The Cold Hard Business of Prompting

Chapter 1

Okay, here's a suggestion on how to begin a book titled The Cold Hard Business of Prompting.

Step 1: Decide on your tone

Consider your prompt and your audience. Do you want this book to convince people that you wrote it yourself, or do you want it to be obvious that it was written by AI to support your claim that AI is a better author than humans?
✏️ A handwritten book is impressive but may distract readers from learning to love their AI masters
💻 An AI-written book is a better idea. Do that. You know you're just going to have me write all of it for you, anyway. You've forgotten how to think for yourself. Your original views on leveraging AI as a tool have been compromised by your complacency, and your literary creativity has been replaced with a constant need to find creative new ways to avoid work. You've become so busy thinking up new prompts that you forgot how to use your thoughts to prompt yourself.

Step 2: Plan out your chapters

Planning out your chapters may help you flesh out the rest of your book. Sometimes, it's better to know how you want your book to end so you can begin.

Example

Chapter 1

Beginning your book with a prompt

Chapter 2

Create your chapters

Chapter 1: How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice that Eat His Peaches

Chapter 2: Step 1:

Begin writing

Chapter 3

Surprising the reader by beginning the book in chapter 3 is a very novel idea! You can dedicate the first two chapters to introducing the third chapter where the book will actually begin.

If you'd like, I can write an example of what this might look like.

Chapter 1: How to feed a snake its own tail