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Writing Made Easy – How to Find a Quality Ghost Writer

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I suppose the first thing to consider before you choose a ghost writer is whether this absolutely is the option that you want to pursue. Once you have assured yourself of this, then you can get down to the serious business of finding one!

Well, there are thousands to choose from which may make the task seem daunting. However, you can limit your search by having some criteria that need to be met. Choosing a ghost writer is no different to choosing a car, a house or any other commodity. After all, you are about to trust this person with your story which, of course, is very personal to you. Some of the main outcomes that you should be looking for in your partnership with a ghost writer are effective skill writing, quality, professionalism, geography, personality and of course, cost!

Before you start to look for a ghost writer, it is important that you are clear about what your project is! This may seem obvious; however, if you are not clear about the project, you will be unable to convey this to a potential ghost writer. This could lead to you choosing the wrong ghost writer for you and delaying your project. The more clearly your project is defined, the easier it will be to find the right ghost writer for you.

There are a couple of points to consider when defining your project:

· Do you have clearly defined timescales?

· Are the deadlines reasonable?

· Is the topic clearly defined?

· Do you have a word count in mind?

Let’s look at the points we mentioned earlier in more detail.

Effective skill writing

It is recommended that you spend some time researching the skill of your prospective ghost writer. But how do you know who that is? Something you can look for is experience and a ‘proven track record’. So, there are some ways you can establish experience. You should be looking for a ghost writer who has undertaken projects similar to yours in the past. You can ask for samples of their writing, but bear in mind that there are confidentiality issues associated with this. You could ask for references from other customers. Check out their website; this will give you an idea of their style. Any prospective ghost writer should be happy to provide you with examples and references. A skillful ghost writer will be able to adapt to the style you want as long as you are clear about what this is!

Quality

You can check out the quality of your potential ghost writer by reading samples of their work. This doesn’t have to be samples of other ghost writing, it can be any style of writing. Again, you can look out for quality on their website.

Professionalism

It is important that the person you choose is professional. You can establish their level of professionalism in your interactions with them either by phone, face to face or via e-mail. You should also be able to get a sense of their professionalism from their website.

Geography

Geography may play some part in your final decision about which ghost writer you choose. However, in this day and age the many different methods of communication mean that there are several ways to interact with your ghost writer. Initially the most effective way to start a ghost writing project is face-to-face. It is recommended that you have at least one meeting in person. This is as much for your prospective ghost writer as for you. They will want to get a sense of you, your personality, your style and your voice. Some other ways of meeting are by telephone, Skype calls, video-conferencing and e-mail. Whichever option you choose, bear in mind the cost!

Personality

You are about to bare your soul, so to speak, by allowing someone else to take your story, albeit with your input, and transform it into that book you have always dreamed about. Therefore, you should not underestimate the value and importance of getting on with, and having a good relationship with your ghost writer. You need to trust your ghost writer and like them if your project is going to be successful. As before, you can get some understanding of their personality by reading through some of their work and perhaps by their profile on their website.

Cost

For many, this may be the deciding or limiting factor to moving forward with your ghost writing project. Ghost writing can be expensive, but it is important to remember what the benefits of this undertaking can be. It may be that without a ghost writer, you may never have the time, discipline or skill to get your project off the ground, let alone realize the finished product. It is important to do a price comparison, but also to be absolutely clear about what you get for your money. This way you can be sure you are getting value for money and quality.

Most important of all is that you choose a ghost writer who will help you realize your dream, meet your requirements and help you deliver a high quality end product.

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When embarking on a new ghost writing project a ghost writer will ordinarily start their day with a meeting with the individual that they are writing for. This meeting is an opportunity for the writer to learn more about the individual’s background and their motivation for wanting to write the book in the first place. This information will normally be established through an informal discussion during which time the writer can get a real feel for the individual’s own personal style and will start to formulate ideas about how their style could translate into a manuscript.

Once the informal chat has taken place the ghost writer will then start to establish some content for the book, posing open ended questions and allowing the individual to talk freely. A ghost writer will often record this conversation so that they can recall and use it easily in the future. Having determined some of the content of the book, the preferred style of the individual employing the ghost writing service, and also giving some consideration to the individual’s personal character, a ghost writer will then return to their desk to start the planning stage.

