Education Ghostwritten Memoir - How Much Will It Cost

Of course, it's understandable that you should wonder how much a ghostwritten memoir will cost and how much you might be committing yourself to. Asking for a cost estimate for a co-authoring project is as sensible to ask as it is difficult to answer! Answering such a question is a bit like answering how long it takes to sail across the ocean. The honest answer is "I don't know." It depends on the winds, the currents, the sails used, the shape of the boat itself, how much weight the boat is carrying, whether the boat is piloted night and day, the skill of the crew in following the captain's lead, etc. You persist however in asking how much will it cost to have your memoir co-authored? It depends on variables: 1. how much rough material you can provide as well as the quality (insightfulness, completeness, coherence) of that rough material; 2. your ability to remember extensively during a brief period of time as opposed to over a longer period that requires re-writing and re-interpreting what has already been written (and not simply adding to it); 3. your ability to be active rather than passive. An active subject can write parts of the story to cut costs; 4. how easy you are to interview. Those who think through their material before an interview will provide their ghosts with more material than those who come cold; 5. your access to secondary material (news clips, journals, etc.) that can be used to generate text; 6. how much story you wish to reveal and include (as a rule, people start wanting a smaller project and once they are involved they realize this is a once-in-a-lifetime undertaking and decide to include all. This adds to the price). Here is a safety valve for you to control price. Provide a figure you would like to work within. When your ghost arrives at half that figure, you need to be advised of that. Your ghost and you together can estimate how far you are in covering the material of the memoir as you conceive it. Then your ghost can offer an estimate as to how much it will cost to finish the story (based on current rate of production). Your ghost can wrap up the story at any desired price-but s/he can't necessarily tell the whole story you wish to have written for that same price. Good luck working with your ghostwriter. custom essay