This was for a YA sci-fi story, which I thought would be out of my comfort zone, but I found it a lot easier to write than I thought. I was given the preceeding chapter, so I knew what I'd be working from, and an outline in the form of a few paragraphs which I'd extend. What was interesting was that I was asked to
Although it was only one chapter, I wanted it to be as good as possible, of course. This gave me a dilemma, of sorts - part of a good story is having fleshed out characters, but they weren't really my characters to add depth to, and I didn't want to contadict anything the main writer had in mind for his characters. But then I figured the story would be read over and edited as a whole, and homogenised, so anything not fitting it could be tweaked.
What I thought would be more of a challenge would be using the right writer's voice; J.R.R. Tolkien, Terry Pratchett and Lewis Carroll have all written children's fantasy for example, but if they shared writing chapters in a book it'd be a bit jarring as you move from each writer's contribution. So of course I wanted to capture the write voice, as the whole point of a ghost writer is
And an edit or two later that was that. I sent it to the client, who to my relief was very happy with what I'd written. :)
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