The planning phase is vital in order that the writer can set some guidelines for their work in terms of word count, number of chapters, and the chapter order and structure. Jotting notes and planning with the use of diagrams and sketches, such as family trees and timelines allows the writer to get a good understanding of the task ahead and to apply a considered approach once they start writing.

So, having embraced the requirements of the book, and planned how the book will be translated into a manuscript, there will be just enough time to start to write. This will usually involve sitting down with a Dictaphone, a large set of notes and a computer. Following the structure in the plan the writer will start to type, continuously looking for ways to write the text with the agreed style and voice etc. Ghost writers will often find that they are able to write a good starting point of a chapter but as they get into the finer detail in telling the story they will realise that some vital information or key points that will help the story progress or flow, are missing. The writer will therefore make a separate note of any missing information so that they can request this at a later date.

Having made a good in-road to the first chapter, the writer will find a good place to finish their writing for the time being, making a note of how they want the story to continue once they start writing on the following day.

Once the computer is switched off there will no doubt be additional subplots, characterisation issues or style adjustments going through the ghost writer‘s head, all ready to be picked up again in the morning at the start of another day in the life of a ghost writer.

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Most tend to go to the online ghost writing services, and search for a writer there. You will certainly find a lot on sites such as Elance, but what kind of service do you expect for $5 or less? Or even $10? Sure, you will get an article, but does it meet the high standards that you should expect of a paid service?

Here is what you should expect of a good article ghostwriter in order that you can use the article for a successful article marketing campaign:

1. Keyword Research

Your article ghost writer should be able to carry out the keyword research for you. In fact, it is almost essential because your ghostwriter will know the type of keyword you need to make the best use of your article. Normal keyword rules do not apply with articles, since they have multiple functions. Here are some points you should keep in mind:

a) A good keyword for a web page listing on Google will not necessarily be a good one for an article directory. If you are seeking a good listing on Google then you should be seeking a keyword that has low supply but high demand – very hard to come by, but it can be done with the right kind of keyword research.

b) If you want your article to be read on the article directories, then a high demand is best, irrespective of the supply. Most of that supply, and hence your competition, will be from websites, not other articles, and somebody using the search box on a directory to get information is well worth having.

c) A good keyword for an article written by an article ghost writer is therefore one that is somewhere between the two. Not quite the most competitive, but also not quite the most used. Get the right balance and your keyword will be a winner for your needs. A good professional article ghost writer will know that and will be able to help you to arrive at the best keyword for the title and body of your article according to your purpose of having them write the article.

In simple terms, they will write the article to achieve your desired result.

2. Good Grammar

I laugh at those that claim ‘grammar doesn’t matter’. Of course it matters, and there are a lot of people that will not read an article that is badly written. These claims tend to be made by those for whom grammar is a mystery – they can’t do it themselves, so claim it doesn’t matter. It matters all right!

A good ghost writer will write using good colloquial grammar: not perfect to the rules, but readable and acceptable. A ghostwriter will know the level of grammar needed for each type of subject, and an article on education or any technical topic should be perfect in its grammar, both to demonstrate that the writer is qualified to write about education, and also to avoid any ambiguity or misunderstanding through inaccurate use of grammar.

3. Good Article Construction

When seeking an article ghost writer for article marketing purposes you should make sure that your choice is able to construct the article properly, with a good title, introductory paragraph, article body, concluding paragraph and resource that flow well from one to the other.

The whole objective of article marketing is to persuade readers to click on your resource link. If the article is not constructed to arrive at the resource in a logical fashion the reader may not get the point and bypass your resource altogether. This is very common in article writing, and if your ghost writer cannot achieve this then you are paying for nothing.

4. Getting the Click or the Listing

The reason you pay an article ghost writer to write an article for you is that you will be using that article as part of an article marketing strategy to make money. It’s as simple as that: to make money.

You make money by getting visitors to your website or blog or whatever web presence you have to sell your products or services. Your article might be written to be listed high in the search engines, or to be read in article directories. Perhaps a bit of both – although that tends to achieve 50% of nothing in real life.

