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发现5个真实的作者使用ChatGPT来提高创造力和效率，而不失去个人风格的例子。

在本文中，OpenAI 探索了职业作家使用 ChatGPT 提升写作能力的五种方式，强调 AI 可以作为一种工具，帮助他们提高写作效率、提供反馈、激发灵感和推动创新。这些作家明确表示他们并不是用 ChatGPT 来取代写作过程，而是通过它更好地探索想法，并保持个人的声音和风格。以下是文章中的详细讨论：

1. 编辑反馈

写作是一项孤独的活动，作者们常常过于专注于自己的观点，以至于难以保持对自己作品的批判性。传统上，编辑的角色是提供新的观点，并帮助作者改善他们的作品。然而，编辑并不总是随时可得，通常他们只会对已完成的手稿提出建议。

在这方面，ChatGPT可以作为一个即时辅助工具，帮助作者在写作的每个阶段提供反馈。例如，编剧David Cornue将ChatGPT视为一个全天候的虚拟“作家工作室”，并使用ChatGPT讨论故事情节并解决叙事问题。他强调ChatGPT的角色是“故事合作者和评估者”，而不是“故事生成器”。他从不让人工智能重写场景，而是通过交互反馈解决故事中的问题，保持自己作为创作者的主导地位。

2. 找到合适的词语

一个优秀作家的标志是能找到最合适的表达方式，但这个过程通常是非常耗时和费力的。前纽约时报专栏作家法哈德·曼朱提到，ChatGPT帮助他提高了在找到精确词汇方面的效率。他把ChatGPT看作一个动态的词典和类比生成器，不仅提供词汇，还根据上下文提供更精确的表达建议。曼朱强调，ChatGPT不仅帮助他找到合适的词语，还提供关于创意表达方式如类比、隐喻和成语的建议，帮助他在写作时表达更清晰和更有趣的想法。

3. 反向面试

大多数人习惯于向ChatGPT提问并获取答案，但作家Stew Fortier发现在提问者时ChatGPT对他更有帮助。他将这种方法称为“反向采访”，ChatGPT通过一系列有深度的问题引导他表达自己的想法。这个过程激发了他的创造力，并促使他更清晰地表达自己正在思考的事情。

Stew Fortier相信人工智能不是要取代作家的创造过程，而是可以帮助作家突破创造瓶颈，通过提出问题和发现创意来提供灵感。他特别强调ChatGPT作为一个“一直在你身边的编辑”，没有任何批评，是帮助作家提高创造效率的有效工具，尤其是在写作的非创造性部分（如研究和整理资料）中。

4. 喜剧写作

幽默可能看起来很容易，但制作笑话背后的研究和准备是繁琐的。喜剧作家莎拉·罗斯·西斯金德说，ChatGPT在喜剧写作中非常有用，特别是在研究笑话背景时。她不让ChatGPT生成完整的笑话，而是用它来开始创建对话。通过与ChatGPT互动，她能够收集丰富的主题和背景信息，从而更专注于创建笑话的“有趣点”。

莎拉提到她经常要求ChatGPT帮助她为笑话设定背景。例如，当她正在撰写一篇关于节目《红鲨池》的讽刺文章时，她会问ChatGPT：“人们在《红鲨池》上说些什么？”通过这些对话，她能够找到独特的元素进行夸张，使笑话更具创意和幽默。

5. 研究和世界构建

对于作家来说，写作不仅仅是表达已知的东西，还包括通过研究探索新的世界和概念。作家Elle Griffin指出，传统的研究过程往往耗费大量的时间和精力，她过去常常陷入在谷歌和维基百科的信息洪流中。现在，ChatGPT加快了她的研究过程，提供即时答案，并帮助她激发创造力。例如，当她想象人类在一百万年内会如何进化时，ChatGPT帮助她找到了关于水下生活的研究，这些研究激发了她小说中的章节。

Elle Griffin提到ChatGPT不仅帮助她加快了研究过程，还为她提供了一些意想不到的联系和发现，帮助她构建一个更具创造力的世界。

五种专业作家使用ChatGPT的方法

我们分享了一些作家如何在创作过程中使用ChatGPT的例子。

作家们将ChatGPT用作思想启发的伙伴，故事顾问，研究助手和编辑，以讨论想法，找到合适的词语，澄清思路，并获得关于结构和流程的反馈。

作者:

Hi! I want to write a short story, but I need a little help getting started. Can you help me come up with an interesting and original premise?

