Direct answer
Give ChatGPT the book’s title, premise, audience, target length, ending direction, and red lines. Ask it to create one BookWriter project, then review and save a chapter-by-chapter blueprint before writing prose.
Step by step
The reliable workflow
- 1
State the core direction
Provide the premise, genre, audience, target length, ending direction, and non-negotiable boundaries.
- 2
Create once
Ask ChatGPT to create one BookWriter project and retain the returned project reference.
- 3
Review the blueprint
Check chapter purpose, required beats, timeline, point of view, ending contract, and approximate target words.
- 4
Save the voice contract
Confirm point of view, tense, narrative distance, rhythm, diction, dialogue rules, and hard avoids.
A strong starting prompt
“Start a BookWriter project titled The Glass Orchard, an 82,000-word literary mystery for adult readers. The ending should resolve the disappearance without redeeming the antagonist. Avoid graphic violence.”
What can change later
Blueprints and voice contracts are versioned. You can refine them deliberately, but a current chapter should always use the latest approved packet.
Avoid duplicate projects
If project creation times out, ask ChatGPT to list your books before retrying. The same idempotency key should be reused for a true retry.
Frequently asked
Must the whole outline be perfect?
No. It must be coherent enough to guide the next chapter and explicit enough that later changes can be reviewed.
Keep going
Continue the connected writing workflow.
Canonical URL: https://www.bookwriter.vip/mcp/guide/start-a-book · Updated July 15, 2026