We touched a little on this in Section 3, but a good article ghost writer should know how to use article marketing to its fullest potential, and how to write your article to get either high Google listings or lots of reads from the directory. People do read articles that are published on directories, and many copy them as content for their websites – particularly if these are sites constructed only for Adsense advertising.

5. Find Successful Writers

Knowing how to get the click or the listing makes the difference between successful writing and just writing. Your article ghost writer should write with your success in mind, but many do not. They just write – some well, and some badly, but not really interested in the reason for you giving them the writing job. Pay silly prices and get silly articles! They just want paid while others love to see your success resulting from their efforts.

What you must do is find a good experienced article ghost writer that has his or her own successful websites, and that are well aware of what is needed to advertise and promote their sites using article marketing. Then, you will have like minded people writing for you in the same way that they write for themselves – successfully!

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More information on how a professional ghost writer with a high listed website can help you to achieve your own success is available on Pete’s website Article Services and he also teaches you how to do it yourself on Article Czar, his highly regarded eBook on article marketing.
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If you have your own website, then you will want to attract some visitors to it! Article Marketing is a great way to promote your own website. This Article Marketing process involves you writing some articles, or hiring someone else to write them for you, and then you post these articles online, as often as you can on a website such as ArticlesBase.com. Posting article marketing pieces every single day is the best plan of attack, if you can manage it, but even posting a few each week is better than nothing!

The main reason that websites such as ArticlesBase.com exist, is so that people can post their articles and attract attention to their websites! This article directory website also has some good and useful information (most of the time) so be sure to check back regularly!

If YOU ever need a great ghost writer, my name is Father Time, and you can visit my website at www.FatherTimePublishing.com to learn more! After a while of writing for others, I started my own website where I sell all sorts of Good Luck Charms and Amulets! I had a colleague who suggested I can do some article writing for myself each day, and she was absolutely correct!

To see that this Article Marketing stuff really works, you can go to any search engine, and type in the name of my #1 best selling product: Indian Medicine Bag and then you will see many pieces that I have written, all over the first few pages! You can also try: Mayan Worry Dolls as well!

If You Click Here You Can See My Article Writing Package Deal! The awesome package special is for those who are serious about their business, as you can’t just post one or two articles and then stop…you have to stay steady and consistent! Whether you post one article every single day or even two or three per week, the main thing is to keep posting articles on an ongoing basis! That’s the best plan of attack for an article marketing campaign! “Rome wasn’t built in a day!”

I am also a self-help writer and speaker, and I write this Daily Motivational e-mail Message Seen Here and I am currently offering a few FREE Subscriptions as gifts to those who request them, and you can sign-up for free, right away! You will love these daily, powerful messages! Please tell a friend about them, too!

Many Blessings!

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Father Time can HELP YOU! You Did Not SEE THIS by Mistake or by Accident! Whether you Need a Good Ghost Writer for Hire! Or maybe you need his Daily Motivational e-mail Service! Or perhaps a Powerful Good Luck Amulet is what you Need!
It was Meant To Be that YOU found this Message on ArticlesBase.com 
Father has been a published writer for over 33 years, and He also has a fabulous Online SuperStore featuring many unique and interesting items, including Good Luck Amulets, Psychic Readings via e-mail, Indian Medicine Bags, and other Powerful & Effective Mystical Items and Good Luck Attracting Jewelry! Do YOU Want to WIN MONEY Gambling?
Father’s awesome website is www.FatherTimePublishing.com where he also offers an Awesome Daily Motivational e-mail Service! You can sign-up for FREE for a limited time only!
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Article Marketing is a very powerful force on the Internet, and it will help you to promote your website, attract some visitors, and eventually get some business. I say eventually because nothing happens overnight!

You see, if you bought a sales kit to get involved in a money making opportunity, through some big company that sells vitamins or cosmetics, as an example, then one of two things can happen…either…

#1) You will pass out as many catalogs as you can, you will spread the word, and you will tell everyone that you know, that you are now selling “such and such” products. As soon as you collect some money for some initial sales, you will then place an order and while you’re at it, you will buy more catalogs, brochures, and other tools to “build your business.” In other words, you are working this as though it were a job, and you would make money! But you would have to work at it to get the rewards!

