Definitions for ghostwriter
ghost·writ·er

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ghostwriter, ghostnoun

   a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

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1. ghostwriternoun

   A professional writer who is paid to write books, articles, stories, or reports which are officially credited to another person.

2. Etymology: ghost + writer

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1. Ghostwriter

   A ghostwriter is hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are officially credited to another person as the author. 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. Memoir ghostwriters often pride themselves in "disappearing" when impersonating others since such disappearance signals the quality of their craftsmanship. In music, ghostwriters are often used to write songs, lyrics, and instrumental pieces. Screenplay authors can also use ghostwriters to either edit or rewrite their scripts to improve them. Usually, there is a confidentiality clause in the contract between the ghostwriter and the credited author that obligates the former to remain anonymous. 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. Ghostwriting (or simply "ghosting") also occurs in other creative fields. 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. Ghosting also occurs in popular music. A pop music ghostwriter writes lyrics and a melody in the style of the credited musician. In hip hop music, the increasing use of ghostwriters by high-profile hip-hop stars has led to controversy. In the visual arts, it is not uncommon in either fine art or commercial art such as comics for a number of assistants to do work on a piece that is credited to a single artist; Andy Warhol engaged in this practice, supervising an assembly line silk screen process for his artwork. However, when credit is established for the writer, the acknowledgment of their contribution is public domain and the writer in question would not be considered a ghostwriter.

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1. ghostwriter

   A ghostwriter is a professional writer who is hired to write for someone else, often a public figure or celebrity, without being credited for their work. The ghostwriter's job is to capture the voice, tone, and style of the person they are writing for. Their writing typically includes books, speeches, articles, or other types of content. Despite their significant contribution, the ghostwriter remains anonymous and the credit for the written material goes to the person who employed them.

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1. Ghostwriter

   A ghostwriter is a writer who writes books, articles, stories, reports, or other texts that are officially credited to another person. Celebrities, executives, and political leaders often hire ghostwriters to draft or edit autobiographies, magazine articles, or other written material. In music, ghostwriters are often used for writing songs and lyrics for popular music genres. Screenplay authors can also use ghost writers to either edit or rewrite their scripts in order to improve them, increasing their chances to be optioned or produced. Also, ghost writers may work on accompanying documents, such as treatments for screenplays. Ghostwriters may have varying degrees of involvement in the production of a finished work. Some ghostwriters are hired to edit and clean up a rough draft, others are hired to do most of the writing based on an outline provided by the credited author. For some projects, ghostwriters will do a substantial amount of research, as in the case of a ghostwriter who is hired to write an autobiography for a well-known person. Ghostwriters are also hired to write fiction in the style of an existing author, often as a way of increasing the number of books that can be published by a popular author. Ghostwriters will often spend a period from several months to a full year researching, writing, and editing nonfiction works for a client, and they are paid either per page, with a flat fee, or a percentage of the royalties of the sales, or some combination thereof. The ghostwriter is sometimes acknowledged by the author or publisher for his or her writing services.

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How to pronounce ghostwriter?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ghostwriter in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ghostwriter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of ghostwriter in a Sentence

1. Sarah Palin:

   I attribute a lot of what we're hearing and reading regarding McCain's statements to his ghostwriter or ghostwriters, i don't know unless I heard it from Sen. McCain myself.

2. Audrey Benoualid:

   Ghostwriter also publicized that Drake and The Weeknd were not involved in the making of the song, which could protect them from a ‘passing off’ claim, where profits are generated as consumers are misled into believing the song is actually a Drake-Weeknd collaboration.

3. Rutger Bruining:

   A good ghostwriter makes a concerted effort to gain the trust of their subject, they find commonality and create a safe space for the client to feel comfortable opening up about often painful subjects.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=ghostwriter
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ghostwriter
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwriter
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=ghostwriter