It's not all about the wailing banshees...

The invisible world of ghostwriting is about sharing your stories.

When I tell people I am a ghostwriter, they often think I write spooky stories and ask me to tell them one. Now, I have no shortage of ghost stories, being from the land of the banshee, where tall tales of gaunt old women wailing at the windows of dying relatives are often told around the fireplace of the local pub, but that’s (unfortunately) not my line of work. While I would love a career in telling you all about the faerie curses and the wailing banshees, ghost writing is something quite different. (Still fun, but it won’t keep you up at night.) A ghost writer is someone who often remains the invisible support to an author. The ghostwriter writes the content, and the author receives the byline and credit for the article, book…or sometimes even schoolwork or university work, but that’s a story for another day. “So why don’t you just write it yourself?” people ask. And this is my reason: I have written thousands of articles and opinion pieces under my own name throughout my decades-long career as a journalist, but I am interested in helping people who have brilliant ideas and just need to get them written down artistically and published so we can all enjoy them. I work with wonderfully creative minds on works of fiction, passionate advocates who want to express themselves clearly and make changes in the world, and people who have real life stories that are too important not to share. The reasons behind people not writing these stories themselves could be down to a lack of time or skill, learning difficulties, disabilities, feeling stuck…but a lot of the time my clients are busy people with a million other skills that they are putting to use in their everyday life and writing is something they outsource to an expert. They are busy making positive changes in the world and they want to feel confident that their written work is being crafted beautifully as they do their thing. My clients have important stories to tell, and I have the skills to tell them. When I sit down with a client and before we even begin to discuss their story, I am listening for their little quirks and phrases; the ways they express themselves; the tones they use, their sense of humour; what makes them emotional and the way they show each emotion. These are all combined into the storytelling process, so even the author’s closest friend could not tell that they are not the original author. But the important aspect to note is that it is their story. It came from them. They deserve all the accolades. They just cleverly outsourced the writing part. Now that we’ve got that cleared up, next time I might tell you about the time the banshee appeared to my uncle on a tyre swing tied to an apple tree in the middle of the night. Elaine Cooney - Write for You - Ghostwriting services writeforyou.info writeforyouec@gmail.com

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