#2) If you are unmotivated, lazy, or lacking the confidence, and you just give one catalog to your neighbor, who orders nothing, then you quit or give up, and you throw that sales kit with all of those materials and catalogs into the closet…then guess what? You lose…you make no money, and that’s the end of that! You would have been better off to not even buy the sales kit!

Well, the same requirement of working at the business, still applies to folks who buy a website from some company that will “put you into business” within five minutes, with your very own website stocked with thousands of great products that you can sell! By the way, here is just such an awesome company that I highly recommend! 

You have to work at promoting your website, by either…

#1)

Writing some articles that you can post on an Article Directory website, such as www.ArticlesBase.com or…

#2) Hire a Ghost Writer, such as myself, to write these articles for you, to post under your own name on the aforementioned website!

If you do not promote your website, buy doing some work, or by hiring someone to work for you, then it is the equivalent of “throwing your website business on the floor of the closet!” That will be the end of that…you will not make any money!

So, since you would really like to have a thriving website business of your own, eventually…then you should get busy and get to work with some awesome Article Marketing! It really works, and proof of this fact, are the over Two Million Articles on ArticlesBase.com, not to mention the other article websites that are out there!

“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it!” -Chinese proverb

Good Luck & Many Blessings!

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Father Time has been a published writer for over 33 years. He has a fabulous Online SuperStore featuring many unique and interesting items, including Good Luck Amulets, Psychic Readings via e-mail, Indian Medicine Bags, and other Mystical Items and Good Luck Attracting Jewelry!
Father’s website is www.FatherTimePublishing.com where he also offers an Awesome Daily Motivational e-mail Service!
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… and I’d like to write for you. I write high quality articles at reasonable prices, that you can use to market your product (online or offline), web site, blog, membership program, or service.

What do Ghost Writers Do? 

and what’s a Marketing Writer, anyway?

A marketing writer creates text to be used in marketing pieces – crafted to appeal to the reader in a way that leads them towards a purchase.

A ghostwriter is a professional writer paid to write content credited to another person. It may involve writing books, stories, reports or articles. Executives, celebrities or political leaders mostly hire ghostwriters to draft and edit magazine articles, autobiographies or other content. Their services are also required when it comes to writing musical pieces or film composition. Sometimes, a publisher or an author may acknowledge the contribution of the writer in the content.

The work of a ghostwriter varies largely. In some cases, he may be hired to edit and polish a manuscript or a draft. In such cases, he does not need to incorporate his ideas since he has the outline already laid out. The author may have written most of the details and laid the groundwork. In other cases, the writer may have only come up with a title and a theme. This would require him to use his own concepts and storylines. If the author has provided these details, then the article writer is expected to write based on that. Most of the times however, the credited author will have jotted down the basic framework of ideas to be developed and given instructions on how to develop the material.

In case of an autobiography, the ghostwriter is expected to interview the author, his or her colleagues, family members and other people that may give the needed information. Ghostwriters may spend several months researching, writing or editing a client’s work. Their pay rate may vary, either per page, a flat fee or a percentage of sales royalties. He may even be paid based on a combination of the above methods. In case of a book, authors generally pay the writer a flat rate. Anything between $12,000 and $30,000 is a good deal for most writers. In case of technical articles, the article writer may charge per word, depending on the complexity of the article.

Many countries have established a minimum fee that article

writers or ghostwriters are to be paid. As a result, many publishers have outsourced their work to offshore locations like India where they can save up to 80% of the total cost of writing. Fiction publishers employ ghostwriters on a wide scale. They can be used to increase the number of books published by a particular author or write new books for an established series. Ghostwriters using a pseudonym purportedly write fictional books like Nancy Drew. Some authors may hire a ghostwriter to continue writing works under their name after their death.

Politicians and public officials have large volumes of correspondence and replying to them all can become difficult. Their involvement varies, based on many factors. In most cases however, the high-ranking official is presented with a draft done by a ghostwriter. He may request changes or reviewing of the content after which he may approve and sign the final copy. Other services of a ghost worker may involve writing speeches, public remarks or addresses. Newer forms of ghost writing include writing blogs for people and updating them frequently. Ghostwriters will evidently continue to be used in the future to perform work that original writers feel they cannot finish.