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Write your memoir or hire a ghostwriter?
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It comes down to skills, time and desire. Writing a memoir yourself can take a couple of years if you are not used to a writing schedule. If you are missing any one of the three, consider hiring a ghostwriter.
Key points
- Skills: not everyone is a writer, and that is fine.
- Time: a memoir is a big project.
- Desire: you have to want to do it.
Kate LeibfriedWriter and ghostwriter, Click Clack Writing · Guest presenter
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But time is definitely a big factor, and it also leads us to the third point, which is desire. Maybe you have the skills and the time, but you would rather be doing something else with your time. You would rather be traveling, you would rather be looking after grandkids or visiting friends or going to the theater. There might be a thousand other things that you would rather be doing than writing your own memoir. So, if one of those three pieces is missing, then I would seriously consider hiring a ghostwriter to write your memoir for you. But if you do have the skills, the time, and the desire, I would say yes, go ahead and give it a shot.
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