I’d like all the ideas to come from me, but I want your help eliciting them. First, provide me with 10 questions to:

Inspire my creativity and imagination

Prompt me to juxtapose disparate concepts or settings to create novel ideas

Recall meaningful memories, funny stories, conversations, and emotional moments from my own life experiences

Then, ask me each question one at a time. For each response, ask two follow-up questions, one at a time, before moving on to the next question. Let's have a fun and playful conversation to spark my creativity!

ChatGPT：

Absolutely! Let's get creative! Here are the 10 questions I'll ask to guide your storytelling:

What was the most surprising or unexpected thing that ever happened to you?

What’s a hobby, job, or skill you’ve always wanted to master, but never had the time or opportunity to pursue?

Imagine a place where two completely different worlds collide. What would those worlds look like, and how would they interact?

Have you ever had a conversation that left a lasting impression on you? What was it about?

What’s the funniest or strangest coincidence you’ve ever experienced?

Is there a time in your life when you felt completely out of your element? What was that experience like?

What’s the most peculiar or mysterious place you’ve ever been to?

Think of an object you own that has sentimental value. How could that object be magical in a story?

Have you ever had a vivid dream that stuck with you long after you woke up? What happened in it?

If you could speak to your younger self, what would you say? How might that conversation spark a story?

Ready? Let’s dive in!

What was the most surprising or unexpected thing that ever happened to you?

继续这个对话：https://chatgpt.com/share/73d30e70-a2cd-411a-9a41-a1dc40b85c4c

本能是说，“哦，这个东西就是帮我们写作的。”但我也可以促使它问我问题。它可以通过从我身上拉出观点和见解来让我思考。” —— Stew Fortier, 作家和创始人

以下是五位专业作家，他们使用ChatGPT不是为他们写作，而是作为一个工具来延伸自己的创造力。

编辑反馈

写作本质上是孤独的，这种孤独也有其不利之处：你会被自己的观点困扰，很难客观地看待自己的工作。这就是为什么作家需要编辑——来提供新鲜的观点，指出哪些地方做得好，哪些需要改进。

然而，编辑并不总是可用的，即使他们可用，他们也只看到最终稿件。这就是 ChatGPT 可以帮助在写作过程的每个阶段提供即时反馈和指导的地方。

电影和电视剧编剧大卫·科努使用ChatGPT作为全天候的写作团队，帮助他发展故事创意并解决叙事问题。以下是他如何使用ChatGPT来获得对剧本和故事板的反馈：

"I use ChatGPT as a story collaborator and story evaluator-not a story generator.

I tell my fellow writers, if you try to have it write for you, you lose something in yourself. It’s like cheating on a robot’s homework to get an A+. I’d rather I did my own homework.

I never use it to say, “Rewrite this scene for me.” Writers need to ask themselves, “How can you use this in a way that feels good, that makes you feel like it’s still you and still your voice?” As long as you’re the creative engine behind it, this is a great tool to utilize.

I was very clear about how I wanted to use AI. I set boundaries the way one would in a relationship. I said, this is acceptable; this is unacceptable. I put up a creative firewall to say, “Do not write this for me. I’m the writer. You are not the writer.”

I use ChatGPT all day, every day. I think of it like a writers’ room. Right now I’m working on adapting a Stephen King novel. I’ll say, “Here’s my beat sheet. I feel like this is not dramatic enough. Thoughts?” It offers ideas and we have a back-and-forth to talk out the challenges as one would in a writers’ room.

Sometimes I ask it to give me feedback using storytelling principles I’ve developed. Or, I ask it to play the role of a veteran screenwriter. I say, “All right, pretend you’re such-and-such famous writer or famous director. What are your notes?”

