lundi 29 juin 2015

By Jordan Schmidt


Ghostwriting has been one of the most profitable and common jobs for young writers ever since before. Ghostwriters would offer their writing services to authors as editors and proofreaders. They would usually offer their ghostwriting services for novels and memoirs to authors who need someone to edit their work and to also do the bulk of the writing jobs.

Before going to the services, one has to first know what exactly is a ghost writer and what do they do. Basically, they are writers hired by another writer or an author to do some writing work for him. This is done in order for the author to save more time and to not put so much effort into going to the details of his work of art or publication.

Of course the first task that one of these writers would be doing would obviously be editing. One who edits the work of an author is known as a ghost writer because although he is the one who creates the final draft, his name is not given credit. Usually the authors would provide the first draft while his team of writers would be editing and proofreading the draft.

Now other than that, sometimes the authors would push pretty much all of the work to the ghostwriters. In other words, the author would most likely just come up with an outline and a story flow then the ghostwriters would be putting it into words. Most authors who are working on several projects all at the same time would do this in order to save up on precious time.

Now next will be the memoirs which entails a lot more work than working on a single novel. Now usually, ghostwriters are tasked to write, edit, and proofread the work that was given to them. Now for memoirs on the other hand, the ghostwriters not only must do the editing but they must also do the research that needs to be done for this type of publication.

Now a memoir is research intensive because memoirs are pretty much like autobiographies that would be written from a first person point of view. In this case, the writer has to think and act like the person who is living in the text. It is because of this that ghostwriters have to do heavy research on the person that they are writing about.

Memoir writers will most likely be the ones to write and clean up the entire piece of work. What the author would usually do would be to provide a draft as well as the flow of the piece and let his team of ghostwriters go ahead and work. From here, the ghostwriters will also do all the editing, cleaning up, and also all the proofreading.

Now most people would be asking their selves right now about how ghostwriters are compensated. Well, they will actually be given a standard fee and will also be given some commissions based on the book sales. Of course since they are ghostwriters, their names will not be credited and they will most likely not get any recognition.




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