When hiring a ghostwriter, the biggest impediment to finding the right one for you is that you might not be able to recognize the potential ghostwriter's bad writing. A majority of online ghostwriting websites are riddled with poor phrasing and grammatical errors. This is when hiring a qualified professional becomes a Catch-22. If you need a writer because you can't do the composition yourself, you may not be able to see that you're considering hiring a ghostwriter who is committing high school level writing errors.
On most websites I've examined, as well as resumes on ghostwriting clearing house sites such as odesk, elance, and upwork, it's easy to spot nonstandard usage, misspellings, capitalization errors, run-on sentences, sentence fragments, subject-verb agreement errors, omitted words, missing word endings, tense shifts, and dozens of other errors that a professional writer would never make in a polished advertisement. Many don't even know the difference between to-too-two, it's-its, your-you're, or there-their, they're.
What you don't know can cost you a lot of money. Many people pay good money to have a manuscript ghostwritten, only to have someone tell them later that it's filled with errors. Let the buyer beware.
~William Hammett
Contact: wmhammett@aol.com
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