I’m always in the driver’s seat. It’s this fantastic sounding board that’s faster, smarter, and better than anything else I could imagine.”

David Cornue

查找单词

要写得好，你需要找到正确的词语。一个几乎正确的词与一个准确表达意思的词之间有明显的区别。福楼拜称之为“le mot juste”（准确的词）。他的建议是：“永远不要妥协于近似之词。”

ChatGPT实现了字典无法做到的事情：它考虑单词出现的句子，提供详细和相关的建议，帮助作者用绝对清晰的方式表达他们的想法。

这是前纽约时报专栏作家法哈德·曼朱利如何使用ChatGPT进行“单词搜索”的方法:

“ChatGPT has become part of my workflow. Before I start writing, I sometimes have a conversation with it about the ideas I’m thinking of. It feels like brainstorming—like thinking an idea through, or thinking out loud.

I’ve also experimented with using it as my first reader. After I write a few paragraphs, I show it to ChatGPT and ask it for general criticism. Sometimes it's pretty good. It will suggest potential counterarguments, or lead me to ideas I hadn’t thought of. It’s not the same as talking to an editor, but it’s still great to have something to bounce my thoughts off.

My top use is what I wrote about in my New York Times article(opens in a new window), which is wordfinding. I'm constantly trying to come up with a clever way of saying something; I guess that's what writing is.

Before ChatGPT, I’d look at dictionaries and thesauruses and go on wild-goose Google searches for the perfect word.

ChatGPT has replaced all of those for me. It’s also really helpful with analogies, metaphors and idioms. Often, I will think of half of an analogy and not be able to finish it in just the right way. Now, if I want some interesting comparison but don't know exactly the words to use, I ask it for help, and after a little back and forth it helps me find the thought I’d been searching for. I've never used any other tool that can help with that.”

Farhad Manjoo

逆向面试

大多数人认为ChatGPT是一个问答机器：提问，得到答案。但是作者和创始人Stew Fortier发现，当你是回答问题的人时，ChatGPT最有用。他称之为“反向面试”——一种技术，通过ChatGPT引导用户提出一系列深入的问题，以揭示见解并促使他们更清晰地表达自己的想法。

以下是 Stew 如何利用 ChatGPT 解锁他的创造力：“我把它看作是一个创意合作者。问题应该是，“我如何利用人工智能更创造性？”

"I think of it as a creative collaborator. The question should be, "How can I use AI to be more creative?"

One paradigm I think is underdiscussed is that you can actually prompt these tools to ask you questions, to get you thinking, to prompt you to start writing. The instinct is to say, “Oh, this thing just writes for us.” But it can also ask me questions. It can also get me thinking and shape my ideas—and that’s where great writing really starts.

What if instead of you becoming a prompt engineer, you see what it can prompt out of you? The AI can be a non-judgmental collaborator that helps pull out these great, unique insights from you.

I view it as an always-on editor that can help writers do better work—not replace the work they're doing. They can use it for brainstorming, research, doing the non-writing part of the writing process using the AI.

It’s like if you were in The Onion’s writer’s room. Six of you working together are going to be funnier together than you would be solo. There's a symbiosis that can exist.

When I'm honest with myself, I actually wouldn't ever want to give up the act of writing. Writing is like working out or meditating. It's one of those activities you value intrinsically. Even if the AI could write perfect prose, I’d still want to write because writing itself is a valuable act.

Writing is hard. There are so many things that are legit hard about it that make people give up. You haven't had your coffee yet, you're short on ideas, you can't track down a statistic or fact you need for a story… If AI can help with those things, then you as a writer are more likely to show up and do the work.”

