WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.670 --> 00:00:20.979 Tom Wilde: Okay. Welcome, everybody. Great to have you with us on this well, in the in in the Uk. It's a wet Wednesday evening. 2 00:00:21.050 --> 00:00:26.779 Tom Wilde: It's gonna take a few minutes for people to join everyone to come along so 3 00:00:26.880 --> 00:00:31.269 Tom Wilde: will just wait while they do. But in the meantime. 4 00:00:31.480 --> 00:00:45.189 Tom Wilde: if you'd like to add your well, if you'd like to tell us where you're joining from in chat, that would be great. It's always interesting, fascinating, in fact, to see where everybody is joining from 5 00:00:45.420 --> 00:00:47.180 Tom Wilde: around the world. 6 00:00:47.540 --> 00:00:55.240 Tom Wilde: And there we go. Got people. Okay, Barbara. You were first from Victoria, British Columbia, a a city I know and love 7 00:00:55.450 --> 00:00:59.099 Tom Wilde: California. Shannon from Vancouver as well. 8 00:00:59.420 --> 00:01:03.800 Tom Wilde: More people from California, cozy from Texas, all from New Hampshire. 9 00:01:04.530 --> 00:01:19.699 Tom Wilde: Okay? Oh, Barba, Claudia, you're in Barbados fantastic. but it's I'll be there right now. Becky, from New Zealand. Wow! Just sort of work out what time it is in New Zealand. Beckies probably must be around about 10 in the morning. I think. 10 00:01:20.250 --> 00:01:21.980 Tom Wilde: Elena, from Michigan. 11 00:01:22.350 --> 00:01:34.809 Tom Wilde: We've got Laura from Oregon. I'm not seeing anyone from many people from the from the Uk or Europe. I'm assuming that's because of the time. Differences 11 pm. Over here. But we've got yellow med from Puerto Rico. 12 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:41.940 Tom Wilde: Welcome? There we go, Majvin, from London. Welcome along just up the road for me. I'm in Brighton. 13 00:01:42.320 --> 00:01:49.700 Tom Wilde: Yeah, welcome, everybody. We have got such a great session for you today. I'm really excited 14 00:01:49.800 --> 00:01:53.209 Tom Wilde: to get started, which we will do in a couple of minutes. 15 00:01:53.420 --> 00:02:06.969 Tom Wilde: Before we do that we'll go through a few housekeeping items I'll run through a few slides. You should see the slide on screen in front of you welcoming you so we'll go through a few housekeeping items 16 00:02:07.030 --> 00:02:10.609 Tom Wilde: that I'm going to introduce you to Mal, who you can see on the screen already. 17 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:24.809 Tom Wilde: and we'll get going. But I can still see people coming in. So yeah, while they do that, I'm just gonna go back to looking more people from Vancouver Island and Susan from London as well, fantastic. 18 00:02:24.850 --> 00:02:28.010 Tom Wilde: And hopefully, you've all been tuning in for 19 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:54.490 Tom Wilde: other talks. And during romance writers week we've had a fantastic reaction. We've had a great engagement from really big audiences, lots of great discussions going on. If this is your first welcome along, if it's your third or fourth or fifth welcome to. Hopefully, you maybe even been trying out some of the networking sessions we've been running. Thank you. G, so it's been fantastic good to hear. 20 00:02:54.490 --> 00:03:02.370 Tom Wilde: Oh, we've got some people already talk about what romance. So writing a romance for a couple in lay under Gre and Gravesend. Fantastic. 21 00:03:02.530 --> 00:03:09.350 Tom Wilde: Okay? So yeah, hopefully. You've been in think part and enjoying it already. We've got so much to offer you this evening. 22 00:03:09.450 --> 00:03:22.779 Tom Wilde: So let's get started right. So first things to talk about are. And I'm gonna have. I'm gonna be reading off a little bit of a screen here, just so I don't forget all the things I need to tell you. Let's have a look. 23 00:03:23.220 --> 00:03:26.630 Tom Wilde: Replays. Let's have a look at replays. So 24 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:33.850 Tom Wilde: we're adding replays to the Hub page. I'll put a link to the Hub page in the chat. Once we get started. 25 00:03:33.950 --> 00:03:50.879 Tom Wilde: They take a while to process with zoom. Don't worry. They will be there. You may not see them there immediately after the talk. It may be in 24 h time or so, but you will find the replays there. They're available for a week until the first of March, a little actually more than a week. 26 00:03:51.000 --> 00:04:08.149 Tom Wilde: After this state, they're available only for premium and premium pro members. So if you're a free user, pro-writing aid and you want to have permanent access to the replays just upgrade. And it's really easy to do. We'll be giving you an offer to do that. 27 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:10.049 Tom Wilde: On that subject. 28 00:04:10.170 --> 00:04:23.850 Tom Wilde: Friday, as you may know, is is a premium day. So we're offering bonus sessions, for again for premium and premium pro subscribers. Monday to Thursday is free for everybody to attend. 29 00:04:23.860 --> 00:04:43.379 Tom Wilde: You can upgrade your accounts by Friday morning and gain access if you like to. And, as I said, we'll be presenting a little offer to you in a second, and you will receive an email on Friday morning with instructions for attending any live sessions you want. But obviously, we're only on Wednesday. So we've got plenty of free sessions to get through before then. 30 00:04:43.730 --> 00:04:53.849 Tom Wilde: Okay, so here's your offer. 25% off yearly premium or premium pro pro writing aid. That means you get full access. 31 00:04:54.010 --> 00:05:01.080 Tom Wilde: So the full suite of tools and reports in pro-writing out. That means advanced suggestions, author comparisons. 32 00:05:01.270 --> 00:05:20.020 Tom Wilde: full integrations for scrivener word and hundreds of. And on that point we've just released updated versions of pro writing A everywhere for windows, and Mac, which now allow for integration within scrivener. You don't even need to leave Scrivener to come into our desktop app. You can access everything in pro writing it in scrivener. 33 00:05:20.320 --> 00:05:28.960 Tom Wilde: You can review entire chapters. So with our critique report, you can access us. But AI sparks and rephrase tools. 34 00:05:29.310 --> 00:05:43.890 Tom Wilde: and you can curate your editing experience with snippets and custom dictionaries, and so on. So if you do want to upgrade, we will be putting a link, and there'll be details on the links. I'll put in chat that you can use to do that 35 00:05:44.610 --> 00:05:53.339 Tom Wilde: and if you want to keep talking romance writing, and we hope you do then just join the community, being part of the community is entirely free. 36 00:05:53.390 --> 00:06:04.909 Tom Wilde: Just sign up. Introduce yourself. There's loads of discussions going on there. You can see the link on the screen. But again I will post that in chat. Once we get started. And again towards 37 00:06:05.200 --> 00:06:08.660 Tom Wilde: the end. okay, and I think 38 00:06:08.890 --> 00:06:13.329 Tom Wilde: that's just about it. We're just going to do a quick bit of housekeeping. So 39 00:06:13.970 --> 00:06:20.510 Tom Wilde: for this session, we've got a lot of people on the call that's fantastic. If you've got a question to ask 40 00:06:20.650 --> 00:06:31.949 Tom Wilde: to ask of Mel, please put it in the Q. And a box. If we. If you put it in chat, there's a chance we won't see it. Okay, so please use Q. And A for questions 41 00:06:32.170 --> 00:06:49.320 Tom Wilde: and use chat for chat. We love having all the back channel conversations going on during these talks. Use your rich source of kind of support and and conversations around the topic. So please do use that. But yeah. Q. And a for questions, please. 42 00:06:49.440 --> 00:07:01.650 Tom Wilde: and in terms of links to offers and speakers, they'll be all be available in the romance writers. Hub. So let me just put those in chat for you all. Now 43 00:07:01.740 --> 00:07:05.219 Tom Wilde: then, I'm going to introduce Mel, and we are going to get started. 44 00:07:05.410 --> 00:07:22.119 Tom Wilde: So you should see a couple of links there. Grab them from chat. You can navigate to the the hub and the community from the website really easily as well. And if you've got any questions after this session at all for me, for Mel, for the team 45 00:07:22.440 --> 00:07:35.429 Tom Wilde: contact our support team. hello@prowritingaid.com. If they're familiar we can pass them on. If they're for us! We'll be able to help you directly. So that's hello@prowritingaid.com. All right. 