July 23, 2011

Ghostwriter in History

Ghostwriter in History

If we look at Ghostwriter history, this profession has been exist so long. When the people love reading and writing this profession was mushrooming too. If you’re into ghostwriting maybe get this brief explanation about ghostwriting history. First of all, people needed ghostwriter to rewrite bibles. Since the bibles should be produced in some different languages or versions, so ghostwriters was needed.

Ghost writer in History

Ghostwriter in History

Maybe you go for comics. One of the most popular comics comes from Japan. But have you known that some of those comics are written by ghostwriters. The authors need hands from ghostwriter to help them produce pages for their comics. Some ghostwriters help the authors to draw some comic figures. A popular cartoon figure, A lazy cat named Garfield, hired some ghostwriter to write the story or draw the comics figure. The ghostwriters only write the story, which the whole idea of the story still came from the author itself. Basically, the ghostwriters only help the author to produce the pages and draws for his work.

If I ask you about Shakespeare, you must know him. He is a popular artist, who made some outstanding artwork such as plays, poems, and prose. Some of his popular plays are; Beowulf, Hamlet, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. Some of the experts believe that Shakespeare is not real; he is just a group of ghostwriter that made some literature art works that was intended to influence the people and the world by those artworks. Some people say that He is other person with other name who asked help from a ghostwriter to make some artworks.

Mozart, a world class composer, besides made music compositions for himself, he also helped his other musician friend in composing music. The ghostwriters contributed so much for some popular people around us.

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July 21, 2011

Ghostwriter on Youtube

Ghostwriter on Youtube

Are you looking for a Ghostwriter movie on Youtube? If yes you may go to this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re6IiHanAdY&playnext=1&list=PL043C748293550F56/ or look at this video.

Ghostwriter on Youtube

From that link you may watch the first part of the ghostwriter TV series goes. In the very beginning of that video you may watch Jamal a little boy and Samuel Jackson that he acts as Jamal’s Father. They are cleaning the garage. They move some things in that garage to other place. When they are trying to pull some stuff, unintentionally Jamal dropped a book. Then, the book is opened and something like a blue light which is known as the ghostwriter suddenly comes out from that opened book and fly around the garage. In fact, Jamal and his father do not know that a ghostwriter sprit has came out from the book and flown around. After the spirit has flown over, He goes to Jamal T shirt, then he is embedded himself on the letters that are printed on Jamal’s shirt.

Then it is continued by Jamal appearance. He comes back from a store while he is bringing some stuffs on his hand, then he notices in the park, there are some people in their masks doing some weird dances. Maybe they’re doing a ritual. He ignores it and then he continues his walking to home. When He arrives in home, He turns on his desktop computer and type some sentences, suddenly the ghost comes out from Jamal’s t shirt and tries to get attention from Jamal by beeping words that are stuck on the board. Then Jamal is surprised when he knows about it. Then the spirit types some words on Jamal’s computer. It makes Jamal so confused. Jamal is so scared and disbelieved about what he is experienced. Then he tried to call his sister to check what just has happened. But his sister sees nothing. It is the first meeting of Jamal with the spirit of ghostwriter. If you really want to know about that ghostwriter movie on YouTube for the complete story please go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re6IiHanAdY&playnext=1&list=PL043C748293550F56/

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July 17, 2011

Fees for Ghostwriter

Fees for Ghostwriter services can range in variety. It depends on the kind of ghostwriter you hire, since there are two kinds of ghostwriter that has different range of fees. They are an individual ghostwriter and a ghostwriter that works for a corporation or institution.

Sometimes, a ghostwriter that works under his own name is cheaper than one who works for institution. Since the fee of institution ghostwriter is stated and managed by his institution. It is different with individual ghostwriter that he or she determine his or her own price and this kind of ghostwriter does not need to share the royalty to any institution because he or she works under his or her own name.

Then it depends on what you will choose, the cheap fee or the quality, whether an institution of ghostwriter cannot guarantee that he could produce a good writing result, still this ghostwriter is hired by an institution that can guarantee its employees are professional. 
Fees are normally going around $30 a page for rephrasing an on hand script. Usually the ranges of a professional ghostwriter to write a full book are $50 per page. However a ghost writer with a credit and track record of producing best seller book are paid more than hundred dollars. Based on writers market, the range of fees is $5,000 as very low, $15,000 low, $25,000 mid-range, and $50,000 or more high. If you are going to make a story book of person, or organization and your ghostwriter need to meet the person related to the book, you should let him meet the person in charge expect to pay $25.000 for overall proficient writing work.

