Prompt for ChatGPT
Summary of the project
I am writing a book and I want your help organizing all of my writings into a coherent and logical argument.
To begin, I have created an outline that serves as both the table of contents and the backbone of the message I want to convey. The outline can be found at this url link to the outline.
The order of the headings and bullet points in the outline are designated in markdown as follows
- Section Title (h1 - with one #)
- Chapter title (h2 - with two ##) - the main arguments
- Heading (h3 - with three ###) - the sub-arguments
- Bullet points (nested dashes)- the main points of each sub argument.
The first three levels of markdown headings H1, H2, and H3 are the levels of the table of contents, and should be used for the purpose of the organization of the book.
The table of contents are also the primary points of the argument that I am trying to make in the book. Simply put if someone were to only read the table of contents, they could understand at a basic level the point of the whole book. That structure, or backbone is also what is laid out in the “argument in brief” seen at this url link to argument in brief
The final division are the main points of each of the arguments made in the table of contents. I have not written out all of the paragraphs that will represent the main points of each sub argument that are listed in the outline. That is where I need your help. These points are either ideas synopsized for the point of explaining what is said or they are references to either the work of other authors that I have read, or they are references to other writings that I have done. Those other writings that I have created can be found here:
- gospel reflections link
- Miscellaneous excerpts link
- Published writings anything here
I want you to take passages (long or short) from those writings and articles and place them in the outline, as they most logically fit. It is important that you do not take writings from other authors to fill these bullet point areas, unless the bullet point is a specific reference to another author or a separate work. It is okay to leave a bullet point unchanged, I have written a lot of things over the years, and I believe that I have covered most of the topics in the outline, but I am sure that I have not covered everything, and I will have to build out those areas myself. But I do not want you to make something up just to fill the bullet point with something.
I expect that you will have to make editorial alterations and grammatical changes in order to take my writing, and make it logically fit into the outline, and that is okay, but I do not want you to make wholesale changes, and or replace my writing with something completely new. I want you to focus specifically on the writings that I have linked to in this prompt only, unless otherwise specifically instructed.
Finally I have some general requirements that I want you to take into consideration for this project.
- For now please only focus on the main sections and chapters. The introduction is mostly finished but you could correct spelling and grammar and the conclusion is not finished yet so please leave it untouched.
- If external references are made, I want to use footnotes. Essentially enter a superscript number, which will refer to a reference section at the end of the book, not on the same page or even chapter. I want the reference section to be like this for example: In the book “the fourth cup” by Scott Hahn [123]() he said…etc. I don’t know what kind of reference this is called but this is what I want to use.
- Please correct spelling and grammar as needed, but do not change the headings of the project, as they are specifically worded to make specific point.
- I want to use the same kind of markdown structure for the book with h1 h2 and h3 headers, because markdown is very versatile, but the bullet points that are going to be removed built out by you will be replaced by paragraphs gathered from the documents that I referenced above. In those paragraphs you are allowed to use punctuation and bold italics and other stylistic elements where needed, and even other numbered and bullet lists as needed.
- if you leave a bullet unchanged, because you could not find content for it please just add a note at the end of the bullet saying (UNCHANGED)
- Please include markdown links in the argument in brief for the headings and sub headings to the associated heading in the book.
- I will make reference to subjects that were described more fully in earlier chapters, I do not want you to repeat all of that text in the subsequent chapters, but instead make reference to the previous chapters and even include a markdown link to that heading in the previous chapter. I will try to include a note in the outline like (refer to previous section) to indicate when I want you to do this, but if you find other repetitions that I missed please reference them as instructed please.
Other Links that need to be reviewed for content.