46 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:40.470 Tom Wilde: let's get on with the main event. So I'm just going to 47 00:07:40.860 --> 00:07:43.579 stop my screen share so that 48 00:07:43.980 --> 00:07:49.179 Tom Wilde: now can share hers in a second. But before we do that 49 00:07:49.220 --> 00:07:54.500 Tom Wilde: know, it's going to be an interesting one, because it's on AI, and everybody's interested in this subject. 50 00:07:54.610 --> 00:08:14.839 Tom Wilde: And joining us today is Mel Amade. Who's going to tell us all about using generative AI to enhance your romance writing. So Mel is a U.S.A. Today, bestselling paranormal fantasy, romance, author, and an authority in integrating artificial intelligence into the creative process. 51 00:08:14.900 --> 00:08:30.479 Tom Wilde: She's an output of over 40 romance novels. And she's also co-authored. 17 nonfiction books. How she has the time I've got no idea, and those nonfiction books are on harnessing AI to enhance writing business and your personal life. 52 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:47.640 Tom Wilde: Mel's keen interest in AI led her to co-launch AI for authors. In March 2022, the first course of its kind aimed at teaching authors how to effectively use AI in their publishing business. This was quickly followed by the course, the 5 Day Author. 53 00:08:47.650 --> 00:08:53.460 Tom Wilde: where Mel took her regular practice of writing a book in 5 days and applied AI to it 54 00:08:53.670 --> 00:09:08.980 Tom Wilde: in addition to her literary accomplish accomplishments. Mel has a rich background in translating complex technology for general audiences, collaborating, collaborating with organisations like NASA Northrop, Brumen and Hewlett Packard. 55 00:09:09.060 --> 00:09:12.549 Tom Wilde: Mal's approach to AI is practical and grounded 56 00:09:12.570 --> 00:09:27.210 Tom Wilde: focusing on how this technology can be a creative partner to authors, enhancing their storytelling while keeping their unique voice and style at the forefront, and having seen Mel talk on this subject in Las Vegas at 20 books last November. 57 00:09:27.530 --> 00:09:38.840 Tom Wilde: I can assure you it's worth listening to every word she's got to tell you, Mel. Welcome along this evening. Great to have you with us. I'm going to hand straight over to you, and I'm going to be in the background, just supporting you the whole way. 58 00:09:39.560 --> 00:09:56.720 Melle Amade: Tom. Hi! Thank you so much for inviting me to speak at the to the pro writing date. Audience. Hello, everybody! As you know by now. My name is Mel. I'd like to wish everybody a happy Valentine's Day. I can't imagine a better day to have a romance writer's talk. 59 00:09:56.760 --> 00:10:04.300 Melle Amade: I'm gonna share my screen right now. and we'll do so. Just do the whole thing. 60 00:10:04.990 --> 00:10:14.999 Melle Amade: And I saw that where everybody is from you're awesome. I have lived in London. Let's see, I'm trying to do a slideshow. Let's see if that'll work. 61 00:10:16.210 --> 00:10:44.289 Melle Amade: There we go and get rid of my face, so I don't have to see me. So, Tom, if you want my attention while I'm doing this, you're gonna need to speak out to me. You guys, I want to kind of get a gauge on the audience a little bit before we start. We're going to be talking about what we call narrative heartbeats, which is, how do you use AI to find the spine of your romance story. But before that we want to talk a little bit about AI in general. 62 00:10:44.490 --> 00:10:48.649 Melle Amade: So as we as I start? Can. 63 00:10:49.420 --> 00:11:08.369 Melle Amade: Can you guys tell me, are you here because you want to use AI to write your stories? You want to use AI to help you plot some of your stories? Or perhaps you want to use it for marketing. So just in a couple of you know, is it marketing? Is it plotting? Is it support? 64 00:11:08.800 --> 00:11:11.449 Melle Amade: I'd love to kind of get a gauge on that. 65 00:11:11.770 --> 00:11:13.169 Melle Amade: And while we do that. 66 00:11:13.380 --> 00:11:25.530 Tom Wilde: I was gonna say, we've got a whole mix of whole mix of responses here, plotting all 3. Marketing AI for research, curiosity, editing assistance. Description. 67 00:11:26.070 --> 00:11:32.490 Melle Amade: Yeah, it's it's all 3. It's a really rich, mix, broad mix, right? So that's good. So I'm gonna cover 68 00:11:32.490 --> 00:11:57.379 somewhat of those 3 areas. We don't actually do marketing so much in this talk. But I've worked as a marketing director for about 20 years. So marketing is a core part of my book, selling strategy. I believe that books are and and don't don't hate me on this, but books are a product, and we run businesses, and our businesses are to put the best quality product on the market, and the best way to do that is to know who you 69 00:11:57.380 --> 00:12:08.199 audience is and what need you're fulfilling, so that by fulfilling the need you get a lot of avid fans. So it's not just about I'm going to write a book about 70 00:12:08.230 --> 00:12:24.040 Melle Amade: something I had to dream about last night. Now it does work for some, but some people. Twilight's a exception on that. But most of us really need to do some level of market research. So I dig deep on that in some of our courses. 71 00:12:24.180 --> 00:12:39.420 Melle Amade: However, today I really want to talk about AI, how you would develop your story with AI, and then we're going to do a demo on the Romance Story Development. You got a long list of about me already, so we'll skip past this. 72 00:12:40.070 --> 00:12:42.560 Melle Amade: So for those of you who aren't 73 00:12:42.690 --> 00:12:53.700 Melle Amade: clear on some things of AI. I'm gonna skip over these things a little bit. But I wanted to really touch on. You know, people say, AI shouldn't be used for creative. 74 00:12:53.860 --> 00:13:18.850 Melle Amade: When we talk about artificial intelligence, there's a huge amount of artificial intelligence. For example, machine learning is something that organizations are using to do missile defense and you know, aircra, autopilot aircraft and cars. So the the capabilities of AI is not limited to what we are doing in a tool. 75 00:13:18.850 --> 00:13:33.060 Just chat Gpt, which is the one I'm going to use today to show you how it's made my delivery of marketable stories so much faster, and in many ways believe it or not, so much more interesting. 76 00:13:33.420 --> 00:13:54.130 Melle Amade: But we are talking. Where's my cursor? We're talking about this little area here. This is generative AI and large language models, and these kind of dropped on the scene in 2022 of November, when Chat Gpt launched its first public tool that just give me a yes or no. If you've played with chat, gpt a little bit. 77 00:13:58.760 --> 00:13:59.910 Melle Amade: What are we seeing? 78 00:13:59.920 --> 00:14:07.729 Tom Wilde: Yeah, Mel. It's it's it's pretty. There's a lot of yeses, a lot of yeses. And some days, let's say, probably 60, 40, 79 00:14:07.950 --> 00:14:14.040 Tom Wilde: 60%, yes, 40%, no. And a lot of people saying, I want to try. But yeah. 80 00:14:14.380 --> 00:14:45.330 Melle Amade: well, I'm going to show you chat, Gpt today. If you have not used Chat Gpt, I really encourage you to go to Openai Com and create an account. You could do the free one, if you, you know, aren't sure what you want to use it for, and just ask it a question. And one of the really simple questions that I encourage audiences to do just to get the conversation started is, tell it what you have in your fridge, and ask it to tell you what to make for dinner, and it will give you a complete recipe. 81 00:14:45.570 --> 00:15:09.279 Melle Amade: So this gives you an idea. The large language models that sit behind the generative. AI chat bot. They have a huge amount of data in them, and they're constantly looking at that to provide you the next predictive word in the sentence. So if I say, give me a recipe with cheese tomatoes, you know 82 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:32.870 Melle Amade: milk, whatever it's gonna go through. It's gonna analyze things, and it's probably gonna pop me out a recipe for pasta or something of the like, and it will use all of the content that it has behind it to do that. Now, how does this service as creative artists? Well, we get to reach in, not to other people's stories. But you can say 83 00:15:32.870 --> 00:15:57.840 Melle Amade: I have a character with the personality disorder of X, who runs into a character with a you know, personality, disorder of Y, what happens next? And because the large language model has been trained on information for psychology, it will actually take that and give you a couple of different options, and probably 20 different options. 