Archive for July 2025
1 Big Ghostwriting Secret: Don’t Use One
As a writer, it’s easy for me to see that more people need a writer’s help than they want to admit. I remember how at networking meetings people would come up with a rhyming tagline and thought they could write. They didn’t realize that it takes so much more to really write. You need passion,…
Read More3 Steps Within the Ghostwriter’s Fine Process
The following illustrates the ghostwriter’s process and expertise as a storyteller. A client recently sent to his younger brothers the most recent draft of what he wanted to be the first chapter of his memoir I’m ghostwriting. It would start at the end of the story. Both of them praised the opening story, then the…
Read More1 Great Ghostwriter and Niching Down
When I started my freelance writing career in 2005, I knew nothing of niching down. Instead, I tried to write all things for all people. My rationale was that I needed work and I had transferable skills that could be applied to a large variety of writings: websites, personal introductions/elevator pitches/30-second commercials, crisis communications, speeches,…
Read MoreHow 1 Ethical Ghostwriter Collaborates
In my newspaper journalism days, I learned that reporters must collaborate and cannot do their jobs in a vacuum. There was a great deal of collaboration throughout the process: I would talk to somebody who had a story idea, I would consult an editor to get permission to work on it (or the editor would…
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