Ghostwriting
Writing speeches, posts, books, or articles that are published under another person's name and made to sound like them.
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What it is
Ghostwriting is writing that appears under someone else's name and voice. The ghostwriter may draft a speech, memoir, newsletter, article, or executive post from interviews and source material while the named author owns the final message. The Nancy Drew books are a famous version: many hired writers published under the shared name Carolyn Keene.
Reach for it when the named author has the expertise, authority, or story but lacks the time or writing craft to shape it. A useful voice brief captures their vocabulary, sentence rhythm, favorite examples, strong opinions, and words they would never use. The author still needs to review facts and approve the finished piece.
Gotcha: voice matching is not impersonation without consent. Agree on credit, confidentiality, fact checking, approval, and what the writer may invent before drafting. A polished paragraph that states a belief the named author does not hold is a reputational problem, however accurate the cadence sounds.
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Ghostwrite a 700-word article under [author]'s name from the supplied interview transcript and source pack. Build a voice sheet first with recurring words, sentence length, humor, opinions, examples, and banned phrases, then draft to that sheet. Use the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level as a consistency check against the supplied writing samples. Preserve uncertainty where the author expressed it, invent no anecdotes or claims, mark every unsupported fact as [VERIFY], and finish with an author approval checklist.