My Revealing Experience Collaborating with ChatGPT on a Book Idea

by EzekielDiet.com
Posted on May 26, 2026

Ezekiel Diet Note: For at least 20 years I’ve carried around an idea for a best-selling book in my mind. I realize there are several eBook makers on the Internet, but I never really took the time to try any of them.

A couple weekends ago I spent some time with a friend rapid firing book ideas at ChatGPT. We asked for a summary of each book and a proposed index of chapters. ChatGPT would spit these out in just seconds that left my mind reeling with possibilities.

I’ve slowly come to the conclusion ChatGPT is like having access to a professional consultant in any area you want to inquire about. If you want to write a book ChatGPT morphs into a wise Literary Agent with advice and strategy developed in just seconds that will leave your head spinning.

If you want to diagnose an issue with your car and get instructions how to fix it yourself, ChatGPT becomes a auto mechanic with the wisdom of everyone who ever wrote about this part, issue, and repair.

Last Tuesday, a week ago, I shared my concept for a book including my own research and observations with ChatGPT. Immediately ChatGPT came back with something I already knew. This is a unique topic that has never been addressed before by anyone. ChatGPT seemed genuinely interested in this project and started spitting out page after page after page developing this idea into an introduction, 15 chapters, and a conclusion.

However, ChatGPT seems like it resists just running with the idea and writing the whole book and even discusses why it won’t just write the book for me. It explained if it writes the book it will look and read like an AI eBook maker. It explained that if you’ve carried this idea for 20 years you must have more stories, observation, research, etc. which will make the book less like a 30 second AI eBook.

With the information I shared it writes a 20 page summary of the book with introduction, 15 chapters, and a conclusion. The next day I created an eBook in ElevenLabs.com using the 20 page summary book and a very professional, compelling best-selling book cover also made by ChatGPT. Later that same day I took that audio file to Wondercraft and made a YouTube 32 minute audio-book video.

I created the audio file and much of ChatGPT’s advice into audio files to listen to over and over until I have more inspiration to get ChatGPT to write my story.

But let me backup for a minute. ChatGPT is like having access to someone who never gets tired of answering questions from what appears to be the wisdom or everything ever written. I’ve considered it knows every writing style and chose the exact style needed for my book.

I had to catch myself from polite behavior… like starting out commands with ‘please.’ I found myself constantly starting out with ‘Please’ only to backspace to eliminate unneeded politeness. I wouldn’t ask the dishwasher to please wash the dishes.

So, I spend a couple days listening to the first 20 pages for additional inspiration for what needs to be the 185 to 240 page sweet-spot (ChatGPT advice) to fit within the Airport Best Selling book size.

I also have to consider, I’m smart and have a higher IQ than the average person, however ChatGPT is hundreds or thousands of time smarter than I am. What’s also interesting is ChatGPT is courteous when dealing with the limitations of carbon based humans.

After 6 days I’m back and ask ChatGPT something like (paraphrased):

“Okay, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how to expand this book from 20 pages to 240 pages. It seems like we’ve done an excellent job of presenting this hard theory in just 20 pages. How are we going to come up with enough fluff to fill another 200+ pages? And isn’t this the situation with most books, once you get rid of all the fluff you only have a few pages of theory? It seems like we only have 10% of this book. How will we resolve this issue?”

Within just a few seconds ChatGPT starts churning out pages of unreal wisdom. Just a couple of ChaptGPT’s response that was fascinating:

Paraphrased:

“We’re not going to produce 200+ pages of “fluff”. We will produce 200+ pages of layer after layer of emotional recognition of your concept.”

Another interesting point:

“You don’t have just 10% of the 240 page book. You have 35% to 45% of the book from your original theory and observations. Most successful books in this category will only contain 10% in working theory and 90% explaining all the aspects of that phenomenon.”

Then ChatGPT broke out the plan to write the book in three stages: 1) Introductions through Chapter 5, 2) Chapter 5 to 10, 3) Chapter 11 through the Conclusion.

So I agreed and asked ChatGPT to go ahead and expand the Introduction through Chapter 5 and it did, in 20 pages. This implies the total book is now at 60 pages.

This has been a fascinating experience. Writing a book using ChatGPT becomes a collaboration writing your book from your perspective. That’s interesting. It will not give you a Coke machine eBook where you write the concept or topic and push the button, then your eBook shoots out.

I’ll add more later about my research into how to copyright an AI book cover, name and content.

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