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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
Not necessarily. I know a writer who wrote editorials for years (political ones). He was hired to write a POV he did not personally agree with. He is also a trad published author who did the editorials to support his financial situation because the fiction didn't sell enough.
That is exactly my point. And I was told this BY THE AUTHOR, not a third party. He blogged about it after he quit. He also wrote ghost books and often had to write POVs he did not agree with.
So in some cases, they are one and the same: Paid for work. I seriously doubt he is the only one who did it. He also wrote political speeches on a couple of occasions. Paid for work.
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I'm ready to tear my hair out. The difference is, when you are a ghostwriter or a speechwriter, or you are hired by a newspaper to write editorials, you are not pretending to be independently giving your own views.