84 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:11.119 or 100 as many as you ask for. Of what could possibly happen when you put those 2 people in a room together. So as romance authors, it creates this wonderful environment where we can do research 85 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:27.500 Melle Amade: for things that we don't know. Now, in my case, my husband's a psychologist, so I can also ask him. But getting him started on psychology is not something I want to do. I want to get in. I wanna get some ideas, get some information and then get out and continue creating my story. 86 00:16:28.340 --> 00:16:41.479 Melle Amade: So in that example, what you find here is in this bottom section. The personalized experiences of generative AI. You know, we're gonna see education where they can drive. 87 00:16:41.860 --> 00:17:06.710 Melle Amade: you know, if you're if the child has a different learning ability. They can drive a a learning pathway that's much simpler where the test is different or the homework assignment is different from marketing. You're gonna see a lot more in the coming years of marketing chat bots and things that are tailored directly for you and in creative. What this really means is that 88 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:26.049 Melle Amade: it's not gonna be the same thing for everybody. You could go onto the machine and say, you know, you're you're gonna put in your own characters, defects not yours personally, but your characters, defects. And you're gonna put in there. In romance. Of course we have 2 lead characters, the 89 00:17:26.369 --> 00:17:50.659 Melle Amade: I can't even say man and woman, but the 2 characters that are gonna fall in love, and you can write their character defects, and then you can put them together. You are not gonna write the same character defects that I'm going to create for my characters. So because we each put in our own individualized information to the machine and our own musings, as it were, for the characters. 90 00:17:50.660 --> 00:17:56.399 We're each gonna come out with our own story lines and our own character development. 91 00:17:57.420 --> 00:18:00.549 So how many of you are worried about AI and copyright? 92 00:18:01.070 --> 00:18:28.280 Melle Amade: I'm not even gonna ask that question. I know many people are II was just listening to a talk in. I'm in Los Angeles, by the way, for all my fellows. But I was listening to a talk called the Hollywood Town Hall last night, and they were discussing how AI can make a critical impact on creativity if the studio heads get a hold of it and start creating AI generated content. Well, the you know the 93 00:18:28.660 --> 00:18:39.759 Melle Amade: the studios aren't doing that right now, because there's not a great deal of copyright protection at the moment for everything that's being done in AI. 94 00:18:39.920 --> 00:19:10.480 Melle Amade: However. it is the Wild West, and you know this slide talks about, you know, and I don't wanna read every bullet point. But they talk about different licensing models. They're looking at the economic impact. So one of the examples under economic impact was that Grimes created a tool that is capable of her fans can take her story pieces and or her song pieces, and they can create their own AI music based on her 95 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:14.219 Melle Amade: her music. So 96 00:19:14.330 --> 00:19:33.879 Melle Amade: the question that they or they what they were looking for is is that negatively impacting the artists actual sales, and so far they can't actually draw a connection between. You know, the Fans were just having fun with it, and the artist wasn't damaged in any way. 97 00:19:34.150 --> 00:19:47.599 Melle Amade: There are international implications. So while they're trying to create goals for international treaties, every country has their own laws. So, for example, Japan has said, Use whatever AI you want. 98 00:19:47.610 --> 00:19:49.819 Melle Amade: We're not going to worry about the copyright 99 00:19:50.310 --> 00:20:01.829 Melle Amade: in America. It's very murky. The you, the I should say the it's the European Union is creating more regulated AI use. 100 00:20:01.850 --> 00:20:13.959 But I don't think our biggest concerns for AI are in the creative sphere, because every author who is working with AI and I say, working, not writing, but working with AI really 101 00:20:14.010 --> 00:20:30.550 Melle Amade: is using it as a tool to enhance their creative vision. And where I'm more concerned about AI is, you know, big business. The military things like that. I think it could have interesting ramifications. 102 00:20:30.730 --> 00:20:42.660 Melle Amade: So I want to keep moving here. If you guys have copyright questions. You can go ahead and ask them. I'm very happy to try and answer as best I can. 103 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:55.929 Melle Amade: but I want to talk a little bit about the evolution of story writing. So I'm an oral storyteller. What does that mean? I often write my outlines by hand, or this was me, you know. 104 00:20:56.140 --> 00:21:19.270 Melle Amade: Up until last year I would write my outline by hand. I would then take that outline, and I would grab my phone and I would talk into my phone on a little app. It's not a very exciting app. But I would dictate my stories into my phone chapter by chapter, and what that gave me was a really rough copy of the story that I wanted to tell. 105 00:21:19.270 --> 00:21:33.900 Melle Amade: and I would take that story, and then I would send it to a dictation editor who would edit it so that it made sense in in terms of you know it would if I said rain and I meant REIG n. The 106 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:43.619 Melle Amade: tool would sometimes spell RAIN so my dictation editor would take that fix it up for me. I'd get it back, and the process is important. I would 107 00:21:43.800 --> 00:21:55.750 Melle Amade: edit it once through, send it to another editor, get it back, then I'd send it. Take it through a tool like pro writing aid which I love. I'm a big fan, and I would 108 00:21:55.910 --> 00:21:57.670 Melle Amade: then have it published 109 00:21:57.840 --> 00:22:27.440 Melle Amade: so that oral tradition of storytelling I think it's in my blood like I just I in, you know, in my head, as I'm you know, quote unquote rioting a story which I'm actually dictating. I hear a voice in the back of my head that says, What happens next? What did she see? What did he do when she did that? So I constantly have. And you know this, this conversation going on in my head as I'm talking, that's telling me where I need to direct the story. Next 110 00:22:28.320 --> 00:22:57.399 Melle Amade: oral traditions of storytelling are so old and they're so fun. And that's really where the story was born. Then we went into printing. People learned how to read. These were all steps that changed society. And then, of course, we had the digital revolution which led to indie publishing, which changed the world for the traditional published industry. And now today, we find ourselves at AI integration. And I, 111 00:22:57.520 --> 00:23:18.699 Melle Amade: obviously, I'm a big fan of AI. I'm a fan of using it as a creative tool to help me develop the different ideas I have. So one of the ways. I like to express this in the same way that I have little voices in the back of my head. And I as authors, II feel like you guys get me and you're not gonna call the shrink 112 00:23:18.800 --> 00:23:29.109 Melle Amade: but what? What I find is that as I'm working with a I and as I type something in. And as I'm reading something on the screen, and I'm like, Oh. 113 00:23:29.140 --> 00:23:37.519 maybe maybe that's not what happens. So when we have our character, a meeting character B, and they both have a character defect that creates 114 00:23:37.620 --> 00:24:01.290 Melle Amade: 10 different. It could create any of a hundred different results, and I might read through the results. None of them are probably exactly right, but what it does is it connects to a synapse in my brain, and it gives me a third option. And it's that third option that I will often gravitate to, because it's arising out of my own creative energy. And 115 00:24:01.290 --> 00:24:28.590 Melle Amade: I think it's that fact that we are bringing our own creative vision to our stories that makes it impossible to say that you can just press a button and get, you know, a solid, great AI story. I think it requires your creative input and your vision as a storyteller for both the brand, the type of story, the tropes, and the audience that you want to connect with. 116 00:24:32.400 --> 00:24:35.909 Melle Amade: So one of the challenges that you know. I think that. 117 00:24:36.450 --> 00:25:00.869 Melle Amade: So I wanted to address that a little bit. I do a lot of story planning with AI. I still do a lot of dictation. The reason why I do the dictation is because it's very fast for me. It's something I'm very comfortable with. As you can tell. I talk rather quickly and it makes me feel good like, why are we doing this? If we're not feeling good in the process of delivering a story to our audience. 