Ghostwriting.
It might seem scary, or strange. That i feel like a ghost when you look right past, or through someone like me. It isn’t scary at all. Nor strange. It is actually decongesting, decompressing, no pressure at all, and then, relief ensues.
Looking past things, sometimes isn’t a slight. (In the slightest). It is sangria, to those of us who don’t like just wine. It becomes a pleasant congruence and takes the sting out of compromise.
I know how funny it is to not quite grasp, why people are really bellyached when they seem like “someone else” or turns in something that “doesn’t seem like theirs” - at first, i figured it was a cultural thing. Or a this-is-what-people-do-in-school thing. But, if i had been never to school with you - how can we really be certain?
But, we manage to arouse suspicion, as people.
All the time.
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I feel like i am born a black-hat magnet. It isn’t even funny. I think it’s a work / occupational hazard - since i worked with quants, and all the mega-A-types where any sign of creativity, spook people, and then (as if it were a huge offence), are maligned. (In that order.)
Writing, is a type of design-hack, that is truly handy where people like me, choose to use words.
Describing things, writing and drawing, and not using the tools that make shapes, and are mostly photoshop-adrift, express things with arabic numerals, instead of code, process or numbers.
I think it could be a common thing now- in the age of blogging, and when the boom of tech spaces arised in the millenia, i must have been bonked with the largest writing stick that left me the most writing nimbleness - another typified occupational hazard - and realised that papers are a thing since high school -white papers, term papers, travel forms, exam papers, and then when we think it was all over — at work, more papers.
A Ghost-Writer, is someone who writes for someone else. Sort of like a modern-day Cyrano (de Bergerac) who could write poems and letters to woo a person for someone else.
It becomes a socially endearing situation, type of work, or micro-moral endeavour - depending on what you use that for.
I think that authenticity is always hard-pressed if you are an actual Writer, of plays, or of commercial writing - who needs to write something commercially for money, but otherwise it would be pretty fantastic, for something that needed a social leg-up into let’s say, something as high as a grapevine-lined juliette balcony.
