The practice or profession of writing material for someone else who will receive public credit and be known as the author.
Gerund/present participle form of 'ghostwrite,' created by adding '-ing' to the base verb. Reflects the modern professionalization of invisible authorship in the 20th-21st centuries.
Ghostwriting raises fascinating ethical questions: if you ghostwrite a book for someone, whose ideas are in it—yours, theirs, both? Some ghostwriters say they contribute so much that they're essentially co-authors who agreed to vanish.
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