author anonymous
i treat writing, as well as all my blogs, as a kind of learning experience, a kind of training the same way i would take a course in photography or knitting. it’s something i enjoy doing and i would love every opportunity to hone it. after all, although there’s nothing wrong with being one, what fun is there in remaining mediocre?
on occassion, i have been tapped to write articles for other websites. the bounty isn’t much, most just enough for bus fare, and i’ve even taken assignments pro bono. that’s not the issue. what i find less comfortable with is ghost writing. you whip something up and somebody else takes credit for it. of course you enter an agreement of relinquishing all copyright and such legalese even before buckling down to work. and, naturally, you get compensated for your efforts. but how much compensation would be enough for you to relinquish all claims to something you made? how much is the vanity of seeing your name on the by-line worth?
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One Response to “author anonymous”
December 22nd, 2005 at
i’d rather be compensated less (even nothing) than not see my name on the by-line of something that i wrote. each one of my write-up is born from under my gut, so i guess i’ll never be a ghost writer, not even for the big bucks.