Stew Fortier

喜剧写作

优秀的喜剧可能看起来轻松自如，但编写笑话实际上需要大量的研究。幽默依赖于背景，正如喜剧作家萨拉·罗斯·西斯金所解释的，“敲敲笑话”之所以行不通，是因为它们被脱离了背景。萨拉利用ChatGPT来研究笑话结构，发现了常见的主题和夸张的观察，这样她就可以专注于有趣的创造性部分：编写笑点。

以下是Sarah如何使用ChatGPT搜集素材的方法：“我用ChatGPT来写喜剧。它不会给我一个成品笑话，但它会开始对话。我会说，“我需要你扮演摩西。作为摩西，听听一个名叫Megan的现代社交媒体经理的抱怨，并尽力安慰她，尽管你的生活明显更艰难。”我可以和任何人对话。我觉得我身边有这个人在。”

"I use ChatGPT for comedy. It's not going to give me a finished joke, but it's going to start the conversation. I'll be like, "I need you to embody Moses. And as Moses, hear the complaints of a girl named Megan who's a present-day social media manager and try to console her, despite your objectively more difficult life." I can have a conversation with anyone. I feel like I have the person there with me.

I find it useful when I’m writing the setup for a joke. I was writing a parody of Shark Tank and I asked, “What are the kinds of things people say on Shark Tank?”

With a parody, it's not one-to-one accuracy. You're taking things that are different and exaggerating them. So I'm looking for not just what are common things such as, “I’m looking for investment,” but what are uniquely Shark Tank things I can exaggerate? Such as, “Sharks, has this ever happened to you?”

I was writing a roast speech for a guy at a coding conference. I'm not a coder, so I asked ChatGPT to delve into the inside jokes of coding communities. I asked, “What are stereotypes about the 50-year-old programmer on your team?” ChatGPT responded with, among other suggestions: “They will make you listen to endless stories.” That reminded me how older people always talk about meeting celebrities before they were famous. I then prompted ChatGPT for some tech celebrities who might fit the bill and, of its list, Steve Wozniak felt like the funniest pick. In the end the joke was about how senior developers will endlessly regale their younger colleagues about that time they almost met Steve Wozniak at a party in 1998. I chose the direction, but ChatGPT helped me fill in the details.

What’s amazing to me is I do not have writer’s block anymore—like truly. I think writer’s block is the feeling of solipsism and it is the feeling of being totally alone. And I don’t feel alone anymore because of this tool.”

Sarah Rose Siskind

观看Sarah演示她编写笑话的过程

研究和世界构建

研究是作家进入新世界的门户。作家经常被建议“写自己所知”，但正如汤姆·沃尔夫所说，仅仅依靠第一手经验可能会限制他们的创造力。为了真实地表现以前从未见过的人和地方 - 无论是真实的还是虚构的，过去的或未来的 - 作家必须通过研究和报道扩展他们的知识。

然而，研究过程通常是痛苦缓慢的，作者们要在大量资料中查找难以捉摸的事实。小说家和Substack作家埃尔·格里芬（Elle Griffin）解释了ChatGPT如何加速这一过程并激发她的想象力，提供即时答案，激发意想不到的联系和发现。

"ChatGPT has completely revolutionized my writing.

By far the most difficult part of writing is researching. Before ChatGPT, I’d use Google to find studies, go down Wikipedia rabbit holes and look up all the footnotes, and read dozens of books from Amazon. I spent way too much time weeding through hundreds of webpages and paying for dozens of books just to read a few chapters from each one.

Now I just ask ChatGPT something like: “What research studies have been conducted about more and less emotive cultures?” and get right to the research I need. I always ask ChatCPT to include links to sources so I can make sure the information is accurate.

I also use ChatGPT to brainstorm my novel. When I wanted to imagine how humans might evolve in one million years, I asked if there’s evidence that humans are still evolving. ChatGPT led me to a study showing that waterfaring people, who hold their breath for long periods while diving, develop enlarged spleens. When researching technological systems, it led me to a study about transmitting data through water. These inspired two chapters of my utopian novel!

None of this querying in any way detracts from my own voice. It just helps me reach my own theses more quickly because I’m led to more relevant source materials. ChatGPT isn’t doing my writing or thinking for me. It’s just giving me better access to information so I can spend more time being creative and less time hunting for information. And none of this detracts from the deep reading and research I love to do. I have now read several incredible books that were very on-target with my interests thanks to ChatGPT finding the works most pertinent to my work.

I can't even begin to explain how much better this is than searching through page after page on Google, weeding through SEO-optimized lists written by bloggers and brands.”