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Ghostwriting
I read this NPR article a few weeks ago and thought I would share it here to discuss if anyone is up for it. It was interesting and the title is fun! "So You Need a Celebrity Book. Who You Gonna Call? Ghostwriters"
I haven't read many celebrity memoirs unless you count Chelsea Handler, David Sedaris and Tina Fey but this article was really interesting to me. How do you feel about ghostwriting? Do you think the average person realizes their favorite celeb probably didn't actually write his/her memoir? I didn't but I can't say that I was surprised when reading about it. Does it change the way to you feel about previous celeb memoirs you have read or make you less inclined to read them going forward?
Re: Ghostwriting
I always assume that if a famous person wrote it, it's ghostwritten. Being a writer, even a writer telling stories of your own life, is hard. The words have to flow, the ideas have to become real to the reader. It's a talent that requires a lot of practice, and education, and a love of reading things that other people wrote to make yourself better. Even with an excellent editor, I don't think that people famous for other feats (athletes, actors, scientists, businessmen) would be able to accomplish writing a book that others would want to read without help. The exception might be someone who is famous for telling their own stories or having a way with words but in another venue -- songwriters, comedians, politicians -- but would they have the time to write a book while people still care enough about them to read it?
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On the whole, though, I'm not generally interested in celeb memoirs.
And sometimes the ghostwriter doesn't even matter - I read Tommy Lee's Tommyland and Slash's Slash, which were written with the same dude, and what a difference the subject makes! I nearly didn't pick up Slash because Tommyland was just so awful, but I'm glad I did, because it was really good.
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