You hire a professional biography writer because you are too close to the subject.

There are several reasons why it is challenging to write a story one is too close to. It is hard to be objective about anything personal. Sometimes a stranger can do a better job, especially writing your autobiography.

If it’s your story, you might not be able to recognize what is important and what is just important to you. In some cases, there are things that are just too emotional for you to write. A ghostwriter who is compassionate, but also dispassionate, can write an authentic manuscript without the barrier of her own emotions.

If the story is about somebody close to you, such as your mother or father, a best friend, a grandparent or even a son or daughter, your love for them might cloud your objectivity. Or they might not want to have somebody so close to them writing their memoirs. Some people feel better confiding in strangers. That’s what ghostwriters are for.

You find a professional memoir ghostwriter when you can’t find the words.

Not everybody is a good cook. Not everybody is a good singer. And not everybody is a good writer. If you can’t find the words, because your writing skills are at a day-to-day level, a professional memoir writer can take your story up a notch.

Writing skills are not the only reason a person might not be able to find the right words. If a person is too attached to a story, if the memories are too real, sometimes words just don’t come. Sometimes an autobiography has to be written by somebody else.

You hire a biography writer to save time.

Life is busy. You are busy, and so is your favorite family member. Writing a memoir book takes weeks of solid writing. When can you find the time to sit down and write?

A professional biography writer can pull the important parts of your life story from you – your experiences, your relationships, your values and your feelings. Then, while you’re busy doing life, your writer can be busy writing your life.

You hire a memoir ghostwriter to get organized.

Let’s face it, you’ve done so much in your life. You’ve had so many ups and downs. There might have been abuse. There might have been heartaches. There might have been success and victory and great deeds. How do you cram a lifetime in 40,000 words or 60,000 words?

A professional ghostwriter is adept at organizing your information. She is expert autobiography writer. She can boil down the details to create a compelling story that means something to you, but doesn’t flow over into 100,000 or 200,000 words.

Everybody’s life is about many things. But there are a few themes that ring the strongest, and usually one theme that can tie them all together. The best part about hiring a memoir writer for your biography is that he can give your life story a cohesive theme that makes sense even to a casual reader.

You hire a memoir writer as a gift.

”Happy birthday, Dad. We hired a ghostwriter to help you write your autobiography. We think you’ve had an interesting life, and we want to pass your story down to our children and grandchildren.”

Can there be more personal a gift, showing more respect and affection, than to write a book on a person’s life?

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Whether this book is about you or your grandmother, your niece or a total stranger you just happen to admire, the information the writer will need is the same. Here are some key aspects of any life needed to write your biography.

1. What is your life about?

Every book, every movie, every poem is about something. There is a story and there is a theme. There is always a lead character, and that character’s life is about something. No matter how complex the character, there is one key aspect that defines his life and his story.

Working with a memoir writer means letting them distill that central message. There will be other subthemes and subplots, but there will be one overarching theme. This is what will define you to your readers. This is what they will remember long after they’ve forgotten all the details.

2. Focus on your values.

Make sure that your memoir ghostwriter knows what your key values are, because these need to shine through all parts of the manuscript.

• Tell your biography writer what relationships you (or the person you are writing about) value most.
• Tell your biography writer what attitudes you (or the person you are writing about) value most.
• Tell your biography writer what things you (or the person you are writing about) value most.
• Tell your biography writer what morals or ethics you (or the person you are writing about) value most.

All the stories, all the events, all the interactions in your book will be cast in light of these values. An important way to work with a biography ghostwriter is to make sure they understand your values.

3. Focus on relationships.

All stories are about people. Although the central character in a biography is that one person you are writing about, the chemistry of the story is what happens between that person and the other people in their life.

Sometimes those relationships are within a person. Sometimes the story is about a person’s inner turmoil. But there are always interactions with a love interest or a parent or somebody who affects how the main subject of the story feels, acts, reacts and interacts.

4. What are your best anecdotes?

Ultimately, a life story is a series of events, of stories that happen one after the other.

Some anecdotes are funny.

Some anecdotes are sad.

Some anecdotes are motivational.

Some anecdotes give a window into your soul.

Some anecdotes are drawn out over time, comprising a number of smaller stories.

Make sure your biography or autobiography writer has all the stories that make up your life. The big ones and the small ones can all help advance your life theme and showcase your values and relationships. You can hire a memoir writer, but you can’t hire a you. If the stories are in your head, you have to share them.

5. What are your successes, your proudest moments?

It probably is unnecessary to mention that you should share your proudest moments with your ghostwriter. The same goes for whomever you are writing about. These successes and victories are what make the person worthy a subject for a biography.

6. What are your biggest regrets?

This might seem counterintuitive. Why dwell upon losses and failures?

Because that’s what makes you or your subject human. It is how you deal with these challenges and rise back up that makes your life interesting. Whether the challenges come from things you’ve done, things you failed to do or things that were done to you, those challenges make your life noteworthy. The same goes for anybody’s story, so whether this is an autobiography or the biography of a mentor or relative, let’s see the challenges and the weaknesses.

7. Work with a timeline.

Before you hire a memoir writer, prepare a timeline of everything that happened in your life. The more detailed your timeline, the better your writer will be able to follow your life story. Sometimes the details are important, so make sure to list everything.

Don’t send a flurry emails filled with letters and depositions and email trails all bunched up together. Send your ghostwriter each item individually, clearly marking the contents in the subject line of the email so that he can find it later. Then add the same subject line as a reference on your timeline.

8. Provide timely feedback to your writer.

Your memoir writer will send the drafts of each chapter. Then it’s up to you. Try to send feedback quickly, while your writer is still in flow, so that she can do revisions quickly and get on with the next chapter.

If work stops while you take time to review, the next chapter will be delayed. Any delay will interrupt the flow of the work. In the end, your manuscript will flow better and read better if you provide timely feedback to your ghostwriter.

Maybe you’ve agreed to keep writing while you review the content. If work continues while you review, timely feedback will reduce the backtracking that your ghostwriter will have to do. Once again, you’ll want to keep the writer in flow for the best manuscript possible.

If the writer ends up several chapters ahead of where you are with feedback, that could mean extra work for the writer and a less organized manuscript. The life story will read more like a road that gets patched over rather than having a single coat of fresh pavement.

How to find a memoir writer for hire

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