# So would you? (A useless poll) **URL:** \ **Category:** And Now For That Latte\ **Created:** [February 18, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294 "2009-02-18T01:22:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wock](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Wock](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Wock)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/1 "2009-02-18T01:22:23Z")
Would you allow a well known author Ghost write for you? _Poll ([view on site](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/1))_ So if a well known author (Think Tom Clancy or Stephen King as example) came to you and offered to “ghost write” for you 3 novels would you let him or her? Or would you stick them a rigid caps lock and do all the work yourself? ---
**Author:** ![Apollo16](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Apollo16](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Apollo16)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 1:44am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/2 "2009-02-18T01:44:38Z")
NO! I don’t write for money. ::snort:: I laughed so hard I snorted. I write because I would simply die if I didn’t. I can’t remember who said that first, Asimov or Bradbury… should look it up. OK. I did. According to the quotations page: ``` I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. Isaac Asimov US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992) ``` Apollo16 ---
**Author:** ![Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/jaysen/32/16_2.png) [@Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Jaysen)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/3 "2009-02-18T01:45:33Z")
Can’t we just kick the dog without having to decide? ---
**Author:** ![xiamenese](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/xiamenese/32/23720_2.png) [@xiamenese](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/xiamenese)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 2:08am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/4 "2009-02-18T02:08:50Z")
Hmm … am I being a hypocrite? Since I spend much of my time when I’m not teaching editing stuff that other people have written, I guess I am a ghost-writer of sorts myself. And that provokes another thought, that one of my fears is that as far as everyone else is concerned, particularly here, what I am really is a disembodied, walking brain … that that’s all they see of me. Puts another slant on the notion of “ghost writer” 😮 Mark ---
**Author:** ![Wock](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Wock](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Wock)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 4:10am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/5 "2009-02-18T04:10:51Z")
> [@Jaysen](#): > > Can’t we just kick the dog without having to decide? I knew you would “ponder” this question for quite some time. (poor Vic-k) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PJS](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@PJS](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/PJS)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/6 "2009-02-18T04:52:51Z")
What would you do if Jhumpa Lahiri or Michael Chabon asked you to ghost write a novel for her/him? Which is the only kind of answer I can give to a beyond-the-pale hypothetical question. ps ---
**Author:** ![janra](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@janra](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/janra)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:03am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/7 "2009-02-18T05:03:12Z")
I see a question like that on the same level as the perennial NaNo FAQ, “can I just upload a file with a single word repeated 50,000 times?” Sure, other people might think I wrote a book. But I would know that I didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![vic-k](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/46a35a/32.png) [@vic-k](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/vic-k)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/8 "2009-02-18T08:13:50Z")
Impitoyable Mère de Lucifer!! What kind of question is that to ask a ghost writer!! 😮 Borborygmos!! to you sir! Le D 👿 ---
**Author:** ![pink](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@pink](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/pink)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/9 "2009-02-18T12:16:11Z")
I kicked the dog - partly for the sadomasochistic pleasure it would bring, and because I don’t think I would sell out… But I can’t be sure. (edited because typing on iPhone can produce some interesting effects when it doesn’t spell check in your style) ---
**Author:** ![vic-k](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/46a35a/32.png) [@vic-k](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/vic-k)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/10 "2009-02-18T12:35:21Z")
Those who write, because it`s in their blood, would still be writing, irrespective of whether or not some ghost writer had earned them fame and fortune. The money wouldn`t satisfy the craving. Your most feeble effort is a part of you. King`s contribution isn`t. So! what are you? Writer or schyster 😕 Take care Vic PS: > [@](#): > > Pink wrote: > I kicked the dog - partly for the sadomasochistic pleasure OUCH!! ---
