Balancing your writing routine with your other everyday responsibilities can feel like juggling flaming torches while riding a unicycle. As a budding novelist, tell me if this sounds familiar: you wake up at dawn, prepare breakfast for the kids, commute to your full-time job, and then squeeze in a few moments to write before collapsing…
In Part One, we discovered that a ghostwriter can indeed make your work sound just like you wrote it yourself. Part Two answered the question, ‘who owns the finished product, the author or the ghostwriter?’ In Part Three, let’s talk about three simple reasons why you will use a ghostwriter. Lack of time: Not many…
In our first look at the misconceptions surrounding ghostwriters, we discussed voice. If someone else writes your work, will it sound like your voice? Short answer: yes. So now that we know the work sounds like you, we need to know, does it actually belong to you? No matter what you hire a ghostwriter to…
Part One: Whose Voice Is It, Anyway? Most people are naturally scared of ghosts. Unfortunately, some businesspeople are naturally scared of ghostwriters as well. Are you? Some professionals think: If I use a ghostwriter, will the work sound like mine? If someone ghostwrites my material, is it my work or theirs? Is using a ghostwriter…
Okay, so you’ve made the decision. You want to write a book. You know you need to write a book. It’s been floating around in your head for a long time, and you know all of the good things that will happen to you and your business if you write a book (and if you…
Every time you sit down to write a blog or e-newsletter, you feel like you’re walking into a torture chamber. You spend valuable time each week or month agonizing over the “right” words for your piece. So, is it working for you? Is your blog getting you a loyal following? Are you getting phone calls,…
You’re a business expert. You know your stuff in your chosen industry. You’ve had years of experience. Why not share your knowledge with potential clients? There’s no better way to do that than to write a book. Here are just a few ways a book can help you: A book will position you as an…
You use a calendar to keep all of your important appointments, right? Doctors, dentists, date night, kids’ pick-ups? You’d be lost without your calendar. Why not keep a calendar of important events or news in your industry. Then, when it’s time to write your blog or newsletter, you’ll have your ideas all ready to go!…
In addition to my editing and writing work, I also teach writing skills classes to college students. It’s a pretty basic course, and covers all the things that they learned back in grade school, most of which have been long forgotten, if they were even paid attention to in the first place. A recent…
It goes without saying in today’s technological society that nearly everyone uses the Internet to search for information they want. Looking for a house painter? Google it. Looking for a good book to read? Try Goodreads or Amazon. Want to know what time that movie you’ve been dying to see is playing? You can check…