Boo
Just recently, I got my first telecommuting job as a ghost writer. I see myself as a charming cross between Caspar of cartoon fame and A Christmas Carol’s Spirit of Christmas Past as played by Carol Kane in Scrooged, hovering ethereally over my keyboard every day. Ohhhhh, yeah….
Ghost writing, like blogging, is something I didn’t understand people doing until I did it myself. I mean, why in the world would someone post their creative writing in a blog instead of submitting it to magazines and getting paid for it? Similarly, why would writers put time and effort into writing something that isn’t going to be published under their own name? It makes total sense to me now, of course, though I’d have a hard time saying why or how –not unlike explaining the curious gastronomic appeal of oysters to someone who’s never eaten one or why I believe in God to an agnostic or why certain pieces of music that don’t affect other people always make me cry. Both blogging and ghost writing appeared to me as proverbial opportunistic door knockers and I’m surprised at how much I enjoy doing two things I never thought I would.
Like the old saying goes, ”Never say never.”
Hmmm…
Now just exactly what else have I said “never” about???
–phoebe kate