**Author:** ![pink](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@pink](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/pink)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/11 "2009-02-18T13:39:57Z")
what is in my blood is mostly coffee at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![vic-k](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/46a35a/32.png) [@vic-k](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/vic-k)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/12 "2009-02-18T15:29:37Z")
Ahh, my naughty little pink, Does not, nurturing those germinating seeds of inspiration, for some wonderful narrative twist, short circuit your synapses, and fill your mind with the illusory smell of ozone, from arcing neurological electrons…just as much…as lusting after those big muscular hairy macho Aussie firefighters? Adieu Sweetness, adieu Le D 😈 ---
**Author:** ![vic-k](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/46a35a/32.png) [@vic-k](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/vic-k)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/13 "2009-02-18T15:59:19Z")
NOW THERE`S A THING! 😮 > [@Wock](#): > > (Think Tom Clancy or Stephen King as example) came to you and offered to “ghost write” for you 3 novels would you let him or her? “Him or her.” 😕😊 Do you know something the rest of us don`t? ---
**Author:** ![AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/amberv/32/13021_2.png) [@AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AmberV)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/14 "2009-02-18T16:47:13Z")
> [@](#): > > Taylor Smith, who began writing novels “out of sheer boredom when I was at home full time with my children,” calls herself “a sort of [color=red]Tom Clancy in drag” who draws on her experiences working in the intelligence community. > > Smith, who lives in Mission Viejo, writes primarily “stand-alone” non-series novels set in different arenas. [Hmm](http://www.press-enterprise.com/newsarchive/1998/12/20/914027187.html). ---
**Author:** ![vic-k](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/46a35a/32.png) [@vic-k](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/vic-k)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/15 "2009-02-18T18:13:55Z")
> [@AmberV](#): > > calls herself “a sort of Tom Clancy in drag” Yeah!! But does she ghost write? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![klcorridon](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/8797f3/32.png) [@klcorridon](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/klcorridon)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/16 "2009-02-19T03:07:29Z")
If Steven King offered to ghost write for me, I would be afraid. Very afraid. 😮 ---
**Author:** ![Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/jaysen/32/16_2.png) [@Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Jaysen)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 3:40am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/17 "2009-02-19T03:40:42Z")
Anyone find it odd that we would rather beat-up on a crippled dog than have an already famous person help us write a book? Either we really want to write or we really want to beat up on a dog. ---
**Author:** ![vic-k](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/46a35a/32.png) [@vic-k](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/vic-k)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 10:11am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/18 "2009-02-19T10:11:25Z")
> [@Jaysen](#): > > Anyone find it odd that we would rather beat-up on a crippled dog than have an already famous person help us write a book? Either we really want to write or we really want to beat up on a dog. C’est la vie mon brave, c`est la vie! Le D 😈 ---
**Author:** ![zikade](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/zikade/32/17597_2.png) [@zikade](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/zikade)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/19 "2009-02-20T17:59:17Z")
AT ONCE! Absolutely yes. Guess what, I don’t really like spending day after day in my study trying to get my thoughts and the story I’m writing synchonized. If there would be someone who could pick random thoughts out of my brain - or my balls, depending on the story, I s’ppose - and getting the story I wanted done - in opposition to the stories I really write - while I could stay on the beach the whole day, drinking cocktails while being entertained by…ah, well, not going to happen. [size=200]sigh[/size] [size=85]BTW: I wouldn’t kick a dog. Any dog. I happen to LIKE dogs, three or five legged…[/size] ---
**Author:** ![Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/jaysen/32/16_2.png) [@Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Jaysen)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294/20 "2009-02-20T18:29:43Z")
> [@zikade](#): > > [size=85]BTW: I wouldn’t kick a dog. Any dog. I happen to LIKE dogs, three or five legged…[/size] [size=85]So do I, but I have had some pretty bad experiences with dogs (who had bad owners) and had to kick a few just to keep my skin intact. But this isn’t about dogs as much as vic-k. The kick that he needs is in the pants. We are all still stuck in the brain. He has yet to find his wifi hot spot. What the heck!?! He needs to get back to work or endure the kicking! [/size] [Next page](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/so-would-you-a-useless-poll/5294.md?page=2)