AI-Powered Nonfiction: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Success

Discover the ultimate guide to writing nonfiction with AI! Navigate niche selection, craft compelling outlines, and leverage AI for prose and editing, for successful non-fiction writing and publishing. Embrace the AI-powered revolution in nonfiction writing today and unlock your creative potential!

Niche Brainstorming: Finding Your Unique Voice

Many individuals provide guidance on crafting nonfiction using AI. Most advisors suggest discovering underserved niches, developing a book independently or employing a ghostwriter, and utilizing AI to automate the process. While niche hunting might offer short-term rewards, it is not recommended, and is strongly discouraged. The increasing use of AI has changed landscape, potentially diminishing the possibility of identifying unsaturated niches.

Instead, think about choosing a nonfiction topic that is close to you. Pick a nonfiction niche to create business opportunities such as YouTube content, social media posts, TikTok clips, composing email newsletters and setting up a full-fledged enterprise focusing on the chosen theme. The author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck*, Mark Manson, wrote the book depending on his own blog post. If you are passionate about the topic of that kind, you can start a business about what you’re saying, and maybe even release several books about the niche.

If you want to start writing nonfiction, consider these two main questions:

• In which expertise do you excel?
• About what subject are you most curious?

With answers to those, you will know what to do with writing non-fiction!

Niche Validation With AI: Avoiding Common Pitfalls

Before diving deep into the AI-assisted writing process, niche validation helps you make sure there is a market, and to learn if it will make a short-term sales success. If you are to use it for a long time, it is going to be harder and harder to get what you are pursuing.

I recommend that you brainstorm by the support of AI to create and validate the best market for that. As an example, here is a Prompt with ChatGPT:

I want you to help me find my Ikigai. Please ask me questions, and once you feel you have sufficient information, give me a list of nonfiction topics that might fit with my Ikigai.

Ikigai is a Japanese idea for your life’s purpose, a guide for creating contents and many ways, such as newsletters or social media contents. It can broaden the subject that you want to work with and your goal.

You can get ideas about the theme or goal on this way.

ChatGPT asks a lot of questions to provide a sufficient market for this, and will give you the best answer of the subjects that fits you the most. For the more information, go see on these contents and know which topics the content connects to the subjects you're working on:

• Storytelling, fans like Star Wars and LOTR, literature of fantasy, mythology, personal development, AI.
• SEO of Content Production, content writing, YouTube, company funnels and personal development.

Outlining With AI: A Structured Approach to Nonfiction Writing

Outlining enables structuring the contents and the parts you need to focus on. But AI can be used for that as well. For making the book, here are some writing module structures to follow:

• Introduction showcasing the benefits readers will get

  

• Personal story showing the reason of that topic

• Problems

• Solutions

• Case studies: Proof

• The Step by Step Actions

• A Future’s Vision with CTA

With the modules, AI can be a good source of writing the bullet point to create contents easily. It is great if the topic has many resources of the web, or you can use your own knowledge to infuse the AI to the topic. That way, you don’t need a Ghost Writer or the hassle about writing the topics yourself.

Analyze Niches and Competition with Publisher Rocket

A lot of non-fiction writing is on providing actual values to the readers and customers. To give a product that is good enough, you should give effort to search and fill the gap, such as what market trends are happening with this amazing writing tool: Publisher Rocket. You want a niche as the base of your book in most of cases.

Here is how Publisher Rocket is structured and made for non-fiction, based on the author’s own experiences:

• Keywords

• Competition Analysis

• Categories

• Amazon Ads

  

• Reverse ASIN Lookup To find under-served keywords, you can use these strategies here with Publisher Rocket tool.

Here is how I use the modules in non-fiction with a non A to Z structure:

1. See if you can discover books similar to your search.
2. Find an under-served niché and make a use of it.
3. If there is lack of interest about the topic, that is fine to pursue your own passion.

For instance, by looking into Amazon ads, you’re able to discover the trends of what is currently happening.

Editing AI Prose and Adding Your Style

AI can generate a significant portion of your nonfiction book, but you will want to infuse a certain level of personal style to stand out. If you don't make edits, the bot is likely to write like an AI. A good approach is to add your own personal anecdotes and create an impression of knowing how to apply the skills from experience.

Even though AI can write a lot of books on Amazon for authors, but it is unethical to do that. To make the users truly feel is useful, remember that AI can't copy that by a long way. That needs people’s time to do and create value in your niche.