About Ghostwriters . . .
BLOG SESSION
January 22nd, 2018
Good Evening Writers, Authors, Poets, Literary Lovers, Blog Readers, Followers & Visitors ~ You are in for a treat!
Our Blog Session scheduled for this evening is being interrupted to bring you information about Ghostwriters in response to a request received from a Reader of our last Blog Session. In our last Session, we briefly discussed pen names and ghostwriters when talking about our Book Writing Diary.
Just as an overview for those of you who may have missed our Blog Session, A ghostwriter is hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches or other texts that are officially credited to another person as the Author. Celebrities, executives, participants in timely news stories, and political leaders often hire ghostwriters to draft or edit autobiographies, memoirs, magazine articles, or other written material. In music, ghostwriters are often used to write songs, lyrics and instrumental pieces. Screenplay Authors can also use ghostwriters to either edit or rewrite their scripts to improve them.
Just so you know . . .
Author Tom Clancy at a Book Signing
The popular demand for Tom Clancy's action novels exceeded his ability to write new books. As a result, his publisher hired ghostwriters to write novels in the Clancy style.
More about Ghostwriters . . .
Ghostwriters are writers for hire who take money but none of the credit for the work produced. The original writer, or author, is hiring the ghost as a freelance writer to produce copy writer work for a fee. The author takes all the credit for all of the original work produced, including all of the original writing produced by the ghostwriter. The ghost, who is usually paid in advance of completing the job, gets the money as a “work for hire” job and assumes none of the credit for the ghostwriting work.
What are the reasons to Hire a GhostWriter?
This may sound odd, but it is a common practice. When someone wants to create new copy for a website, a ghostwriter may be hired to rewrite it, and there are many similar jobs such as writing ad or business copy, or supplying new or rewritten material for personal or professional use. The ghost is hired primarily as a professional freelance writer, in order to produce high quality writing copy so that the writing reads professionally.
Ghostwriters are also hired to write books for people. In such cases, the author of the book is the person who hires the ghostwriter, and not the ghost, unless the book author wants to share some of the credit with the ghost. In this case, the ghost may be listed as a coauthor or as the “editor” of the book, and generally this is listed somewhere in the acknowledgments page.
How to Become a GhostWriter
However you slice it, the ghost writing business can be quite lucrative. In order to become a well paid ghost, you should have plenty of experience as a freelance writer, perhaps including some books published under your own name or years of experience writing website and other types of copy for businesses. You should be experienced as a freelance writer who has been paid regularly for your services, and then you may take on the career of becoming a paid professional freelance ghostwriter. There is always room in the writing profession for another freelance writer. Freelance writing can be a very lucrative career, once you know how to handle the ins and outs of the business. And, once you learn how to deal with your clients as a ghost writer should.
Find out more about Ghostwriters and Freelance Writing by researching further.
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