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The Concept Of Ghostwriting

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Louise Meyers
The Concept Of Ghostwriting

You may have heard the term ‘ghostwriting’ often. Now, is the time to learn more about this. In this blog, we will discuss what is ghostwriting and why do people prefer it and how it lets writers make money. There may have a lot speculations about this so shall we begin?

What Is It?

Well, you might not be completely blank about it. When you heard the name it suggests a lot off course. It doesn’t mean people are hiring ghosts to write for them. It only suggests that writers are not getting the work published under their name. It is like they won’t get the credits for it, they write for someone else. Ghostwriting is like selling your work a0nd selling the right to own or claim it as yours.

If you are thinking about celebrity memoirs, well it is just the tip of the iceberg. Ghostwriting is widespread and it is everywhere. From books to blogs everything is written by the ghostwriters all over the world. Not all of them but a greater chunk is…

Basically a ghostwriter lets someone else get the credit for their work and they get paid in return, no credit at all whatsoever. For instance, if you have ghostwritten a book for someone, it will be published with their name as the author.

Who pays for the work also owns the copyrights meaning they can republish the work and can also modify it as they see appropriate in any way. You won’t have any say in it once you are done writing and paid.

Why People Hire Ghostwriters?

This is a good question and arouses several others too. Why would someone hire another person to write for them and not give them credit for it? Are they themselves too lazy to write? We will answer all of these but first, let just get this in our head that ghostwriting is not something new. It has been here for centuries in different forms.

Back to why… there can be several reasons for hiring a ghostwriter, maybe their business has expanded so much and now it is impossible to write all the material themselves. Maybe they have an exciting story to tell but are not really good at writing. Maybe they want to share their experiences with the world but don’t enjoy writing and so on. Custom book publishing in Encinitas is so common now and guess what? There are writing agencies who hire ghostwriters for this purpose.

The Demand

As we all know how valuable the content has become in a digital age. It also makes demands high for ghostwriters. It is growing, it is getting popular and all of this is working in the favor of writers. They are being paid handsomely and even the courses for ghostwriting are being offered at schools now.

This is getting bigger with time and ghostwriters are getting paid exceptionally well. Money is, if not the biggest then definitely one of the big reasons writers are lured into writing for someone else. It usually pays more than regular freelance work.

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