118 00:25:00.870 --> 00:25:12.290 Yes, I do all the research beforehand, both on my audience and on the topic that I'm creating. Like, let's say, for instance, my main lead is from 119 00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:22.999 Melle Amade: you know, Zimbabwe. Then I'm gonna need to know a little bit about his or her hometown. And so I'm gonna do some of that research. 120 00:25:23.640 --> 00:25:35.019 Melle Amade: The ability to do that research is greatly enhanced. And I can create a more diverse story based on my ability to research quickly into an area that is maybe new to me. 121 00:25:35.370 --> 00:25:54.150 Melle Amade: So what we're gonna see is we're gonna see a great development of complexity and volume. I'll talk a little bit more about the complexity later in terms of the story. But what it means on a technical level is that we're gonna have multiple platforms, as you see already, with areas like Tiktok and different 122 00:25:54.740 --> 00:26:09.080 Melle Amade: Ream and Patreon, where people can put up short stories, you can get your own private audience, and I know a lot of people that are selling direct to the audience that they've developed because they've created compelling content. 123 00:26:09.170 --> 00:26:15.020 Tom Wilde: Matt, Mel, can I? Just can. I just jump in because you've had a couple of questions around you mentioned dictation 124 00:26:15.250 --> 00:26:20.749 Tom Wilde: couple of questions just really interesting to know what app you use for dictation. 125 00:26:20.860 --> 00:26:25.409 Tom Wilde: just yeah. A lot of people interested know know what? Your recommendations are. 126 00:26:25.930 --> 00:26:30.079 Melle Amade: Okay? So you'll hear a lot of opinions. I use 127 00:26:31.160 --> 00:26:47.579 Melle Amade: what I refer to as my crappy little app. It cost me $4 and 99 cents, like 8 or 9 years ago. It's called right on WRIT, EON, and the reason why I like this app is because 128 00:26:47.610 --> 00:27:04.719 Melle Amade: I could put in each book as a project it counts. Does the word count for each project, and then I can enter in each chapter, and it does my word count per chapter. So a lot of times. What I'll do is I'll create the project. Then I'll create each chapter. 129 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:22.249 Melle Amade: and I'll put one or 2 lines in each chapter, and I just dictate them into my phone. I use the I use an iphone and I use. It's nothing inside the app. It's say, the the iphone capabilities for voice to text. 130 00:27:23.570 --> 00:27:44.030 Melle Amade: And then by doing that, I've got everything I need to write in the palm of my hand. I have the outline in a tool that I can just open it up and say, You know, it'll say so, and so goes to so and so goes to so, and says house and madness, and Sue's, and I know in my head what that means. It's probably a little bit more detailed than that. But so I use that tool. 131 00:27:44.420 --> 00:28:03.219 Melle Amade: I'm not, you know I'm not. I'm not saying I don't recommend it, but I know there's a lot of probably more sophisticated tools out there, but it's the word count, and the ability to break down a project in a chapter that really makes my heart saying, because I know. And and this is where we get down to the nitty gritty of how do you produce 132 00:28:03.350 --> 00:28:13.350 Melle Amade: content, or books, or stories, or chapters all the time? And I do it by knowing how many words I can speak every 15 min. 133 00:28:13.350 --> 00:28:38.220 Melle Amade: and how many words per chapter that I need. So, for example, if I'm writing one of my 50,000 word paranormal women's fiction books. I know that each chapter is gonna be about 3,000 22,000 to 3,000 words, maybe 2,500. So I know that that takes me 15 min to dictate a thousand words. So I need 45 min to dictate 3,000 words 134 00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:53.089 so I can say, oh, I'm driving to pick up my child across Los Angeles. That takes an hour, and yes, I do dictate my car. Don't tell anybody I do hands free, but there is a lot of shouting going on in my car when I'm doing that, and 135 00:28:53.410 --> 00:29:08.900 Melle Amade: In a 45 min drive. I can get 3,000 words, and a chapter done for paranormal women's fiction. For my sweet romance label. I can do 1,000 word chapters to 1,500, so I can do that in 15 to 25 min. 136 00:29:09.480 --> 00:29:34.440 Melle Amade: the ability to know how. So? So to give you some background. You know, I run a business. I write books, I have a husband and 2 children, and I also work in some pretty heavy technical industries regularly so because of all that, I'm constantly looking at my time, how can I do more content? And it's not just to get content for content sake. It's because every time I start to tell a story. 137 00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:42.880 I personally get engrossed in my stories, and it feels like I'm opening up a window to a whole new world. And from 138 00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:50.970 Melle Amade: my heart this is why I'm here. This is the thing that gives me great joy in life. So it's almost like a meditation for me. 139 00:29:51.290 --> 00:30:05.609 Melle Amade: So you know, I really encourage people to find your joy in writing, and then adapt your joy to what's going on, and we'll talk a little bit more about that as we talk more about the practical use of AI to develop your story. 140 00:30:07.210 --> 00:30:09.390 Melle Amade: So were there any other questions, Tom? 141 00:30:09.810 --> 00:30:27.219 Tom Wilde: Lots of great comments going on? Some other suggestions for what people do really interested, suggested by using rocket book notebooks next to extract stuff pages and obviously phones, you can extract text with phone cameras. Now, if you're wanting to do that, 142 00:30:27.330 --> 00:30:53.310 Tom Wilde: yeah. And and just some great people, people really encouraged by your talking about the fact that you write pen to paper talk your stories out, people saying how they're gonna be using that method. So we did have one other question. Ca, Katharina said. She's she's neurotic writer, she, but there's no AI to help erotic writers yet. I don't know if we have any tips on that. I don't know if there are any. I personally don't know if there are any AI, so you can use that for those. 143 00:30:53.390 --> 00:31:21.160 Melle Amade: Yeah, you know, they're starting to get them things like Y, and and it's a little tricky. But some of the tools. And I think sudo right is one of these. I need to double check, but they create sections, where you can write. Get more of your graphic scenes out of you know I write. I'd write dark fantasy, and again I go back to my dictation because it's faster and more efficient, and II enjoy accelerated paces. 144 00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:23.469 It's it's something I kind of thrive on. 145 00:31:24.270 --> 00:31:32.159 Melle Amade: So so I would say, yes, there are. I'd start with sudo right? And then I'd go from there. But there's definitely 2 on the market. I don't have the other one on the tip of my tongue. 