

novel

crafter

only

accesses

the

character's

information

if

36:07

that

character

is

in

the

scene

I'll

show

you

what

this

looks

like

so

you

know

how

it

happens

so

if

I

were

to

start

a

scene

36:13

beat

and

say

Sir

Gan

you'll

immediately

notice

that

this

36:19

name

is

highlighted

and

that's

an

indicator

to

the

AI

that

this

character

is

in

the

scene

so

it

will

pull

in

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36:24

guan's

information

for

this

particular

scene

but

if

for

whatever

reason

you

wanted

the

AI

to

always

pull

in

guan's

36:32

information

then

what

you

would

do

here

is

go

to

guan's

uh

references

here

and

say

always

include

this

entry

in

the

AI

36:38

context

that

way

it

will

always

be

showing

up

and

we'll

go

ahead

and

uncheck

that

for

now

you

can

also

do

the

36:44

opposite

you

can

say