HOW TO 10X YOUR GHOSTWRITING
If you want to grow fast I mean, 10 X your writing abilities as a ghostwriter, do this-
Read aloud what you write.
Pronouncing helps you to both hear and see the words.
The words, as they sound, give you a picture, and this lets you know if what you wrote conveys the message you intended when you crafted the words.
I normally invite people to help read my poems out loud and from there I can tell what to change or keep. If the words I use don’t create the desired impression or convey the intended message, this serves as feedback for me to make immediate corrections.
Occasionally, when spoken, certain phrases may disrupt the intended thought. Remove what does not sit well with other words and rephrase them.
They may make the whole writing exercise too “wordy” so you have to decide what to discard.
Reading your writing out loud can help you identify sentences that disrupt the flow or rush the scene’s closure.
If what you are writing, for example, has dialogue, reading out loud is the best measure to know if the conversation flows. If the exchange is not working, you know what to do.
It can help you know if your “hero” is speaking out of character.
You can’t judge tonality properly without sound.
Tonality is king when you ghostwrite – OVYAY
If he or she is the politically correct/ want to be popular/ people pleasing kind of person, and you filled your writing with “it has to be done now”, “I insist”, “we have to”, “no one leaves until it’s concluded,” “no sentiments please” type of language, you will have an unhappy client.
Your client is a comic kind of person. He is full of laughter and joy, then you fill his work with phrases like “life is serious business”, “smash the opposition”, “clobber your enemies”, there are going to be problems when you submit your work.
That is also why it’s good to study your client’s past work and listen well when you are getting briefed about the job.
I once read Grant Cardone’s book, “THE 10X RULE”. That book fired me up a lot. I enjoyed it. If I am privileged to Ghostwrite for him, I wouldn’t be using pliant words at all.
Several years ago, a friend edited my first book, and he removed a lot of my commonly used phrases in his attempt to make the book appealing to a mass audience. By the time I read his edited version, I abandoned the book and went to start afresh without ever involving him in my writing to date. He meant well, but I wasn’t the client he needed.
If you have no one to read out loud for you, use the reading tools on your phone or download a text-to-voice app that can read text for you out loud.
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