146 00:31:33.560 --> 00:31:35.650 Tom Wilde: Okay, great thanks for that. 147 00:31:35.830 --> 00:31:51.730 Melle Amade: Yep, okay. So one of the things about audience engagement, you know, we talk. This. This bullet is talking about? AI informed, engaging narratives. What does that mean? Well, the competitive market? II if you, if you 148 00:31:52.100 --> 00:32:11.090 Melle Amade: are a successful writer, you are more than likely whether you know it or not. Writing tropes. So a trope is where know the second chance romance, or the military bride, or the Male Order bride for that, for that matter, or the 149 00:32:11.090 --> 00:32:35.730 Melle Amade: I forget the term of it now. But the enclosed situation where they can't escape, and they're stuck in the Snow Lodge, you know, during the winter storm, and they hate each other. That's a trope. And these tropes you can find by doing your audience research and by creating a reader profile for the types of books and types of tropes that the people reading sweet romance or reading 150 00:32:35.840 --> 00:32:58.429 Melle Amade: erotic romance or reading a fantasy romance actually are interested in right now, because of the capabilities and tools such as chat, be ch chat, Gpt, where they're allowing you to surf the Internet, not while they're writing your story. But you can do research using those I make sure I differentiate between the 2 while I'm working with it. 151 00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:12.990 Melle Amade: you can really create an amazing reader profile and understand the current trends in your market or in your genre. And with your audience. And that's where you're gonna be able to stand out because a brand can be built. 152 00:33:13.350 --> 00:33:41.379 Melle Amade: And and and I really wanna hone in on this as authors, we think we're writing books as business owners, we need to build brand. So if you want to make money in writing, you need to recognize that your books are a product that you are building a brand, and that wherever your brand is, you kind of need to love that area. Because if you're successful, you're gonna be writing those characters or that type of book a lot. 153 00:33:41.380 --> 00:33:52.440 you know you don't. It rarely do, you see? And it's getting a little more common place now. But you know Nora Roberts in general has written these, you know. 154 00:33:52.440 --> 00:34:12.180 Melle Amade: sweet romances. Jackie Collins, wrote the Hollywood romances. So there is. Everybody gets their their niche going, and that's actually how they make bank is because they're staying in a lane. So AI is gonna help give you an informed position for your brand in the marketplace. This 155 00:34:12.505 --> 00:34:25.220 Melle Amade: also, you know, I'm not gonna go detail and data driven planning. But it's also taking that look at the market and analyzing what trends are going on so that you can write stories that resonate with your audience 156 00:34:25.650 --> 00:34:52.279 the efficiency of AI is going to change the market that we sell in. So you're seeing a few things go on in in the world, right? We're seeing a diffused awareness among the younger generations. So I don't know about your kids minor, 12 and 14, and they watch reels on tick, tock, and on. I don't think they're called reels on tick, tock, but they watch tick, tock. They watch short reels on Youtube. 157 00:34:52.570 --> 00:35:06.550 Melle Amade: They don't know really what television is unless I make them sit down and watch it with me. And so we're gonna see a lot more drive towards a short attention span. Will there still be readers? Absolutely, because some of the greatest. 158 00:35:06.660 --> 00:35:36.620 Melle Amade: most of the greatest new stories come from books? Because even in Hollywood, why do they make re remakes of of all these books? Why do they take a book and turn it into a film. They do it because it has an audience already, and because it's a proven story, and nobody wants to invest. However many millions of dollars it takes to get a film off the ground, as if you know. The Martian started out as an Indie book was made into a great film. 159 00:35:36.860 --> 00:35:52.439 Melle Amade: So you know one of the reasons. I've always been a writer. I started writing a long time ago, you know, when I was in the single digits of years, and I kept writing my whole life. But I actually did my masters in film here in in 160 00:35:52.440 --> 00:36:16.370 Melle Amade: Southern California. The reason why I did that is because I knew I could always write a book on my own, but I knew I needed a team to make a film, so I was able to make some films in film school, but afterwards I realized that it would. It was the year, I think, was 2,006, 2,007, and the only films coming out of Hollywood that year. We're all remakes of books. 161 00:36:16.530 --> 00:36:47.470 Melle Amade: And I thought, you know what I'm just gonna settle down into author life and and make that happen. So that's where I've been keeping my creative focus. Now, AI is gonna change that people are looking for shorter stories. They're looking for more direct connection with an author. They wanna become members of your Patreon. They wanna watch short stories on your real. So there's a lot of different ways to engage with audiences nowadays that I don't. That absolutely didn't exist, you know, even 5 years ago, much less 10 years ago. 162 00:36:49.080 --> 00:36:53.700 Melle Amade: So why is it good? Now people will fight me tooth and nail. On this. 163 00:36:54.550 --> 00:37:22.010 Melle Amade: I believe. AI boosts originality. Why? Because you get a number of options. I'm going to quickly move through this, because I want to get to the demo and leave time for questions. It does save time. It streams, lines, your brainstorming, drafting. I'm going to show you how to do that in a second. It does ensure consistency because you can get through lines and character arcs from beginning to end of the story without having to remember all the details, or at least keeping notes, and then it can give you feedback on your style and tone. 164 00:37:22.810 --> 00:37:33.210 Melle Amade: and I am going to because of the time. This is how I used to world build. I have 100 page documents that talk all about the details of these books before I wrote a word in them. 165 00:37:34.790 --> 00:38:03.520 Tom Wilde: and I did a lot of series planning. So you'll have access to these slides, Tom. Is that true, they'll have access to look at these later. Yeah, that's right. They'll go live onto the community pages on a Youtube channel. Within 24 h. Great. So I would have a look at this. This is some of the ways that AI can help you in planning an entire series. I plot out and and plan an entire series before I write one word of chapter one of Book One. 166 00:38:03.680 --> 00:38:31.410 Melle Amade: And that way I know that everything is consistent. How do I do that today. I use. I still write by hand cause I love my pen and paper, but I also use chat GPT. And I create this tool which I'm not gonna show you today. But essentially, I use onenote. And I create folders and files. And then I do all the background. And I've asked this. This table that you're looking at here is put out by Chat GPT. After I got a lot of the details down, and you can see in my quick 167 00:38:31.410 --> 00:38:42.870 notes. Here is where I'm just brainstorming with the tool. And then I created, who are the key members of this house. What's their alliance? What's their goal? And where do they end up at the end of the book? So I have all that data 168 00:38:42.970 --> 00:38:58.119 Melle Amade: in a in or not, even at the end of the book. The in this case it's the end of the series. I have all that data compiled before I start writing for discovery writers. That might be a hard, you know, switch. But I really encourage you to look into 169 00:38:58.280 --> 00:39:02.329 Melle Amade: the tools so that you can develop. 170 00:39:02.540 --> 00:39:25.469 Melle Amade: Use AI to develop your story the way that you want to and to use the tool, how you want to use it for your creative process. And that's why I was talking a little bit about the process earlier, because I wanted to let you know that you are creative artists. However, you want to tell a story is how you want to tell a story. 171 00:39:25.920 --> 00:39:35.959 So normally at this stage, I would take audience involvement, and I'm sorry I don't think we have time to today. But I want you to take a look at this prompt. 