How to Write a Book with AI in 2024 (Free & Paid Tools)

• Aug 31, 2024
• 5 min read

• Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Book Writing, Fiction Writing, Novel Writing

Writing a book with AI is like having a genie in a lamp – it can grant all your wishes. In this article, we’ve explained how to use AI for every step: from generating ideas to developing characters, plot, editing, book cover design, and marketing. 

This article includes amazing paid and free AI tools along with useful pointers. We’ve also added a bonus section of 20 amazing prompts you can use. So let’s explore how to write a book using AI! 

1. Use AI tools for brainstorming 

The following tools can help you beat writer’s block and get fresh perspectives to write your story: 

• • • Use writing prompt generators like Servicescape, Seventh Sanctum, Squibler, Story Shack, and Random Words Generator. 
    • Take advantage of setting generators RanGen, Donjon, Springhole, Seventh Sanctum 
    • Explore and brainstorm using character name generators like Fantasy Name Generators, RandomGenerators.com, Name-Generator.org, Bookbird, Behind the Name 

Recommendations 

• • • • Experiment by combining prompts, settings, and character names. 
      • Select prompts, settings, or characters that challenge you to write from unfamiliar viewpoints. 

Now let’s see how to write a book with AI and conduct research using advanced tools. 

2. Use AI tools for book research 

Following are the tools that you can use for book research: 

1. ChatGPT: You can give ChatGPT prompts to list books and common tropes related to the same genre and analyze how people communicate in different dialects. 

a. Sample prompt: List down famous books belonging to the genre romance published in 2023. 

b. Sample prompt: Mention 20 common tropes belonging to the genre fantasy that are widely used. 

c. Sample prompt: Tell me how a person would answer the question: “Where are you from?” if he used the Australian English dialect.

2. Claude: It can offer insights into the cultural, social, and political aspects of different time periods or societies, helping you create a more authentic and nuanced fictional world.

a. Sample prompt: My mystery novel is set in 1920s New York City. Describe the political, cultural, and social landscape of the time. 

3. Gemini: This AI tool can suggest multiple perspectives on existing books like Claude and ChatGPT.

a. Sample prompt: Give me multiple perspectives to write a new book based on John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars.

Recommendations 

• • • • To use AI to write a book, provide context For example, instead of “What was daily life like in ancient Rome?”, a good prompt can be: “Describe the sights, sounds, and smells a Roman citizen might encounter walking through the Forum on a busy market day.” 
      • Ask open-ended questions to get different perspectives and find good plot twists. For example, “What if fairytales were coded messages passed down through generations to warn of real dangers?” Ask multiple “What if” questions to generate multiple viewpoints. 

Now let’s see how to write a book with AI by developing characters! 

3. Use AI tools to develop characters 

1. Character.AI: This tool helps to enhance dialogues and create characters with specific backgrounds. Writers can train the AI characters they develop by having conversations with them. This can help them experiment with dialogue and see how characters might respond in various situations.

Here are some other features of this tool:  

a. Select the “Pin message” option to save important messages, and use the feature of group chats (Rooms) for chats between multiple characters. 

b. To determine the character’s personality, users can also choose between famous fictional characters like Loki, Dr Strange, Batman, Wonder Woman, Daenerys Targaryen, etc. Alternatively, they can create their own characters and analyze their speech patterns for their story. 

2. Sudowrite: Use it to brainstorm character descriptions, backstories, relationships, or even internal monologues to uncover hidden depths.

a. If you’re dissatisfied with your writing, you can select the text you’re unhappy with and rewrite it. The tool gives various options like “Show Not Tell”, “More Descriptive”, “Shorter”, “More Inner Conflict”, and “More Intense” to rewrite the text. 

b. You can also select text and choose the option “Expand” to describe a scene in greater detail. 

Recommendations 

• • • • Use these tools to focus on describing what the character sees, hears, smells, tastes, and touches. 
      • Create multiple scenarios to see how different characters react under pressure by giving specific prompts. For example, you can use a prompt like, “How would a character who has undergone trauma during a war react when someone threatens to destroy his house? By putting pressure on characters, you can decide the direction for your story. 

Using AI to write a book’s plot helps to enhance it further. Let’s explore this in the next section. 

4. Use AI tools to enhance the plot 

Following are some of the tools that you can use for developing the plot

1. Novel AI: Using this tool, you can copy the writing style of well-known writers (e.g., Arthur Conan Doyle), choose your desired themes, rewrite the text, and get relevant prompts to add to your text. 

2. Inklewriter: Inklewriter is a free, interactive storytelling tool that allows you to create branching narratives. Branching narratives are stories that offer readers or players choices to shape the plot. Inklewriters gives you 1 or 2 alternatives at various plot points for how your story should progress.   

3. Story generators: You can use the best story generator tools given by Editpad, Hix.AI, Simplified, and Perchance for brainstorming. 

Recommendations 

• • • • Select story generators that allow you to fill in your plot details like characters and plot. 
      • Use Novel AI’s creative writing prompts to expand your story scenes and experiment with Inklewriter to develop plot twists. 

After learning about how to use AI to write a book, let’s see AI tools that you can use for book editing! 

5. Use AI tools for checking, revising, and editing

1. ProWritingAid: You can use this tool for checking spelling, and grammar. This tool also gives detailed feedback to improve the plot, setting, character development, and pacing of the story (25+ writing reports). 

2. Hemingway Editor: You can use this tool to identify long and complex sentences, rectify spelling and grammar mistakes, and improve word choice. 

