![]() Requests for school help should be posted in r/homeworkhelp, including posts about school essays or citations. Requests for writing partners may also only be posted in the critique thread. Samples of writing, whether for critique, self-promotion, or general sharing, may only be posted in the weekly self-promotion and critique thread. The moderators do reserve the right to remove posts/comments that are deemed harmful without warning and ban users depending on the severity of the infraction. Please keep these guidelines in mind for all of your posts and comments. Here's a general synopsis and explanation of /r/writing's community rules. Thank you! Before posting, check out: FAQ Our Wiki Related subreddits Want to do an AMA? Please message the mods to verify yourself before posting. Sunday: Writing Tools, Software, and Hardware Upcoming AMA posts ![]() We talk about important matters for writers, news affecting writers, and the finer aspects of the writing craft. Because writers deserve to get paid.Welcome to the home for writers. Unless you enjoy working for slave wages when someone else gets the credit, price your projects with these challenges in mind. If you’re a writer pricing a project and you haven’t accounted for these challenges, you’re going to be doing a lot more work than you expected. If you want a quality job under those conditions, you’re going to have to pay for it.Īnd that’s why ghost writing is (often) so expensive.Ī final piece of advice. Intellectual work, time, and expertise have a price. If you do the job, you need to manage those challenges.īut they are challenges. ![]() All those experiences and requirements are part of the job of ghost writing. I know, this sounds like a bunch of complaints. The writer needs to slot ghost writing in among other work and sometimes shift other projects out of the way when the author has an immediate concern. That wreaks havoc with writers’ schedules. Writers need to be available when when the author is available. Authors tend to do book tasks on their own schedules - at odd hours, on weekends, or sometimes, with gaps of availability that go on for weeks or months.Sure, writers can potentially share in advances or royalties, but those are uncertain forms of compensation for the actual work put in. Writers have only one sure way: getting paid directly. Authors have lots of ways to make money from books, from public speaking to consulting to lead generation.So it’s never a straightforward drafting process from beginning to end. They remember things they forgot on the first go-round. They ask their spouses to review things and then come back and suggest surprising shifts in emphasis or language. Authors change their minds partway through the project.If you don’t think that’s work, you probably haven’t wasted a bunch of afternoons on it, as so many writers have. Writers need to track down sources and add links and footnotes to verify them.As the writer, you must take on the job of verifying names, facts, dates, and events to make sure the text isn’t full of inaccuracies. Usually not on purpose, but they get facts wrong and misremember things. (For example, in a piece I’m working on now, the author has an aversion to giving advice with the word “you,” or referring to employees as “staff,” so I’ve had to figure out ways to describe their points that don’t fit my usual style.) This is the prose version of acting: taking on someone else’s persona. The writer needs to understand and take on the author’s voice. ![]()
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