In this blog, I have taken quite a bit of time to discuss the pitfalls of hiring ghostwriting companies. But more and more individuals are creating websites and advertising their services online. Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of these sites are replete with poor phrasing and both major and minor grammatical errors: sentence fragments, misplaced modifiers, run-on sentences, comma splices, subject-verb agreement errors, capitalization and punctuation errors, misspellings, and so many more.
Here's the rub: if someone needs a ghostwriter because he or she doesn't have good language skills, it's unlikely that the individual will spot these huge red flags that a ghost is not a competent writer. It's a Catch-22. You need someone who can write well, but you can't spot the errors in order to see who writes well.
When I first became a full-time ghostwriter, I had about fifteen online competitors. Today, there are tens of thousands of people posting resumes or adding websites to Google's database. The postings at elance, odesk, and upwork are especially bad when it comes to misuse of language, as well as grammatical errors sitting smack dab in the first paragraph of the resume.
But the mistakes can be found on almost any site, including ones for those people who charge from $75,000 to $250,000 to write your book. If people can't demonstrate the basic elements of style or display a mastery of Grammar101, they should be in a different line of work.
And that's what this blog is about: online ghostwriting is mostly an industry filled with bad or inexperienced writers.
~William Hammett
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