As someone who's dream is to write my own book it really disheartens me that someone will not put their all into writing a book and fast tracking the process so that someone else does some or all of the work and get zero credit for it. We do not know how much influence the ghostwriter had on Girl Online and this isn't a personal attack on Zoella herself because it's a bigger problem than that and i have nothing against Zoella and what she does. The thing that annoys me the most is the fact Zoe didn't let her viewers know she used a ghostwriter and made out she wrote the book by herself when in fact she could have put minimal effort into the writing of the book.
People who put their all into writing a book and spend years perfecting their writing technique, story lines and characters and then don't get to publish their work are the people i feel sorry for because maybe we won't get the chance to read an amazing book. Writing your own book can take a good year or longer and isn't something you can rush.
Books in my opinion are so personal because they are normally written by one author and that one author has most probably put their life into that book and it's such an amazing feeling when you can recognise all the hard work they've put into every aspect of the book.
Even though Zoe didn't tell her viewers she didn't have help with writing the book as someone who watches her vlogs frequently it was evident that she had help because it was written so quickly and she is always busy with youtube events, moving out with her boyfriend and getting a dog however it would've been nice for her to state that.
We also have to realise that without people like Zoe who sell because they're a brand means that penguin the company who published her book have more money to be able to publish books from the niche market which gives readers more variety of books to choose from which is only a good thing.
The biggest problem with ghostwriting in my opinion is that if it wasn't for someone stating Zoe had help writing her book then we would've never known as a fact that she had used a ghostwriter and got all the credit for writing Girl Online. This also means anyone who can afford a qhostwriter can write a book with people believing they wrote it all themselves. Books will then become less valuable as it becomes more popular for people to produce books in such a meaningless way.
When we read a book we want to see the progress of the storyline and characters and recognise metaphors with hidden meanings, so when we read a book that has been rushed and is quite predictable we feel extremely disappointed and outraged that we spent approx £10 on a piece of average work that we know hasn't been thought over much.
Let me know what you think and if you enjoyed Girl Online or thought it was very average plus your opinion on ghostwriting.
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