Why Hire a Ghostwriter?

How often have you had a story you burned to tell, but could not find the words that would make it sing? Or, what about that book you have been planning to write that would help you sell yourself to your customers? Is there something that happened in your life that needs to be told, but simply keeping your life together from one day to the next has left you with no time to assemble and sort out the information? Perhaps it is the story of your life, your memoirs that you wish to record. Writing a book takes time and skill. At The Best Word we carefully pull all the sources of information together to make the book you want.

Everyone's life is a story worth telling, but few people have the time or energy to write their memoirs. It takes patience and time to sift through all our memories and records of past events to put them into a form that would be compelling to our readers. And it is not always easy to find a writer who has the skill to do this for you, while honoring your wishes in terms of what you will have said and what you will not. At the Best Word, you are the priority and your story will be treated gently and with respect. Writing your book is our priority.

Ghost writers have to be good writers. This involves many hours of sitting in front of a computer with notebooks and reference books at hand. The good writer does this every day. He is compelled to do it. For him, a day is wasted if he has not produced his word quota. And when he has written it, he goes through it again, and again, to make sure that every word is the right word, and that they are all in the right places. This sort of dedication is not for everyone. But at The Best Word, your story is our specialty. We also edit and prepare manuscripts for publication. Some people would call this being a book doctor. It is usually called Substantive Editing.

What is a Ghostwriter?

What is a ghostwriter? The good ghostwriter writes your stories, while working to stay true to your ideas and the ways you want to express them. He or sh will interview you many times during the writing process. if it is a story about your life, or someone who was close to you, he may use diaries and letters that you are willing to share and he may interview other people who were connected with your story, or who are specialists in their fields and who can contribute their knowledge to your story.

In truth, the good ghostwriter will work as a collaboratgor with you, his client, gathering and processing the information, until it is a coherent and intersting story. Then he writes it, sharing each draft with you, so that you can tell him what you like and want more of, and what you believe should be removed. it is a lengthy process, and the good ghostwriter takes great care all the way through, so that you will have the book you wanted when you hired him. The good ghostwriter may produce three, four or even five drafts of your manuscript, each time making it more intersting and compelling for your readers.

Once the contr4act has been fulfilled on both sides, the manuscript is entirel yours, and yours is the only name that will appear on it, unless you choose to include his name as co-author, or within the dedication. That decision is entirely yours to make.

How to Choose a Ghostwriter

What should you look for in a ghostwriter? Ghostwriters are individuals. Some of them are strictly business. Their thought processes tend to run along the lines of; I will do this much work for this much cash, and if you do notlike the results, you'll have to pay extra or findsomebody else to write your book the way you want. This can be frustrating, especially when you have already paid thousands of dollars, and the results are not what you wanted.

First of all, you want a ghostwriter who will work with you, making it his or her priority to give you the book you want.

Second, your ghostwriter will be privy to family stories you most likely have never told anyone but your closest friends and relatives, so this person must be someone who you are comfortable talking to, and confident that he or she will treat your story with respect.

Third, you want to see not only examples of his work, yoiu want to see a sample of what he will do with your story, before you sign a contract with him. Even if the ghostwriter does not have his name on anyh published works, he can show you excerpts and examples of pieces he has written, so that you have some idea of rthe quality of his work, before he begins to write your story.

The good ghostwriter will put countless hours of his time into your manuscript, researching the data and listening not only to what you have to say, but how you say it, so that he can use the sorts of words and phrases you use, in order to make the story sound as though you are telling it.

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