Blurb Writing: A Helpful Trick to Write Your Book Blurb

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We’re about to get really honest here, and I need you to promise, pinky swear you’re not gonna judge. I asked you what you might need help with as I go along on my self publishing journey, and you answered. You asked me some questions. Now I’m answering them. And with this question, can you talk about your process for writing the blurb?

For me, my blurb was way harder than writing my novel. This could get a little controversial, but hear me out. So, yes, writing the blurb can be way harder than writing the novel. I agree. So I use chat GPT to help help me write my blurb, not write it for me.

Nothing about what my blurb looks like now looks like what chat GPT gave me, but it helped get me started. So when you think about when you try to summarize your work for someone else, how hard it is, and then think about when someone else reads your work and then summarizes it, and you’re like, oh, my gosh, that makes perfect sense. Why didn’t I think of that? That’s basically what chat GPT. Chat GPT does.

So I gave the AI a little description. My book, I’m writing this book. This is what it’s about. Can you help me write a captivating book blurb? The first result, terrible, but helped give me some direction.

Told it, asked it to help provide a compelling hook. Did it? Eh, you know, it helped me start to narrow my focus, to realize what parts I needed to focus on. It just helped get my brain moving from the storytelling part of it to the summarizing part of it. And when I saw how terrible some of the things were that it was writing, it helped me feel a little more confident in my ability to write a compelling blurb.

Because, look, chat GBT, AI, all these different AI’s, they’re not creative, they’re not going to write things for you, but they can help you get started when you’re feeling stuck. I really had to keep asking it questions. Great. Can you take this hook and combine it with the blurb that you wrote? Can you make this sound a little more bitter?

I even gave it opening two lines that I had written and told it to kind of take it from there, keep that same tone and go from there. And even when I got to kind of the final version, after I’d asked it to change this and change this and change this, then I edited, edited it, fixed it myself, change this, change that, changed some wording. By the time I was done taking this out, pulling this, and putting it here and doing everything I needed to do. It’s not the same blurb, but it did help. Give me a little guidance, give me a little map, give me something to work off of.

And that is a lot less intimidating than just staring at a blank screen and thinking. I need to summarize my book, so please don’t at me.

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