How Ghostwriters Research for Books They Didn’t Live Themselves

Ghostwriting means writing for someone else convincingly as if you are them. It can be a CEO’s business journey, or a Memoir on someone’s life. It should sound like them, and to make it convincing, you have to follow certain key points. What is the key point? It is the research. How you should write that can convince someone, yes!!! It is the voice of the author, and beautifully, they have shared their own life journey. This is what you should do as a ghostwriter. 

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1. Listening is the key point: Always listening plays an important role in ghostwriting. How attentively you listen to the conversation between the client and you. You should do so well that you capture the inner voice of the client and imagine it. 

   • If I were in that place, how would I imagine a certain scenario?

   • How would I write a certain scene if I were in his place? 

     That is the crucial point of the research before ghostwriting. 

   
   

2. Background Research: Pay attention to the novel background. In what time is the book situated?

   • Is it the current situation or in the 80s, 90s, 20s?

   • Is it in early independence time?

   • Is it situated in historical time?

 If yes, research on the attire they wear, what ornaments they used to prefer, what food they like to consume, because all of this is going to be used when you are writing a book. 

3. Genre and expectation: You have to be confident about the genre you are working on. 

   • What will the readers have to imagine while reading the novel? 

   • Is it going to be a successful publishing or not?

   • Are you confident in writing the genre you picked? 

     These are the questions that occur while you are researching. 

4. Character voices: While writing a novel, you have so many characters to write. So you have to research how well you can give every character who plays a role in the novel. And it should be different for each character. If the character is the main then his voice should hold power according to the scene, and if you are writing a character who doesn’t appear much, you can never waste your time arranging a certain set up for it.

5. Emotions Arrangement: The important part of the research is trying to figure out the emotions of the characters keenly, so that it can lead the novel. It is an invisible arrangement. It doesn’t appear on top like the character, but slowly makes its place in the inner thoughts of characters. 

   
   

Final thoughts: 

Researching something can make or break things. It always sounds unnecessary, but in world-building, you always need to analyse the characters, their nature, their emotions, other characters' emotions, and the final thought, which is complete research about them.

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