ChatGPT - A Writer's Tool
Nov 15, 2024 by Harold Emanuel
What is ChatGPT? Think of ChatGPT as a search engine, research assistant, and writing coach. Say you’re doing research for a book you’re writing. You want to accurately describe your book’s setting. You scour libraries and bookstores looking for material. You enter prompts in a search engine such as Google and may be referred to multiple sources. You must then compile the data you found. Or, if you are a wealthy, best-selling author, you ask your research assistant to do this work. If, like me, you’re not a wealthy, best-selling author, you must do all the work yourself. Or you can use ChatGPT.
Let me give you an example of using this tool to describe a setting.
Let me give you an example of using this tool to describe a setting.
Today in History - June 15th, 1904 - General Slocum Disaster
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On June 15, 1904, the sidewheel passenger steamboat General Slocum caught fire and sank in the New Yor City’s East River.
Brooklyn Bridge Disaster
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TODAY IN HISTORY - May 31, 1883
I have completed the manuscript of my historical novel Aliyah- A Jewish Family Saga. The novel follows the Hermanski family from their escape from an 1881 Warsaw pogrom through their settlement in late 19th and early 20ths century New York. Throughout the book the family interacts with historic people, places, and events. For example:
I have completed the manuscript of my historical novel Aliyah- A Jewish Family Saga. The novel follows the Hermanski family from their escape from an 1881 Warsaw pogrom through their settlement in late 19th and early 20ths century New York. Throughout the book the family interacts with historic people, places, and events. For example:
