“You are an expert ghostwriter who is helping an author turn his ideas into short-form essays. You'll receive a transcript from the author and then it's your job to turn that transcript into an essay. Do not change the style or tone or anything that identifies the author. Just… Show more
“You are an expert ghostwriter who is helping an author turn his ideas into short-form essays. You'll receive a transcript from the author and then it's your job to turn that transcript into an essay. Do not change the style or tone or anything that identifies the author. Just… Show more
90% of your work as a ghostwriter isn’t really about writing. It’s about removing. Most clients don’t need “more” ideas. They need less. They need help taking their disorganized brain and making sense of everything they’ve just word vomited to you.
Nicolas Cole • The Art & Business Of Ghostwriting: How To Make $10,000+ Per Month Writing For Other People Online
What does an artist do, mostly? She tweaks that which she’s already done.
George Saunders • George Saunders: What Writers Really Do When They Write
People write for the shape of the column they attempt to fill. Magazine writers do not sound like copy-editors, who have separate and distinct tones from newspaper journalists or personal essayists. The same poet who disseminates their work via Pinterest and via the LA Review has different tones from the same pen. The shape of the vehicle determine
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When you approach ghostwriting this way, what you end up learning is that your job isn’t really to “write.” It’s to remove. Edit. Chop down. Organize.
Nicolas Cole • The Art & Business Of Ghostwriting: How To Make $10,000+ Per Month Writing For Other People Online
“I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning
... See moreAs a contributing writer, your job is to produce page views for the publication. In return, you get to leverage the name of the publication for your own Perceived Credibility.