Why most first drafts are summaries
What I learned ghostwriting a memoir that had to grow six times in size
A few months ago I started ghostwriting a memoir for a man in his fifties. He’d been in a band on the Wirral in the early nineties. The band hadn’t quite made it, but they had a story worth telling.
His draft was 4,000 words.
The finished manuscript is 25,000.
I want to walk you through what happened in between, because the same problem that made his first…