172 00:39:35.990 --> 00:39:48.049 Melle Amade: You will get these as part of the tool, a part of the presentation. This is the prompt. I want you to act as a bestselling Indie author. You can fill in the blank. Maybe you want them to act as a triad 173 00:39:48.110 --> 00:40:04.259 Melle Amade: author's assistant and develop a werewolf hunt which hybrid character it could be anything, you know, a psychologist with a fear of snakes, you know. You can create whatever you want here. Please clarify all of the following details. 174 00:40:04.670 --> 00:40:11.950 Melle Amade: and then you just tell it everything you want it to know. So I'm going to show you what happens if we cut and paste this. 175 00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:22.190 Melle Amade: And when I get to engage with the audience at this stage, it's so much fun because they will provide things that I wasn't thinking of. 176 00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:27.549 Melle Amade: But in terms of you know, what type of character are we creating? 177 00:40:28.910 --> 00:40:32.640 Melle Amade: Let's add, in a couple of things. Give me a fear. 178 00:40:33.910 --> 00:40:35.560 Melle Amade: Fear of something 179 00:40:38.450 --> 00:40:42.030 Melle Amade: you can type just type. So you got fear of snakes. 180 00:40:42.300 --> 00:40:44.519 Melle Amade: Okay, that was the first answer. 181 00:40:45.500 --> 00:40:48.840 Melle Amade: with a fear of snakes. 182 00:40:50.340 --> 00:40:59.090 Melle Amade: Who is trying to do an impossible task. I don't know what that is. 183 00:40:59.140 --> 00:41:14.440 Melle Amade: but we're just gonna see what it comes up with. And this is what I'm saying. It's brainstorming. So you can be as murky as you want and what your general ideas are. We're gonna get this whole background. Character, information about it. We don't have to full stop except 184 00:41:14.680 --> 00:41:16.880 Melle Amade: this take. 185 00:41:18.510 --> 00:41:40.950 Melle Amade: But we start to get information. I didn't think they were bisexual, but they are. They're Canadian. So holla! Hurrah! To our Canadians in the audience! They're an occult researcher part time bartender single education as bachelors in mythology and folklore. That's exciting. So, as you can see, we now have created in 5 s. 186 00:41:41.040 --> 00:41:44.400 Melle Amade: Fear off. Is that the name for it? 187 00:41:44.500 --> 00:41:51.040 Melle Amade: A video phobia? I did not know that fear, snake vulnerability her enemies sometimes exploit. 188 00:41:51.080 --> 00:41:57.610 Melle Amade: She harbors guilt over a past event where her inability to control her powers led to friends harm. 189 00:41:59.510 --> 00:42:05.350 Melle Amade: Tom, do we? Are we? If we run over a few minutes? Is that okay? Or do I need to? No, that's fine, absolutely fine. 190 00:42:05.390 --> 00:42:12.960 Melle Amade: great. So, as you can see, we start to get their abilities, their learn skills. Do I have 191 00:42:13.090 --> 00:42:29.730 Melle Amade: backstory relationships, strong bond with grandmother? So there's a couple of things I want to show you. To make sure we touch on this. I would take all of this and post it over into my onenote, so that I had all of their information. 192 00:42:30.130 --> 00:42:40.659 Melle Amade: Her ambition is to bridge the divide between supernatural and human worlds. I can change any of this. I want to. It's not a rote topic. It's just 193 00:42:41.260 --> 00:42:59.970 Melle Amade: you know what we're looking, what we're starting point, as it were. So the arc from self doubt to embracing her identity and power. This is a really common trope in urban fantasy and in paranormal romance. So that's something we want to look at is that the trope we want to write to? Or do we want to have a different arc? 194 00:43:01.560 --> 00:43:09.840 Melle Amade: Okay, so it looks like we're continuing to generate. Sorry I missed that point. position and story we know. 195 00:43:12.450 --> 00:43:25.370 Melle Amade: So as you can see here, it starts to develop a plot idea. We can say, Hey, make the plot catalyst something different. Thematic contributions, explores themes of identity, power, and the gray areas of morality. This 196 00:43:25.420 --> 00:43:29.279 Melle Amade: is my favorite trope. I love that. 197 00:43:29.310 --> 00:43:41.730 Melle Amade: That's why I'm always attracted dark fantasy expressions by the moons as a common exclamation. So all of a sudden, you're starting to get an idea of who this character is, and different tools that you can use in developing your story. 198 00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:56.630 Melle Amade: So, her grandmother, I see her grandmother again, so I want to show you this little trick. I will copy this, I would copy this and paste it if I was working on this story. The next thing I would do is, I'd say, Hey. 199 00:43:57.180 --> 00:44:02.470 Melle Amade: her grandmother sounds really interesting. 200 00:44:03.360 --> 00:44:10.639 Melle Amade: Can you tell me more about her? What, including 201 00:44:12.190 --> 00:44:21.649 Melle Amade: including her greatest fear? And I don't remember. But for our main character. So what what I'm doing with this 202 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:35.070 Melle Amade: is, I'm exploring with this prompt so and and II basically, I call it teasing the prompt. So oh, it's give me all the here. So it's giving me the same detail of information. Now we've got the Irish involved. 203 00:44:35.210 --> 00:44:44.750 Melle Amade: Now she's a retired professor of Ancient History and Occult series and practicing witch. So all of a sudden we're building another character inside 204 00:44:44.840 --> 00:45:06.109 Melle Amade: Chat Gpt is giving me the level of content that it gave me on the same the previous character bio. I wasn't necessarily looking for that. I was looking for a couple of paragraphs. But this is gonna help me explore. Now, here's the trick. I've got to read this content. I can't just take it be like, Oh, yeah, that's great right? She speaks English. 205 00:45:06.550 --> 00:45:09.340 Melle Amade: Irish, Latin, and Gaelic fascinating. 206 00:45:09.660 --> 00:45:13.829 Melle Amade: So now, as I'm writing Chat Gp, hold on 207 00:45:16.300 --> 00:45:34.320 Melle Amade: Chapter Gbt. I can ask it for a translation of a sentence I want to write. Can you give me this in Gaelic. Can you give me this in Latin. and it will deliver that to me as I'm writing my story in that way. I'm not actually using Chatg to write my story. I'm using it to enhance my story. 208 00:45:34.380 --> 00:45:36.490 Melle Amade: Now, Maeve's greatest fear for 209 00:45:36.600 --> 00:46:03.730 Melle Amade: I'm gonna say, Eris, Iris is not just the potential for isolation or corruption by dark forces due to her unique nature. It's also the possibility that she might lose her way for getting the values in the balance that may have has worked so hard to instill. So all of a sudden I've got a character arc for the grandmother. The grandmother has to let go and let her granddaughter have have her, you know, own arc. 210 00:46:04.210 --> 00:46:17.520 Melle Amade: So that is an example. How I would start to develop characters in a story. I would start with the character basics before I moved on to the plot. Because I want to have a really good idea of who these characters are. 211 00:46:18.480 --> 00:46:20.630 Melle Amade: You're going to get all these, and I 212 00:46:20.690 --> 00:46:27.920 Melle Amade: wanted to. This is the narrative heartbeats of your romance story. So I can take this. 213 00:46:28.060 --> 00:46:42.720 Melle Amade: And these are what everybody on the call, I'm sure knows are I call it the spine of a story, because that's what we learned in film school. But it's one of the key scenes that your book hinges on, and it's using the character. So we're gonna use the character. 214 00:46:43.690 --> 00:46:49.590 Melle Amade: This is a romance story with a 215 00:46:50.530 --> 00:47:02.559 Melle Amade: I don't want to get it too complicated, but because she's bisexual, I might decide to do reverse harem and have it be a male and female love interest, but for the sake of ease, I'm going to say, with a male love interest. 216 00:47:02.690 --> 00:47:06.650 Melle Amade: make him up as you go along. 217 00:47:08.230 --> 00:47:19.240 Melle Amade: I want you to create the spine key scenes of this story, using the following guidelines. 218 00:47:22.270 --> 00:47:26.460 Melle Amade: And then I'm gonna do this. And then I'm gonna do this. 219 00:47:27.930 --> 00:47:38.430 Melle Amade: Okay. So because I haven't fleshed out the main character. Normally, I would put that in but let's see what it gives us based on this. And again, this is always exploration. 