Ah, the joy of being a ghostwriter. You spend months carrying a book to term, giving it the very best prenatal care you can. You try to take care of yourself so that your baby will turn out to be robust and healthy. Eventually, you laboriously give birth to that beautiful baby...only to have it snatched out of your hands and taken to live with someone else!
Naw, that's definitely not how I really see it. If I did, I certainly wouldn't continue doing it! Both from the client's view and mine, it makes perfect sense. She has a great idea for a book, but neither the time nor the inclination to do all the writing herself. So she contracts--for a respectable fee--the services of someone who writes for a living, and that individual does the heavy lifting. When the book is published and is successful, the client gets the credit. It's a perfectly equitable arrangement.
Of course, the downside for the ghostwriter is that, since you're writing as someone else (and have signed a confidentiality agreement), you can't point to the finished product and say, "That's my work." So if you want to work again, you'd better have plenty of good writing samples or articles published in your own name. Since you're a ghost, those samples are, in fact, the only proof that you can, in fact, write professionally!
Cheers,
William
Copyright 2012 by William K.
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