You can divide the payment into three times payment.  You can pay the first part fee of your ghostwriter in the beginning of working, then second part in the mid-part of the project, and the third last part in the end of the project. Or maybe you can pay the fees for your ghostwriter monthly after the project started. 

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July 16, 2011

Ghostwriter’s definitions

Ghostwriter’s definition from some points of view: Here they are some definitions about ghostwriter that you should know:
  1. A ghostwriter is a professional writer who is paid to write books, articles, stories, reports, or other texts that are officially credited to another person. Celebrities, executives, and political leaders often hire ghostwriters to draft or edit autobiographies, magazine articles, or other written material. In music, ghostwriters are used in film score composition, as well as for writing songs and lyrics for popular music genres.Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwriter.
  1. A ghostwriter is a writer who writes on an assigned topic under someone else's name, with their consent. They often write books completely from scratch but sometimes their work involves rewriting or polishing an existing work.Most books by famous personalities are actually written by ghostwriters. When you see an autobiography or memoir from a politician, businessperson, or celebrity, chances are that it has been written by a ghostwriter. Taken from http://www.worldwidefreelance.com/freelance-writing/ghostwriting/28-what-is-a-ghostwriter
  2. Ghostwriting is the act of writing books or other pieces in which another "author" receives full credit (the "official" author gets the byline). Often, the official author is a celebrity, politician, or other figure that can sell books, but cannot necessarily write books. Another common occurrence is when the book is one in a branded series. Ghostwriting pay is medium to high in the freelance writing world, and many writers specialize specifically in this discipline. Taken from http://freelancewrite.about.com/od/glossary/g/gw.htm
  3. A ghost writer is someone who writes a book or articles for someone else. The ghost writer is paid a sum of money to write the material needed and hand it over to the payee. The person who has paid for the work will then assign his name or someone else’s name to claim the work as his own. Taken from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-ghost-writer.htm

Hopefully some definitions about ghostwriter from different points of views will help you to understand more about ghostwriter.



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July 13, 2011

Hire a ghostwriter

Hire a ghostwriter is easily done nowadays, since most of ghostwriters offer their services on some public media, such as internet, newspaper, and magazine. In fact you’re full of idea, you master and understand your content so much, you can explain it to other people but maybe you don’t have sufficient time just to put your idea on writing, or maybe you can’t write well for a market basis, so you definitely need a ghostwriter. They will save your time, so you can do other work. Actually there are two kinds of ghostwriter that can be hired, freelance and corporation ghostwriter. You may choose which one that you want to hire

Well, if you want to rent ghostwriter, firstly, tell him what exactly you need, what kind of writing that you require from them. Different ghostwriter has different writing style. However, they usually write based on the writing style that is required by the clients. Maybe let them to do some pre-research before they start writing is a good idea. The research can be done to know how prospective the idea that you have in the market. After they’re ready to write, make sure they have understood what you need. Don’t forget to negotiate about the price or fee, before you rent them. How the payment system is. Different ghostwriter has different payment system. Sometimes they ask the royalty payment after the book has been sold or they ask it when they start writing and the bonus will be asked in the end of the project. An individual ghostwriter sometimes proposes lower price than ghostwriter that work for corporation.

Whether you have writing ability that’s good enough, it is better to let ghostwriter do writing work for you. You cannot guarantee that your writing will be accepted by a publisher. However by hiring a ghostwriter, I mean a good one will guarantee the quality of the output and it is marketable. Hire a ghostwriter now! 

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Freelance Ghostwriter

Freelance Ghostwriter is a writer that is hired by someone else to organize idea, do some research, write a book, or maybe edit draft. These Ghostwriters don’t work under any company or corporation; they work under their own name. Maybe we can call them by a private ghostwriter. The work duty of private ghostwriter is quite similar with ghostwriter that works under corporation. 