220 00:47:39.890 --> 00:47:56.819 Melle Amade: So it's created in our spine. Oh, they've created Alex. Very odd! That's my husband's name, but he's a vampire historian. That's strange. I actually wrote a book with a vampire story and not in AI. So it doesn't know anything about this. So now it's fleshing out my main scenes. 221 00:47:56.820 --> 00:48:21.239 Eris and Alex. First cross paths in the secluded library dedicated the occult. She is searching for a rare tome that she believes holds the key for her next quest. Blah blah blah! I don't have time to read all that. But all of a sudden this might be kind of generic. I haven't read it to find out, but it's going to give me ideas, or I'm gonna say, Hey, that's completely wrong. I don't want it to be a late night break in at a museum. 222 00:48:21.240 --> 00:48:24.699 I want it to be a daylight coffee at. 223 00:48:24.700 --> 00:48:38.259 Melle Amade: you know, a cafe where it's attacked by werewolves. Okay, so I'm gonna bring my own ideas to the story. But this starts to give me a spine of a story where I can think about how I want the story to develop. 224 00:48:39.540 --> 00:48:45.310 Melle Amade: Okay, the last slide you're gonna see, when you get this presentation. 225 00:48:45.400 --> 00:49:11.359 Melle Amade: is the themes of exploration and symbolism. I tend to do this before I start. And the reason is I like to have in my head. I'll just go to this. I like to have in my head some of the growth mirroring themes. Some of the different locations and plots, some of the symbols that I'm you know, gonna Riff on as I'm dictating or using AI to develop my story. 226 00:49:13.050 --> 00:49:20.589 Melle Amade: So I'm going to stop there. I'm sure that there is. You know I was moving pretty fast in there. We 227 00:49:21.090 --> 00:49:43.239 Melle Amade: here's a QR. Code. You can explore our offering. I'm working right now. Jamie Cullickens, my business partner. She is a romance author, anes. Johnson is an amazing romance author, and she was so inspired by our first courses in AI for authors that she came to me and said, Mel, I'm writing a book a week. 228 00:49:43.240 --> 00:50:06.939 Melle Amade: I'm making money. I wanna teach that to people. And so together, we crafted, you know, because it's not just about writing books. You can write 52 books a year. But if you're not marketing and understanding your market and planning your time. You you know, it's gonna it's gonna be a tough situation for you. You're not gonna make money. You're gonna go a little bit hectic, and it's gonna be a little intense. 229 00:50:07.200 --> 00:50:08.170 Melle Amade: So 230 00:50:08.660 --> 00:50:39.169 Melle Amade: we were offered this book a week. Course, Jamie, and as and I are each teaching modules in it, and in the elite course we are doing live sessions, each one of us. So there's 3 live sessions a month. It's it's pretty private. So you get one on one opportunities with us for the Pro writing Aid audience. We are using the code. Feb. 14. And because today's Valentine's day, and that will get you a discount on either one 231 00:50:39.170 --> 00:51:02.779 for 20% off, there are payment plans, and whichever I don't remember which page this QR. Code leads to. But explore the page, you'll find links from the elite to the basic package on Wh. Whichever way they go vice versa, and then make sure you enter the code. If you go to Checkout, because we we want you to get that discount, so you come on board and enjoy your time with us. 232 00:51:03.200 --> 00:51:29.510 Tom Wilde: I'm gonna stop there, I know I ran over time, Tom. Oh, thanks. I'm like trying to speed up, but it's such an you know, there's there's huge amounts. That's why we created a whole year long live course for this. Yeah, no, no, you you timing's perfect. Follow no problem about that. We've got time for for a few questions. But first of all, I just wanna say a big thank you like I said, I love seeing you speak in Vegas at 20 book. 233 00:51:30.180 --> 00:51:41.320 Tom Wilde: and exactly the same here III just think, when you see this on the screen, how you use it for kind of brainstorming and research and giving you inspiration. It's just. 234 00:51:41.710 --> 00:52:10.169 Tom Wilde: And you think how long that could take if you would. You know, doing that research and and and trying to come up with all that content just working on your own. And II get the impression, you know, a lot of people are feeling the same way in in terms of questions. I'm just gonna dive into a couple we had one quite early on when someone just said, Have you found the AI is helpful in adjusting the tone of of your work? So, for example, going from sweet romance to dark romance, is, is that something you've used at all, Mel, or would like to comment on? 235 00:52:10.170 --> 00:52:24.580 Melle Amade: So I believe what you're talking about is taking content that you've already written, putting it into a tool like Chat Gp. And saying, Rewrite this, you know, take out the violence or the graphic scenes, and make it a sweet romance. 236 00:52:24.670 --> 00:52:34.549 Melle Amade: I don't recommend that approach. And the reason why is this is because when you write a dark fantasy, romance, or a dark romance, your tropes are different. 237 00:52:34.610 --> 00:52:51.189 Melle Amade: Your tropes are a bully trope. Your trope is, you know, a a weak girl. III don't wanna be judgy or anything like that, because II love reading dark romance, but it's like, you know, an engineer, a young girl who meets an older man. He's a little bit stern. 238 00:52:51.190 --> 00:53:07.059 It's not the same trope that you have in a suite romance, and so to ask Chat Gp. To rewrite the entire thing. In a different, in a different genre, as it were. II think you're gonna spend more time at Chat Gp. Than you are in publishing. 239 00:53:07.860 --> 00:53:23.829 So I would say, start from the marketing. Figure out what the tropes for that audience are, and start from scratch. You can finish a book in a week, so you're a and it'll take you 2 or 3 weeks to fight with Chat G. Ppt. To get it, to turn your dark romance into a sweet romance. 240 00:53:24.390 --> 00:53:47.840 Tom Wilde: Great thanks, thanks, Mel. Oh, you know, we we get a lot of questions. Obviously, we in pro writing, a providing is built on our own machine learning models. But we do incorporate chat Gp. In a few of the features within the product, particularly sparks and rephrase and the Critique report, and we get asked a lot of questions of about how we use that. But just remember, you know, you're the writer. This is just. 241 00:53:47.920 --> 00:54:12.339 Tom Wilde: you can just be using this as a way of generating ideas. And speaking of that, there are a couple more questions. So what? What? This has come from? Margaret at mel chat Gpt built this character, so do they own it. Do I need permission, or will I in the future need it to use her in my story, which is, II think. a question 242 00:54:12.470 --> 00:54:17.070 Tom Wilde: we get asked in various forms, but quite often about kind of ownership here. 243 00:54:17.370 --> 00:54:20.740 Melle Amade: Okay, so here's the thing. 244 00:54:20.900 --> 00:54:45.879 Melle Amade: What I read. I'm not gonna name her, that she's gonna have different works. I might change. And and I'm not doing this on purpose. But as I go along, I'm like. Let's make the grandmother a grandfather. Let's have him be a warlock, because I think that suits the story better. So what I think we're getting here is a starting point in the same way that when I had. Let's say I wanted to write a book, and I call up Tom, and I'm like Tom. I you know I'm trying to create this 245 00:54:45.880 --> 00:55:07.010 Melle Amade: world. It's set in England, you know. What do you think? And he's like, well, English people wouldn't act like that, Mel, like your to la, and so he would correct me, you know, and provide me with some valuable feedback that I would be like. Oh, I didn't realize you like stones. Alright, I'll add stones into this story, but that's what we all used to do. 246 00:55:07.140 --> 00:55:24.439 Melle Amade: So we used to create these conversations in these writers groups, and I saw some people in the chat early on saying, Hey, I wanna have a Zoom writers group in. By the way, my time zone. And there's my email at the bottom of this slide. So if you wanna include me, I'd love to check in. But you know. 247 00:55:24.540 --> 00:55:40.620 Melle Amade: so so that's 1 point when we use it as a starting point like this. you're not going to end up with the same thing at the end, and it's just like having a conversation with a friend if I'm having it produce content. There are 2 different things to think about. 