Killer ChatGPT Prompts

13ChatGPT Prompts for Creative Writing and Fiction Writing

IN CHAPTER 3, YOU learned how to use ChatGPT to turbocharge your writing of business documents and materials—everything from email messages to business letters and proposal documents. But ChatGPT is just as happy to help you with creative writing and fiction writing as with business writing.

In this chapter, you'll see how to prompt ChatGPT to boost your creative writing and fiction writing. We'll start with using ChatGPT to blast through writer's block, looking at the types of prompts you can wield to get ChatGPT to generate plots, scenes, and characters for you—and how you can get ChatGPT to write in different styles. We'll then move on to turning ChatGPT into exactly the kind of helpful editor and literary critic you want to have advise you on your magnum opus. Finally, we'll look briefly at how to ask ChatGPT to write poetry for you.

Break Through Writer's Block

If you've ever suffered from writer's block, you know the torment of being faced by a blank page, with thoughts swirling and the telltale clock ticking, but no usable words emerging.

At such times, you can reach for ChatGPT and break through the block in mere moments. All you need to do is tell ChatGPT roughly what you want, whether it be an entire plot, a scene, or a new character.

The following sections give you quick examples.

Ask ChatGPT to Create an Entire Plot for You

When you need a plot, prompt ChatGPT with the plot parameters you've determined ...