3. Autocrit: This tool includes a spelling checker, a grammar checker, and highlights repetitive words and sentence structure. It also gives detailed statistics of the story’s dialogues, pacing, and characters to enhance them. 

Recommendations

• • • • Instead of using these tools after you complete your book, consider running individual chapters or sections through them as you write and revise. 
      • Take the time to explore the tool settings and adjust them based on your writing style, genre, and target audience. 

6. Use AI tools to decide the title 

Following are some of the best book title generators that you can use to select the title: 

1. ToolBaz: This tool gives you the option to fill in the details of your story to generate a compelling book title. 

2. WriterBuddy: This tool allows you to fill in your book’s topic details and gives you 3 title suggestions for your book. 

3. Reedsy: Reedsy’s book title generator gives users options to select from genres such as romance, mystery, crime, fantasy, and sci-fi to generate the book title. 

Recommendations

• • • • Combine generated titles to get an attractive book title. 
      • Select titles that are easy to remember, spell, and pronounce. Ensure that they accurately reflect your book’s themes and content. 

If you’re still confused, you can read the article “How to Write a Book Title” to craft an engaging book title. 

7. Use AI tools for brainstorming about the book cover design 

1. Midjourney: To use this free AI image generator, you need to give a prompt and choose the height and width to generate the image. 

2. Adobe Express: This is a free tool that provides thousands of free templates, various filters, and art styles to create an attractive book cover. It also has the option to add or remove unwanted elements to create a book cover. 

3. Canva: You can use Canva’s free photos, and pre-designed templates to create professional book covers. Use the “Magic Write” feature to get suggestions about the content on your book’s cover. 

Recommendations

• • • • Jot down specific keywords related to your book’s genre and describe what you wish to see on the book cover. This will give you a clear direction while using these tools. 
      • Choose the best book fonts that complement your book’s genre and tone instead of solely relying on AI. 

8. Use AI tools for marketing your book

1. BuzzSumo: BuzzSumo can help you research and brainstorm marketing ideas, find influencers, and generate engaging content. You can use it to write an attractive book blurb and book description. 

2. Adcreative.ai: This tool allows you to add details about your book cover, target audience, and key selling points, and the AI will generate different ad variations for various social media platforms. You can also automate ad campaigns and generate compelling ad copies for marketing on Amazon. 

3. Headlime: This tool generates compelling book promotion content for various platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Whether you want captions, ad copies, content for email newsletters, or book descriptions, this tool can do it for you!

Recommendations 

• • • • Use these AI tools for tasks like A/B testing marketing copy variations, creating taglines, and experimenting by giving AI out-of-the-box prompts. 
      • Decide the goals before using these tools and monitor the results and budget used on these AI tools. 

Now let’s see 20 practical prompts to use AI to write a book. 

20 useful prompts to write a book with AI

1. Analyze the following scene and suggest how to make it more engaging: [Insert scene] 

2. Make the following dialogues shorter, and crisper, and use better wording for the dialogues without changing the meaning: [Insert dialogues]. 

3. Read the following character description and tell me the character’s reactions in challenging situations: [Insert character description]. 

4. Analyze if there are any loopholes or inconsistencies in the following plot: [Insert plot details]. 

5. Suggest multiple perspectives and alternatives on how to make the following climax more intense: [Insert information about the plot and climax]. 

6. Tell me how to make the following setting description more creative without changing the meaning: [Insert the setting description]. 

7. Suggest new holidays and days that can be celebrated in the following fantasy world:  [Insert fantasy world description] 

8. Tell me how to keep the main antagonist a secret till the climax by analyzing the following plot and sequence of events: [Insert plot and sequence of events] 

9. How to write a children’s book with AI? Suggest the best AI tools for developing the plot, characters, setting, conflict, climax, editing, book marketing, and editing. 

10. Explain what can be the consequences of the following action on the characters: [Insert information about an action that disrupts the life of characters]. 

11. Tell me how would the relationship between character [Insert name] and character [name] be impacted due to the following situation and actions; [Insert information about the situation and action where characters are involved]. 

12. Suggest 10 plot twists by analyzing the following information about the plot: [Insert information about the plot]. 

13. Tell me how to describe the following message more creatively using a letter, story, email, or literary devices: [Insert information]. 

14. Recommend how should I convey the following information without using dialogues: [Insert information about the characters’ moods, feelings, emotions, story’s atmosphere, and mood] 

15. Tell me various perspectives on how can I explore the theme of magic by analyzing the following plot: [Insert plot] 

16. Help me enhance the following interaction between two characters where the character named [Insert name] is Australian and the character [Insert name] is German: [Insert character interaction] 

17. Tell me how the attitudes and habits will differ between two characters, one of which is Indian and the other is American. Tell me how can I use their different habits and attitudes by analyzing the following plot: [Insert information about the plot] 

18. Explain how I can write a book that breaks free from traditional romance genre conventions. 

19. List 10 unexplored themes related to the genre fantasy that I can use for writing a fantasy novel. 

20. Suggest creative chapter titles for the following story by analyzing the following titles and ensuring the titles aren’t too long: [Insert all chapter titles]. 

Our guide on using AI to write a book ends here! Now it’s your turn to explore the possibilities with these AI tools! Remember, even with AI assistance, completing your manuscript is just the first step; professional editing is crucial for polished writing. 

At PaperTrue, we provide high-quality AI + professional human editing services. Our trained team of editors can perfectly edit your book, removing all grammar and word choice errors. With this, they also give in-depth feedback to enhance the plot, characters, and setting. Feel free to reach out if you ever require professional editing and proofreading services! 

Do you have any other suggestions about how to use AI to write a book? Let us know in the comments section! 

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