Talk:Ghostwriters

But it can be a frustrating and thankless task. The astonishing skill required to construct articles and arguments for top-tier press, or to weave speeches that have the wit and incision to reduce the most intelligent of audiences to hoots of laughter, or lift them in rapturous applause, goes unnoticed and unrecognised by those outside his closest circle. What painter would allow another to sign his masterpiece? What composer allows another to take credit for his own dear melodies? Yet, for the ghostwriter, such heart-breaking humiliation is his daily bread. He is a long-suffering kindly, modest type. He spends hours deliberating over the form of his arguments, allowing himself the faintest whiff of satisfaction at the occassional perfectly-formed sentence or precisely-chosen word that falls from his fingers at the keyboard. And then in the very moment of his father-like pride he is forced to subject his new-born baby to the scrutinisation of another, who, if he approves, will adopt it as his own and take the credit for its finest features. In a grotesque parody of ancient Olympian punishment, the ghostwriter is chained alongside Prometheus, daily awaiting the vultures that will tear out his heart and stomach, forced to forge the highest art, and sign it with another's name. Pity the poor Ghostwriter whose fate is bitter anonymity. --

I relocated this to the talk page as the original starting link for the article is about ghostwriting in the context of using third parties and not the hardship of being a ghostwriter. So while I'm sure its tough as a ghostwriter this doesn't quite fit with the context I'm afariad -- bob