![]() Composers have long hired ghostwriters to help them to write musical pieces and songs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is an example of a well-known composer who was paid to ghostwrite music for wealthy patrons. Ghostwriting (or simply "ghosting") also occurs in other creative fields. Sometimes the ghostwriter is acknowledged by the author or publisher for their writing services, euphemistically called a "researcher" or "research assistant", but often the ghostwriter is not credited. Usually, there is a confidentiality clause in the contract between the ghostwriter and the credited author that obligates the former to remain anonymous. Screenplay authors can also use ghostwriters to either edit or rewrite their scripts to improve them. In music, ghostwriters are often used to write songs, lyrics, and instrumental pieces. Memoir ghostwriters often pride themselves in "disappearing" when impersonating others since such disappearance signals the quality of their craftsmanship. Celebrities, executives, participants in timely news stories, and political leaders often hire ghostwriters to draft or edit autobiographies, memoirs, magazine articles, or other written material. ![]() As a result, his publisher hired ghostwriters to write novels in the Clancy style.Ī ghostwriter is a catch phrase and unofficial term for a human person hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are putatively credited to another person as the author. The popular demand for Tom Clancy's action novels exceeded his ability to write new books.
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