You’ll get nice fee on it but you will not see yourself name on your writing, your client. Well firstly what you’ve to do is establishing a workshop, maybe in your house, garage, or maybe you may rent a store as your workplace. Make sure your workshop is equipped with some office and communication equipments, such as telephone, computer, fax, internet connection, printer, and actually table and chairs. If it is possible to make a workshop in your house, it’s better for you than you’ve to rent a shop. It will save your budget. Then make sure your workshop is sterile from your children because they sometimes can make a mess to some stuff inside your workshop.  

Besides you must set up your own workshop, you also need to set up your own work time, the best time for you to begin and stop working. Make sure the time that has been set up don’t interfere your time with your family or maybe your other duties. One of the advantages from being a private ghostwriter is that you can decide how much your fee is without any strain from your superior since you work under you name. However, you still have to consider the rate of the fee that is common. 

Then, since you work to yourself, you have to make a publication by yourself; nowadays the best way to make a publication is on blog or sites. Internet is widely used by people. So they will easily find you. Well, a freelance ghostwriter can be a good choice as a job.

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July 11, 2011

Celebrity’s Ghostwriters

Celebrity’s Ghostwriters

Celebrity’s Ghostwriters are ghostwriters that are employed by celebrities to write for some purposes. They hire ghostwriters to write their autobiographies, compose song lyrics, make good speeches, or simply just mention on twitter and update the Facebook. Here they are the celebrities that hire ghostwriters.
Celebrity’s Ghostwriters

Celebrity’s Ghostwriters

  1. 50 Cent, an American rapper and actor, that became famous from his album Get Rich or Die Tryin’. He hires a ghostwriter to update the feeds of his twitter. The ghostwriter of him to tweet is the director of 50's Web empire, Chris Romero. 
  2. Britney Spear. Do you know her? Most of the people know her from his single “Baby one more Time”. This American pop singer also hires a ghostwriter just to tweet and update her Facebook page. Similar with 50 Cent. 
  3. Kanye West. His full name actually Kanye Omari West, an American rapper and music director needs a ghostwriter to aid him keep up with his frequent post on Facebook or Twitter. 
  4. Barrack Obama, The President of The United States of America that everyone must know him also hire staffs to update his team line on his behalf. 
  5. David Beckham, A famous football player from England that now plays for Los Angeles Galaxy, A Football Club in The United States. After he played some seasons for Real Madrid. He hired a ghostwriter to write an autobiography which had been sold out, even made him won an award. In fact, the writer of his autobiography was the actor-turned-broadcaster Tom Watt.
  6. Katie Price A Famous British Singer and Model. Being Jordan, her autobiography was written by a ghostwriter. The book was success. It was sold 100.000 copies of book over a weekend.
We could see above that all kinds of celebrity hire ghostwriter, from singer, model, politician and athlete. They maybe don’t have the time just to sit down and write their own autobiography, or they cannot writer for a marketable basis. Thus, they need celebrity’s ghostwriters

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July 9, 2011

4 Reasons Why You Must Choose Ghostwriter’s Job

4 Reasons Why You Must Choose Ghostwriter’s Job

Becoming a Ghostwriter? Why not? You have ability to write, You can deal with deadlines, You have an excellent foreign language skill. You be it! A ghostwriter that able to help and assist your clients to deliver their work. So, why should you choose this kind of job? Whether you never like to be a ghostwriter, you always want to be a real writer with your name in the cover and inside the book?

4 Reasons Why You Must Choose Ghostwriter’s Job

  1. It is a surprisingly fast and easy way to earn money without leaving your primary job. With a flexible schedule, both individuals, companies, organizations or corporations will be hired you in. As your skills increasing significantly, you can be able to quit your primary job.
  2. If you have an experience as a writer that often meet with strong deadlines, it will be an advantage. Many of potential clients have a strong deadlines. They rush because a marketing strategy reason and the time limit. So, to meet the opportunity and grab the chance, a friendly-deadline Ghostwriter must be on their top list.
  3. Through your own personal websites, you may sell your service. If you make it in professional way, also you attach your portfolio, you are not only gain potential client, but also make your website a money-machine with google adsense. See! One benefit for all that coming!
  4. What about the money? How much money that you can earn from ghostwriting? If you are persistent and work hard to raise your skills, you will gain remarkable income. For any professional and high-end Ghostwriter, they ussually get $5.000 - $15.000 for one book ( Rp44.000.000 – Rp132.000.000 in Indonesian Rupiah). For new comer, it depends on the various service that you may offer. For example for a short general article of 300-400 words you may charge Rp25.000 until Rp75.000 per article. Once again it depends on how interesting of your portfolio and your experience. For writing a how-to book, you may charge per page with various amount. The charge may come flexible, it really depend on your negotiation or contract with your client.
So, this is why you must choose Ghostwriter's Job?

