Monday, July 6, 2015

All About Ghostwriting Services For Novels And Memoirs

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.

Now before anything else it is very important to first know exactly what these people do. Now in a nutshell, ghostwriters are hired writers that would not be heard and seen would be the ones to handle the writing jobs of authors. This is done so that the authors will not spend too much time on the details and can shorten the work time.

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.

Aside from doing the edits, they may also be paid to actually do most of the work in the novel. When one would say most of the work, he actually means that the ghostwriter will actually write the entire novel. The flow, outline, and story plot will just come from the author and the ghostwriter has to turn everything into words and make it attractive to the readers.

Now when it comes to memoirs on the other hand, a typical ghostwriter will definitely have more work that what a ghostwriter of a novel has. Not only are writers of memoirs tasked to edit and proofread, but they are also tasked to do some research as well. They will be working directly with the author and the author will be giving them the commands.

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.

Ghostwriters for memoirs will also be the ones to clean up the work once the research is done. Now the author would usually just give the writer a draft or sometimes just even an outline for the flow of the book. From there, it will be the ghostwriters who will be creating the style and the wording for the entire text.

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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