The Magic of Being a Ghostwriter
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Writing is easy. Querying for the placement of my prose, not so much.
My hard drive is happy with two manuscripts, a couple dozen children’s stories, a handful of chapter books (starring more than one character) and more blog posts than I could count, even across a long afternoon.
I love writing. I can scrawl or scroll from rooster crowing to crickets chirping. Writer’s block for me is just an urban myth whose truth I hope to never discover.
What is difficult for me is making one foot chase the other in pursuit of publication. I am rewarded by the written word and in constant awe of all it can do. When I finish building a world, telling a story, or designing an argument so acute with clarity it cannot be argued, it is simply instinct for me to dip my quill into the quiet and set my fingers in motion again.
Query letters and agent meetings will never fan my excitement so much as a well told story spun from the loom of my imagination. Even if I am only taking the ideas of another and shaping them into something remarkable, or taking their simple text and allowing it to sing, the joy is in the creation, not in the maturation.
This is the magic of being a ghostwriter.
Agents are great at submitting work to publishers. I am great at writing. When I am not writing, I long for the pen. By making my living as a ghostwriter, I am able to do what I love with few pauses, while earning a living for myself and my family.
The art of writing isn’t the same as the art of selling. By dividing the task in two, a writer is able to divorce their thought from the inevitable journey awaiting them so that they may concentrate on the worlds (and characters who populate them) that are waiting to be born.
A ghostwriter is even one more step removed. Like a painter with a patron, they are able to focus on the beauty before them rather than allowing the unrest of questions that do not yet need answer stifle the thought inside them.
One day, I am quite certain, I will finally get around to shopping my backlog of stories and finding them proper sanctuary. But I’m not in a hurry. Right now I am an architect of language, building beacons for a reception of readers or lending a helping hand to businesses who need help articulating their ideas.
Because I am a ghostwriter, I am already rewarded more than once for my writing.
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