Hi Folks:
I’ve been away from the ghostwriting world for a while. Since last September I’ve been concentrating on teaching in an Alternative Education High School, and I haven’t had the time to focus on ghostwriting.
It’s been a year of growth as I’ve been able to learn the many nuances of being in a classroom. Teaching is very difficult, but it’s rewarding. There are times when the students’ minds click and finally understand a new concept or theme. Watching that happen, and understanding that someone is learning something new about the world, is utterly fascinating. Not only do they get to experience the world differently, but you, as the teacher, get to see how students take new concepts and reinvent them through their own experience. So not only do the students learn, but the teacher is constantly learning anew. It really is an interesting process.
In many ways it’s exactly like the writing process itself. As a writer it’s important to let ideas flow and form themselves as you write. In that way you don’t get in the way of yourself, constantly editing yourself, criticizing yourself, inhibiting a certain looseness in the mind that is essential to new ideas. Then afterward, when the initial writing is done, you can go back and see what you’ve written. Often in my own writing I’m surprised to see how I explored an idea, my word choices, and especially the tones and rhythms. Then at this point I can go back and take what has been written, and form it into something else, possibly what I want it to be (or what I think I want it to be). But as with teaching, I take what I’ve learned (the initial writing) and turn that into something else (when the students reinvent). I love the dynamic because it’s never static.
So now I’m looking forward to focusing on clients again. I will still be busy in the coming months, but I look forward to working with writers who want to sharpen their manuscripts. I imagine I’ll concentrate on writers who need editing more so than actual writing and inventing. So if you need an edit, let me know! But whatever you’d like, let me know.
Ciao,
Nathan
