SUMMARY:
In my Ghostwriting services, I help ANY client — whether it be an anti-addiction coach needing help in bringing their self-help booklet to life or it is a first-time fantasy creator who requires the foundation to help bring their magnum opus to life — get their stories off the ground!
The people you want to reach care about the words you use, not where they came from. Let’s make a story together!
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Process
Here’s my usual process with these kinds of projects:
Initial Conversation: This is a service call/text conversation where the client and I will discuss the project specifics ie. format, deliverables, timeline, deadlines, project specifics, and anything else the client would need project-wise. This is usually done through a Discord (that is recorded with the client’s consent) but I’m also open to a phone call, email correspondence, or Zoom call.
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— (After the first deposit payment) —
༺✿༻PART ONE: BRAINSTORMING & NOVEL OUTLINE DEVELOPMENT༺✿༻
1) Brainstorming — we gather information and get a general feel down for the work we’d like to create for the project (after the first deposit has gone through). This is usually done through a Discord (that is recorded with the client’s consent) but I’m also open to a phone call, email correspondence, or Zoom call.
2) Gathering references — with a general idea for the project down, we then set about gathering references to solidify the genre and best formatting decisions for the prose. Ie. For a ghostwriting project in which I write a mystery novel set in the 1970s, I might search for historical resources about the 1970s to get a feel for the era and sensibilities of the time.
3) Outlining — now that we have an idea of what kind of story we’d like to tell within both scopes of genre, audience, and prose, we form an outline and figure out how the book is going to go together cohesively.
⛤ For fiction projects: This includes world-building q&as, character sketches/evening out the roles of the cast, developing a plot outline and whatever else would be needed to bring the characters and world of the novel to life.
⛤ For non-fiction projects: We would focus on the story that the client aims to tell, developing solid themes to go with the type of story they’re telling, and outlining which life events would work best to highlight the subject and story.
༺✿༻PART TWO: NOVEL WRITING PORTION AKA LET’S GET GHOSTWRITING༺✿༻
5) First pass — essentially the first draft of the written work, designed to get all the ideas down from the outline and develop content for the later formatting decision. After the client sends back feedback and notes for edits, we go on to the next stage. This communication can be done over email, phone call, text message and Discord chat.
6) Second pass — we work together on the prose and bring the book together with the final vision in mind, keeping in contact in the meanwhile. This communication can be done over email, phone call, text message, and Discord chat.
4) Third pass — we make sure that the project is up to our project’s standards. Any final feedback and edits are done within this stage before sending the work off to a professional editor for a grammar check and proofreading look-though. This communication can be done over email, phone call, text message and Discord chat.
5) Final pass — make sure that the work is up to our set project standards one last time. When everything is all clear we go into the next and final stage. This communication can be done over email, phone call, text message and Discord chat. The final invoice is sent at the end of this stage.
— (After the final payment is submitted) —
6) Submit — Submit the final project files in the requested formats to the client. The project is now complete.
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