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    July 8, 2011

    Finding a Ghostwriter

    Finding a Ghostwriter

    Ghostwriter may be the right solution for your writing materials. When you easily get stuck, have no ideas, may be this is the time for you to hire a ghostwriter.  So, what you must pay attention to when you aimed to finding a ghostwriter? First of all, you may ask him/her to share the sample of work. You shall spend some time to analyze their work, whether it suit you and your project or not. Sometimes, you may find the good one through a reference. He/she may have an excellent portfolio, but obviously you find that the works do not suit you well or worse you will find that the portfolio is plagiarism.  It is better if you have a trustful source that may recommend you a good ghostwriter rather than you attempt it by yourself.  You may also consider a small trial project to test the ghostwriter’s ability to meet your project.

    Finding a Ghostwriter

    Secondly, give him/her an example of your project. So, you may easily know that he/she gets into you or not. Then, consider the experience of the ghostwriter. The more experience he/she has, the more capability he/she may compete. Make sure that he/she has a wide knowledge with your project. After that, make a two way communication. It is very important for you to create a comfortable zone with your ghostwriter’s candidate through communication. Tell them what you are exactly wanting to, what you are exactly purposing to, what you are exactly looking to. So you can adjust the limited time efficiently.

    Finally, don’t forget to negotiate the compesation. A good and experienced ghostwriter shall come with reasonable price. You must identify your length of project to be written, is it a novel, book, article, brochure, catalogue? etc. A standard fee should include the length of time to take survey, research, interview (if necesssary), and to collect data.

    Find your reliable ghostwriter at www.ghostwriterinfo.com

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    July 7, 2011

    Ghostwriter TV Show


    Ghost writer TV Show

    Have you ever watched a TV Show about Ghostwriter? If you really go for ghostwriter, you should watch “ghostwriter” TV series, whether it is no longer broadcasted now, but you can still watch them from DVD or other media. It was broadcasted on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), an American non-profit public broadcasting television service. It was really popular around 1992 to 1995. The director of this movie is Liz Nelson and it was produced by Sesame Workshop and BBC one. The Show tells us about a group of pre-teenagers of elementary and middle school age. They like to do detective things to help other people in their surroundings. One day, they got a friend. He is a spirit or ghost that can write or read some words or sentence, but he can’t talk nor hear. He was a man who has passed away. He is invisible, yet only ghostwriter team could see him. 
    ghost writer tv show

    Ghost writer TV Show

    The team is consisted of four children, later seven. The team solves crimes and mysteries in the neighborhood around Brooklyn, NY. Ghostwriter helps them by telling what they should do by directing words.  The spirit gives clue to them until they could solve the mystery. The setting was in around Brooklyn, New York. This movie was intended to children and this is good for them.  Actually this TV show was intended to encourage children to read and write. By watching this movie, children are stimulated that reading and writing are things that are amusing and helpful. Moreover, it tells about friendship and helps other people. 

    The starring are: Sheldon Turnipseed as Jamal; Blaze Berdahl as Lenni; David López as Alex; ram-Anh Tran as Tina; Lateaka Vinson as Casey; William Hernandez as Hector; and Melissa Gonzales as Gaby. It was a success TV series and got some awards. It was also broadcasted to other country and dubbed to other languages. The original language was English. The Ghostwriter tv show was stopped because of lack of funding.

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    July 5, 2011

    Ghostwriter Software


    Ghost writer software

    Ghostwriter software is a program that can help a ghostwriter to save writing work’s time.  Some software is available on website, whether some other programs can be installed on your computer. Some of the common software that are used by ghostwriter as follows:

    Ghost writer software

    1.    The Best Spinner - for Ghostwriter

    The Best spinner lets the user to create sentence or maybe paragraphs to different one but still keep exactly the same meaning with the original sentences or paragraphs. This program also gives the data about how exclusive the word is, so it will work well in search engines.

