What would it look like if someone wrote a book about you?
This question certainly is very different from any question I've chosen to anwer so far.Those all showed my differences with the Far Right & my utter distain for our so called President.In a nutshell my life has been one of two extremes.I grew up lower middle class income,but very happy.I had lots of friends & a loving family. At 25 I was married to a beautiful 21 year old very intelligent girl.We had two gorgeous children & my successful career completed our American Dream,or so I thought.At six my youngest was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.Shortly afterwards my wife started a decline to an undiagnosed neurological disease.We lost our insurance & our American Dream turned nitghtmare,continued.My worst suspicion was confirmed ,my oldest also had the incurable neurological disease. My finances depleted over the 16 years of no insurance & I guess you could say my life discribed would be American Dream to Reversal in Fortune.Both of those highlighted by what meant more than anything to me,my family.
How are you able to tell if a book is ghostwritten?
The point of ghostwriting is to give the author complete credit for a book. Often you can do a wikipedia search on the book or series, and it might come up (I think if you look up R.L. Stine's books or the Nancy Drew series, they'll tell you that they were often ghostwritten) but otherwise there is no way to tell unless you actually write the author who was taking credit for the book. But normally the point is to finish writing something or to add books to huge series, or to write for someone who can't, so there is no reason for there to be proof of a ghostwriter. The ghostwriters get paid, and that's all that they need. For more information, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwriter...
Did you know that a bounty hunter named Paul wrote 15 books of the New Testament?
Before he appointed himself to become an Apostle after Jesus "contacted him from the dead", Paul hunted down Christians and captured them so they could be tortured and killed. This man personally wrote 15 of the 27 books of the New Testament and also could have had an influence on the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Don't you think something is very wrong with the fact that some guy wrote more than half the New Testament, without ever meeting Jesus personally? Oh yeah, by the way, the other 11 Apostles rejected Paul and other disciples tried to kill him.
Why Does Everyone Think They Can Write A Book?
Once again, this is not about killing dreams, or keeping people from writing. It's about the plain and simple fact that not everyone can get a book published. I may never get published, and I accept that. I will keep writing, however, and encourage others to do so, because writing is one of those great and wonderful things that anyone can attempt and that can help on so many levels. I realize that. What does irritate me is the cheapening of this art. Toni Morrison is an amazing writer; Stephenie Meyer is not, although they both have a decent education. Likewise, the book "Same Kind Of Different As Me" is an amazing text, written partially (BY HIM, not a ghostwriter) by a man who never finished high school, to my recollection. There are those cases, yes, the rare example has shown through. This does not change the fact that most people are not capable of doing it. Our society has become so intent on coddling people that no one wants to say it, plain and simple. That attitude hurts all
Who wrote the bible? "ignorant sheep herders" is who...?
Ok, so a recent question asked who wrote genesis(but I put it more politely)...and an answerer said "ignorant sheep herders"... What are they ignorant of? I could call you an ignorant non-sheep herder...I mean, do you know what percent protein a sheep needs? Do you know how many months a sheep carries the lamb for? Do you know the different types of sheep and how to judge whether a sheep is a good breeder or not? Do you what disease a sheep has just by looking at it, and then know which medicine to give it? I didn't think so...so who is the ignorant one in sheep herding? Sheep herders or non-sheep herders?
What do you call people in a book, by their name, rank, etc..?
Writing about a real person, last name Wilson, known him for years and always wrote Wilson. He was recently promoted to Sergeant.. Do I write Sarge now, Sergeant Wilson, or keep it Wilson in my writing...? And others I met as Sarge and now have a different rank but I don’t really wanna get my readers confused with so many names, “Sergeant Wilson” then next time I see him few years later its suddenly “Captain Wilson”... (I dont have all their first names so that wont work..) I also know a couple Wilsons, couple Rogers, couple Johns, etc, so I dont wanna be gettin readers confused.. I still want to take “note” of their rank though, any help..?