Welcome to 2023! Join as Jerry and Rich talk about writing (and sometimes their lack of it), and their publishing hopes. They talk about how to use ChatGPT with Story Grid, looking into cover art, and speak on any other random thing that pops into their head.

If you're an existing author or are writing your first book, come and listen to us because we were in the same boat as you. We've made mistakes, so you don't have to! Come hear about our successes and our mistakes, and find out where we spend money and where we shouldn't have spent money. We'll tell you everything we did to be successful (or fail...as the case may be). And you'll hear a pleasant conversation about how to use ChatGPT with Story Grid, looking into cover art, marketing tools and how to gain newsletter subscribers. 

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In what could be our best episode ever, this week we talk about:

Power Outages and Air Conditioning

Facebook Author Page

Casinos

POV or multiple POVs?

Brandon Sanderson

No Added Sugar

Plotting with ChatGPT

Traveling

2023 20 Books Vegas

Jerry's new golf swing

Other Links:

Shawn Inmon's 20 Books Talk on Facebook Author Page: Link

100Covers: Link

Jane Kalmas Videos: Link1 : Link2

Brandon Sanderson Video: Link

vdo.ninja

Rich's ChatGPT Prompts:

After working through the outline, he did this Story Grid prompt:

Okay, let's work with this outline for now. If you are familiar with Shawn Coyne's book The Story Grid, please provide beats for each chapter that provides for opening on one polarity and ending on another. If you don't understand, let me know.

After combining two twists, he asked this one. It really helps find flaws you would probably find while writing:

Are there any big flaws with that idea?

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