David Lucero
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Aidan Mc Nally:
What's your take on 'Ghost Writers'? I hear some popular authors hire them and then take credit for the book. I'm at odds. I know writing is a business, but when I see authors with hundreds of books to their names, and know they can't possibly whip them out so quick, I'm not sure I'm on same page that claiming a book written by someone else is being on the level.
Aidan Mc Nally
I get the point that is being made here and cannot find a flaw or call fowl. My feeling in writing my own story has been a ton of hard work in all arenas. The case for me would be a simple one, if it is a story that someone feels it must be told, then tell it. The method of how and who really would not bother me. I have several more stories to tell and each are as unbelievable as the next, for this I believe it is worth telling.
My memoir TWO sons TOO many is one of those such stories that whomever were to write it, it is a shocking story that must be told.
Is it fair to have a more professional approach of a ghost writer? Perhaps not fair if comparing how timeline and churning out book after book when someone like myself has only one keyboard only one mind and one set of eyes and hands to bring my own story to life, however, doing a self publish as I did leaves or more like opens a whole new door to a world of books. I prefer the learning curve all the while, allow my story to be told.
Perhaps a ghost writer could have taken my exact story and a perfect manuscript could have soared to number one best seller on it's first day of release.
I prefer the learning curve and all that goes with the early released edition being the wrong file and littered with errors, as opposed to the better edited version. And simple little problems, but would this not just take away some rawness?
I guess to finalize, I have much preferred my own method as opposed to write as I did not view it as a book that would be available for sale and only as a manuscript that I would share with friends just so they could get a grasp at some of the unbelievable events that have occurred in my own life.
Story worth telling is a story worth writing, "they say"
So get it done and get it told, regardless of the actual writer....
That's my take at least.
My memoir TWO sons TOO many is one of those such stories that whomever were to write it, it is a shocking story that must be told.
Is it fair to have a more professional approach of a ghost writer? Perhaps not fair if comparing how timeline and churning out book after book when someone like myself has only one keyboard only one mind and one set of eyes and hands to bring my own story to life, however, doing a self publish as I did leaves or more like opens a whole new door to a world of books. I prefer the learning curve all the while, allow my story to be told.
Perhaps a ghost writer could have taken my exact story and a perfect manuscript could have soared to number one best seller on it's first day of release.
I prefer the learning curve and all that goes with the early released edition being the wrong file and littered with errors, as opposed to the better edited version. And simple little problems, but would this not just take away some rawness?
I guess to finalize, I have much preferred my own method as opposed to write as I did not view it as a book that would be available for sale and only as a manuscript that I would share with friends just so they could get a grasp at some of the unbelievable events that have occurred in my own life.
Story worth telling is a story worth writing, "they say"
So get it done and get it told, regardless of the actual writer....
That's my take at least.
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