248 00:55:40.920 --> 00:56:00.069 Melle Amade: One is a tool like sudo right? Gives you the copyright control, because they basically create the by paying for the tokens. They say you bought the copyright off us. So if you did all this in Sudo right? You'd never have to think twice about it. And you could actually write an entire novel and never be concerned 249 00:56:00.070 --> 00:56:15.919 Melle Amade: if you use Microsoft Azure platform, Microsoft is, and I again, I work with a lot of corporations. So some of the things I do are a little technical. And and in the weeds. But Microsoft says, if you get taken to court, we'll back you. 250 00:56:16.340 --> 00:56:41.360 Melle Amade: Okay, so and this is like for a company that's creating like an on prem solution or using a cloud solution for their local business. Ai tool. All of that is happening. If we, as authors, don't use what we can in modern technology to grow our businesses and to develop our stories at a modern pace. I think we're gonna get a little left behind and somebody else will do it. 251 00:56:41.360 --> 00:57:06.139 Melle Amade: So I want as many, you know, natural born authors, as it were, to adopt the technology and use it how they want to. But I wouldn't worry about copyright, even if Chat Gp happened to spit out your entire story and you run it through a Chat Gpg checker. It's probably not gonna catch everything. We've put old novels that I dictated that have nothing to do with Chat Gp, and it was like, Oh, you know, 50% of this was created by AI. And I know 252 00:57:06.140 --> 00:57:09.620 for a fact, it wasn't. So. It's the bit of the Wild West. 253 00:57:09.730 --> 00:57:29.579 Tom Wilde: Yeah, absolutely, totally totally agree with that, Mel. Thank you for that. And, by the way, you've really started something with comments about writers, groups in California. Now, I think you're going to be getting. I love writers groups. That's where I got my start, you know. It's like hanging out with a couple, and they were tried published authors, and you know I've convinced one to go India and the other one still fighting tried. 254 00:57:30.240 --> 00:57:32.639 Tom Wilde: and your English accent was pretty good. By the way. 255 00:57:32.750 --> 00:57:40.220 Tom Wilde: Okay, we gotta. I try for couple of questions. 256 00:57:40.220 --> 00:57:54.569 Tom Wilde: okay. So someone says, sometimes, Chat Gbt doesn't understand my prompt very well. So the answer is different from what I'm looking for any guidance on how to use that. And and I'm assuming this is just experimentation, right? So you just oh, there's a way to prompt properly. 257 00:57:54.570 --> 00:58:17.629 Melle Amade: Tom. You know, when when you prompt, there are ways to do super prompt. There's ways to, you know. We have a chat, gpt, prompting course for free on our website, Aiforcescom. Go to the store, take a look at that, understand the anatomy of a prompt. So you understand what you're asking and why it's responding in certain ways to what you're asking. 258 00:58:17.800 --> 00:58:34.969 Melle Amade: At the same time, I also tell it you're being stupid. I don't like that idea. Create something along this vein, and sometimes I'll start a whole new thread, or I'll shut my computer in irritation. So it does have a way of hallucinating. But I think if you need to understand as much as you can about prompts. 259 00:58:34.970 --> 00:58:48.259 I've been working with Sudo right to create these super prompts, which basically gives it a series of provide me with this information. Once you've done that, take the result from that information and then do this with it. 260 00:58:48.330 --> 00:59:06.400 Melle Amade: So there is some super creative, high, level ways that you can deliver prompts. But it takes a little more agility. It's not easy saying, you know, really. And and and I think the other thing is is that it's never going to. 261 00:59:06.560 --> 00:59:10.490 Melle Amade: If it's gone off, the off the rails start over. 262 00:59:12.380 --> 00:59:13.709 Tom Wilde: Yeah. Great point 263 00:59:14.030 --> 00:59:33.190 Tom Wilde: cool. Okay, so we're drawing right up to the hour. I'm gonna I'm gonna close with a question that I feel just need some kind of an empathetic response from Laura, who said, sleep deprived Mom of a toddler here. I think, she her question came in Mel, when you were talking about you working, you know writing when you had 264 00:59:33.210 --> 00:59:49.479 Tom Wilde: your children as well when your children are even younger. And Laura says, did you find it hard to find the time to write when they're little. This is nothing. Chat TPT. By the way, and were you able to find more time as they got older? And if so, what age did you get back to your normal pace of writing? So? 265 00:59:49.530 --> 01:00:05.200 Melle Amade: I was terrified. I'll be as sure as possible. I was terrified when I got pregnant like, I'm never gonna finish this book. So I was getting up at 6 Am. To write by hand. My my first, but not my first, but my first published novel, 266 01:00:06.220 --> 01:00:30.529 Melle Amade: You've got to grab moments as they come. I that's why I picked up dictation. I can stay. Sit outside my kids school waiting for it to get out. There was not an age where it got easier, because now they invite like 8 friends over on the weekend, and I'm the hostess with the mostest, you know. And so, you know, I'll stand in an airport and I'll be dictating a chapter on my phone. 267 01:00:30.530 --> 01:00:46.509 You have to be prepared to write at any time. You have to have the tools on you to write at any time, and you have to be prepared. Deep breath. Find that meditative spot. I don't write from a alpha brain place. I write from a meditative place 268 01:00:46.510 --> 01:01:03.789 Melle Amade: in the midst of all the chaos. Even when I'm driving, I write from my heart, and and inside, where it just flows, and you've got to be prepared to enter that space at any time, especially when you have young kids. I wrote all my first novels when my kids were like 2, 3, 4, 269 01:01:05.480 --> 01:01:12.969 Tom Wilde: thanks, Mel, right? And the writing and the jobs. I know. It's I know it's a challenge. I live it. 270 01:01:13.050 --> 01:01:40.620 Tom Wilde: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So everybody. I told you this would be a good one right? So much great content. Now, Mel, thank you ever so much for sharing that with us. Do not worry. If you weren't able to grab information on the slides, or or anything that Mel said. It will all be part of that recording that will be available via the Hub page. It'll be uploaded there. You should sit there by tomorrow at the latest. It'll be available until the first March 271 01:01:40.740 --> 01:01:51.069 Tom Wilde: and and in perpetuity if you are a premier member. So upgrade while you can. So yeah, you replays. And, as I said. 272 01:01:51.080 --> 01:02:06.059 Tom Wilde: join the community, there's all sorts of conversations going on there, and other events. We would love to see you there. It's totally free, and we'd love to catch you on the next session, too, so big. Thank you for me, Mel. I don't even feel any parting words. 273 01:02:06.200 --> 01:02:18.769 Melle Amade: 2 things happy. Valentine's day. Love yourself first, and my email address is at the bottom. So. But if you, you know, if you want to reach out, I'm always game to have a conversation about writing. It's my passion. 274 01:02:19.800 --> 01:02:38.169 Tom Wilde: Thank you, Mel. Thank you so much for giving us some of your time. We really appreciate it. Everybody who's joined us likewise really a huge thank you for joining us today. I hope you found this useful. I'm sure you have good luck in your next romance novel project. 275 01:02:38.310 --> 01:02:47.569 Tom Wilde: And yeah, we'll see you on the next the next romance writers. Week event. Okay, have a great day. Everybody see you soon. 276 01:03:18.610 --> 01:03:24.239 Tom Wilde: Okay, Mel. Thank you so much for doing that. It's brilliant great to have you with us. 277 01:03:24.280 --> 01:03:26.609 Melle Amade: Thank you. It's such a pleasure. 278 01:03:26.870 --> 01:03:33.519 Melle Amade: we're not recording anymore. Right? I was just scanning through the chat. And I it was. It's just great.