Creative Writers Are Artists
By Stu Leventhal
Art is used to show our opinions. Creative Writers wish to spur questioning that may lead us to better answers.
The Creative Writer tries out new ways of saying listen, I agree with you or pay attention, I disagree, and here’s why.
“Here is what I feel about the matter.”
Editors and publishers buy written works to display in their magazines or to sell on websites and on bookshelves that make statements about the kind of person they wish their audiences to think they and their companies are. “Here is the type of author we support.”
IMPORTANT: Businesses will hire you to tell their brand story. You speak for the company. You may get paid by the word or the writing project.
CEO's will hire you to be their Ghost Writer when they have things to say but they cannot write so well themself. They also hire Ghost Writers when they are too busy to write the story they wish told. As a Ghost Writer you are being paid to make the CEO or your client, look good as the author. Know that your name will not be mentioned. Whomever hired you to write, gets credit as the author.
REMEMBER: As a Ghost Writer you are not building a reader fan base for you or your writing. The fans will think your client wrote everything.
If you can make CEOs and Corporate Presidents sound great with your writing, you can earn a nice living as a Ghost Writer. Business Professionals pay writers hefty fees for penning their books.
TIP: Just being a great writer is not enough. You must get good at knowing who to send you writing to or few will ever get to read your stuff.
Sometimes a great writer seems to be talking directly to each individual reader, getting very personal. Other times he or she chooses to make a more general statement that applies to everyone the same.
TODAY’s ‘Writing’ TIP: Your goal is to get your reader to forget about the outside world fast, immediately, and to become absorbed in your scene.
Does your opening paragraph transfer me off my living room couch and onto the mountain top?
Disappear the library, where I am reading your story, and surround me by a midwestern saloon complete with all the rough and tumble characters who seem to be itching to start a barroom brawl.
TODAY’s WRITER’s CHALLENGE: Recall an incident from your past that was a turning point in your life. Can you tell us about that important moment using your favored form and style of creative writing?
HINT: If you are not sure how to get started, try thinking about what a Painter would focus on painting if given the same assignment. How would your favorite singer or band approach creating a song about the same topic?
Thinking outside of the art genre in which you are creating will force you to see more vividly the essence of the scene you wish to tell your readers about.
The Creative Writer tries out new ways of saying listen, I agree with you or pay attention, I disagree, and here’s why.
“Here is what I feel about the matter.”
Editors and publishers buy written works to display in their magazines or to sell on websites and on bookshelves that make statements about the kind of person they wish their audiences to think they and their companies are. “Here is the type of author we support.”
IMPORTANT: Businesses will hire you to tell their brand story. You speak for the company. You may get paid by the word or the writing project.
CEO's will hire you to be their Ghost Writer when they have things to say but they cannot write so well themself. They also hire Ghost Writers when they are too busy to write the story they wish told. As a Ghost Writer you are being paid to make the CEO or your client, look good as the author. Know that your name will not be mentioned. Whomever hired you to write, gets credit as the author.
REMEMBER: As a Ghost Writer you are not building a reader fan base for you or your writing. The fans will think your client wrote everything.
If you can make CEOs and Corporate Presidents sound great with your writing, you can earn a nice living as a Ghost Writer. Business Professionals pay writers hefty fees for penning their books.
TIP: Just being a great writer is not enough. You must get good at knowing who to send you writing to or few will ever get to read your stuff.
Sometimes a great writer seems to be talking directly to each individual reader, getting very personal. Other times he or she chooses to make a more general statement that applies to everyone the same.
TODAY’s ‘Writing’ TIP: Your goal is to get your reader to forget about the outside world fast, immediately, and to become absorbed in your scene.
Does your opening paragraph transfer me off my living room couch and onto the mountain top?
Disappear the library, where I am reading your story, and surround me by a midwestern saloon complete with all the rough and tumble characters who seem to be itching to start a barroom brawl.
TODAY’s WRITER’s CHALLENGE: Recall an incident from your past that was a turning point in your life. Can you tell us about that important moment using your favored form and style of creative writing?
HINT: If you are not sure how to get started, try thinking about what a Painter would focus on painting if given the same assignment. How would your favorite singer or band approach creating a song about the same topic?
Thinking outside of the art genre in which you are creating will force you to see more vividly the essence of the scene you wish to tell your readers about.
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