5 Reasons Why You Should Use a Storyteller to Help You Write Your Book

Are you planning on writing your book and then slide it into a drawer where it can collect dust? Of course not! Researching, outlining, writing and editing a book is an enormous task with a huge investment of time, energy, brain-power and emotion attached. A writer can help write your book and make it into a perfect presentation, but a storyteller can take it to another level.

1. Storytellers Tell Your Story

If the world could only see what you can see and know what you know, they would snatch it up in a minute, right? Of course they would! You just have to find a way to make them see what you see and know what you know.

When you sit down to research, outline and write a book, you do it because you have a story to tell. Regardless of which field you’re in or what subject your book covers, there is a story behind it and a motivation behind why you want to take on such a monumental task. A storyteller will dig into that story in order to reach your readers on that deeper level and tell your story.

2. Storytellers Stir Up An Emotional Response.

Hunter S. Thompson said, “Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing?” It is even truer with writing. If you want someone to react a certain way to what you are sharing with the world in your book, you have to get their blood racing.

Connected to the motivation and the story behind the story is the ability of a storyteller to stir up an emotional response to your story. It’s obvious that you want to draw an emotional response from a reader when writing fiction, but why should that type of response be limited to novels? Storytellers are familiar with and expert at utilizing various literary devices to elicit an emotional response.

3. Storytellers Know How To Keep Your Audience Interested

Have you ever read a novel that keeps you up all night turning from one page to the next simply because you have to know what happens next? Have you had the same experience with a book on planning for your retirement? Probably not.

By stirring up an emotional response, storytellers hook your audience (readers) interested in your topic. Within the storyteller’s toolbox are a number of ways to avoid the dullness that your readers typically experience when reading non-fiction books. Keeping your readers engaged from beginning to end is something that you definitely want to accomplish.

4. Storytellers Write With A Deeper Purpose In Mind

We’ve all read or heard of the stories of Aesop, Hans Christian Anderson and the Brothers Grimm. They were consummate storytellers that have survived down through the centuries. Why? Because the stories they told had a deeper purpose behind them.

A storyteller can help draw out the deeper purpose in your story so that it leaves a lasting impression. Besides stirring up your readers’ passion and keeping them engaged in your story, a storyteller works at drawing your readers to a specific goal or purpose.

5. All Storytellers Are Writers, but Not All Writers Are Storytellers

When you watch fireworks on Independence Day, New Years Eve or during some other celebration where they are used, which ones leave the lasting impression? They’re all fireworks, right? Yet, not all of them leave a lasting impression when you walk away.

Just so, writers do an adequate job of communicating the content of a book or article to their readers. There command of the written word and its use is what sets them apart from those who are not quite as adept at writing. Storytellers are artists who paint with words and create mental pictures in the minds of your readers. By crafting your story in a unique way that envelops all of your passion, you will leave a lasting impression upon those who have read it.

Conclusion

If you are considering writing a book to promote your brand, to communicate some new discovery you’ve made, to record your biography for posterity or have an idea for the next great bestselling thriller, but don’t have the expertise, time or patience to get done, why not hire a storyteller. By doing so, you can insure that your book will be read rather than be stuffed in a file drawer or placed on a bookshelf to gather dust. Put the passion and purpose of your story into a colorfully crafted work of art that will leave a lasting impression by hiring a storyteller to help tell your story.

Is Ghostwriting Ethical? Dispelling Your Misunderstandings

You, just like most people, probably hesitate when it comes to using a ghostwriter to help you get the story in your head into a format that can be shared with your clients, potential clients or the wide world. There is some lingering doubt as to the ethics of using a ghostwriter, after all, your book, your article and your web site content should be your own words, right? Let’s review some common reasons why you might need a ghostwriter and dispel some of the misunderstandings you might have about it.

I Don’t Have Time to Write a Book

I used to work in the corporate world too and I work independently now. Believe me; I know what time constraints are. I’ve been a writer for almost 40 years, but I didn’t write my first book until I wrote one for a client 6 years ago. In 40 years, I had more than a dozen books started, but never finished. If someone who loves to write, and knows how, doesn’t have enough time to write a book, then why should you expect you to write a book?

There’s a simple phrase I like to use, “Starting a book doesn’t make you a writer, finishing a book makes you a writer.”

Let me ask a simple question. Do you have time to do your taxes? Many people don’t, so what do they do? They hire an accountant to do their taxes. The accountant takes all of the receipts and documents that are given to him or her and does what he or she does best, freeing up their clients to do what they need to do instead of laboring over doing their taxes.

Ghostwriters are the accountants of the literary world. 

As a ghostwriter, I take your receipts (ideas) and prepare them into a return (book), freeing you up to do what you need to do instead of laboring over writing a book. Is that any more unethical than what an accountant does?

I Don’t Know How to Write a Book

Most people don’t know how to write a contract either. There are technical skills, knowledge, understanding and tricks of the trade that the average person doesn’t understand about the law. Your ignorance or lack of skill in legal matters gets you into all sorts of trouble if you make certain contractual agreements without the technical skill to do so. What do you do?

Because you need professional help with something for which you lack skill, you hire an attorney. Do you consider that unethical?

 Who Owns Your Ideas?

That question probably caught you off-guard. It might take an example to help you understand why I put it in this post. Let’s suppose corporation Skimpy Pants needs a new design for their new line of capri pants. What do they do? They go to Jenny in the design department and tell her to come up with a new design. Jenny creates the new design, pitches to the owners of Skimpy Pants and the new design becomes Skimpy Pants Capris.

The Skimpy Pants Capris are not Jenny’s Capris, nor are they Skimpy Pants Capris by Jenny, Skimpy Pants Capris with Jenny, Skimpy Pants Capris As Ordered To Be Designed By Jenny. Jenny gets paid to do a job, design capri pants, and the company does the marketing, receives the credit for designing the greatest capri pants in the world, and they reap the profits from what they hired Jenny to do. Is that unethical? Not really, because Jenny knows that she’s trading her skill for a salary.

When you hire a ghostwriter, the idea is yours and remains yours. All you do, in essence, is hire someone to provide you with a product that you need, but don’t have the time or skill to produce for yourself. The idea is yours, you market it as yours, you receive the credit for writing the bestseller and you reap the profits.

Ghostwriting is no more unethical than what corporations do every day. I work under a non-disclosure agreement with a work for hire contract that is absolutely no different than what corporations expect from their creative employees.

Conclusion

Ghostwriting is no different than hiring an accountant or attorney to do the things that you do not have the time or skill to do. Ghostwriting your book is no more unethical than having an accountant do your tax return or an attorney write your business contract. Most ghostwriters do what they do because they love to write and they have the necessary skills to do so, they trade their talent for cash, just like everyone else, and they don’t worry over getting credit for what they did. If your view of ghostwriting was what was keeping you from finishing your book, there is no reason for you to continue to wait. Contact me today and let me tell your story.

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