    2.    Instant Article - for Ghostwriter

    This is software that may help a ghostwriter without install it on to computer. What you can do is sign up to make an account. It is not difficult to operate it. You just simply type the words and the software will list several sentences for you. It seems like search engine. It provides trial day for about seven days. After that, you have to pay for charge monthly.

    3.    Magic Article Rewriter  - for Ghostwriter

    This software lets the user get whole article based on the keyword that has been typed. It shows more than 100 different articles for one keyword. If you want to get it you have to purchase it for $100.

    4.    Content Rewriter Pro - for Ghostwriter

    This software also provides article based on the keyword that you have typed. However, there is a special feature in this software that you can type your own article to this software and then the software will show to you whether your article is similar or not with other articles on the internet. You can purchase it for $97.

    Actually there are a lot of other programs for ghostwriter but those are the software that are commonly employed by ghostwriters indeed you have to select it carefully which program that meets your needs and your budgets. You may select program that is commonly used by other people so you may ask their comments about the programs before you really purchase those ghostwriter software.

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    July 4, 2011

    Are you ready to be a professional ghostwriter?

    Professional Ghostwriter: Do you have any interest to be a qualified ghostwriter? Nowadays, Ghostwriter is widely used by companies or individual to write for some basics. You need to consider some aspects to be a qualified Ghostwriter.
    First of all, it’s better for you to make a publication in some mass media for example newspaper to offer your service in ghostwriting and inform other people that you are a qualified ghostwriter and skillful in ghostwriting work. However, it should not always be published on printed media, nowadays internet is widely used by people. As a result, you may make advertisement on some websites. You also can make your own website telling about your ghostwriting service. Enclose your credit, experiences, and your curriculum vitae, so your client will exactly know your capacity in ghostwriting. Essentially you should assure your prospective client to have ghostwriting service with you. Sometimes, some clients could not meet you directly, so make sure they have access to your website to send their drafts to be edited or developed.
    Besides publication you should consider about your manner and punctuality. You have to be good at them. The good manner is not always related to nice suits or shoes. The way you serve your client will be considered seriously by your client. Make sure you serve them well. Maybe you are familiar with a term “deadline”. The clients will be satisfied if you are punctual. It’s better for you to finish the writing before the deadline. It can be such kind of the proofing ground for you that you are qualified enough in that field. You may work for some writing sites which sometimes give short deadline. You may work under deadlines to put on your experience and skill. If you could finish your writing under deadline well you will be considered as a skillful Ghostwriter. So, are you ready to be a professional ghostwriter?
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    How To Find a Ghostwriter?

    How To Find a Ghostwriter?

    I am sure that everybody must have a story to tell. But perhaps a problem shall arise when they are trying to tell the story. Let’s face it, we are sometimes facing diffculties when dealing with how to string words together, choose compatible sentence or term, grammar matters, and other writing problems. Although you already havesome tools that may support you such as, the latest word program, tools check (spelling, grammar, punctuation, translation), those are not suddenly became the “Help Tools” for you to express your ideas into the written form. “The long way to go” between your mind and the paper shall be solved by the service of a Ghostwriter.

    How To Find a Ghostwriter?

    How can I find a Ghostwriter?
    On www.ghostwriterinfo.com you will find a good ghostwriter that might help your project. Are you looking for someone to help writing your book? Or do you need a publication for your potential customer at the local or national newspaper or magazine? Are you having great ideas that to be sure will be a bestseller book? Start to write now! Don’t let your ideas get wasted.
    A ghostwriter can either write, rewrite or editing your written material. Especially when you got stuck, obviously assistance from ghostwriter should be a great solution. A good ghostwriter will be skilled in interview; this is one of the important and effective ways to create comfortable atmosphere to express your thought. Make sure that the ghostwriter gets all the information in your mind that she or he will translate it into the written word. Therefore, it is important to select a ghostwriter that can be trusted and understand you.
    Finding a ghostwriter is not only helping you write your book but also she or he is having a wide knowledge about publishing industry. What I am trying to say, a professional ghostwriter should at least giving you the right direction or opinion to find an agent or publisher that may suit with your written material.
    So, how to find a ghostwriter? Check out more at www.ghostwriterinfo.com

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