A ghost writer is a person who writes stories, books, articles, blog post, speeches, email, etc., but is not credited for his work.
In simple words, a ghost writer writes a post but his name will not display as the author’s name. Generally, the credit goes to the person who hired that ghost writer.
Even though, the ghost writer writes half of a book, his name will not be credited as a co-author. The ghost-writer does not have any rights to claim that it is his work. There will be a confidential clause in the contract between the ghost writer and the person who hires. Most of the time, the clause states that the ghost writer does not have any rights to publicly share that is his post. Sometimes the smart ghost writer learns how to reap the growing success of their owners by incorporating success measurement in their contract. So, if you are content bring success to your owners or a heavy trafficking to their blogs, then the smart ghost writers can get some extra remuneration for their success but will not be honoured publicly.
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But, it does not mean ghost writer will get a low remuneration. Because of this uncredited work, ghost writer can charge higher than the usual credited writers.
There are various types of ghost writers such as Fiction (Publishers use ghost writer to increase the number of books published each year) , Non-fiction( In this area, ghost writers are widely used for writing autobiographies of celebrities), Religious (Here, the ghost writer are used to write circular to the churches in ancient Roman churches), Art (The ghost writers are used here to write musical notes and to paint), Website (In this field, the ghost writers are used in large numbers, writing contents for the blogs, maintaining celebrities social media account such as Facebook and Twitter), Academics (In Academics, ghost writers will write essays, thesis, solutions for math and physics problems), Medicine (In this field, pharmaceutical companies pay ghost writers to write medicinal papers and pay other physicians or scientists to attach their names to these papers before they publish this paper), etc.
Qualities required in a Ghost Writer
A ghost writer needs a number of qualities to be a successful ghost writer. Writing for someone else is hardest skill, probably the ghost writer should have it. Another important quality that the ghost writer adapt to other writing skills.
Being a ghost writer is an advantage for a freelance content writer Delhi. The next reason that you want to be a ghost writer is once you have completed your work, that’s it. You will get paid for it. You need not promote that book or article which you have written. Another reason to be a ghost writer is, that the client will give you an overall idea and overview of what the book or article requires. So you need not to bother about the overall idea of what you need to write. Also you can improve your writing skill, as someone is reviewing and paying for your article.
But it’s not always the same case. Sometimes the owner for which you are writing gives an idea and the ghost writer has to adapt that idea and put that in words. In some cases, the owner pays you to listen to them or take their notes and develop that into content. In other cases, they pay you to come up with your ideas yourself, create the draft and develop the content. Their only work is to approve that article.
Though ghost writer earns a good remuneration still it is not fair that all the credits goes to someone else. But still ghost writer is a great freelancing work especially for those who are looking to get paid for their work and not much concerned about the credit part.
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