Hey Witty! So I've so many things to say to u but I think I'll start from the simplest one. I simply ADORE ur writing! As an aspiring writer ur stories have been one of my biggest inspiration ❤ Also I recently figured that you're a ghostwriter.I was not sure what that meant so I looked it up and dont quite understand? If you're writing something then y isn't it published under ur name? Especially with such an amazing writer as u! (Ps. This is probably a dumb question but ur real name Witty? :P)
Thank you ;O; That’s really sweet, and it always makes me super soft when I can inspire people to continue their creative dreams <33 I know that sounds real cheesy and cliche, but it’s true. It makes me feel like I’m impacting people and leaving my mark that goes far beyond just me.
Typically, ghost writers don’t write their own works. It IS, in a way, my writing. The small details of a scene are mine. How I bring it to life is mine. The phrasing. The words. The flow. But when I work as a ghost writer, I’m given an outline. I then write the story based on that outline. It’s not my plot. It’s not my characters. Truthfully, I don’t mind that it’s not published under my name bc I have no real connection to them. They’re very basic romance novels with very archetypal characters. It’s like writing an article and having it published under your company’s name. I’m paid for my time and my words, and then I move on and don’t worry about it anymore. I don’t feel like I’m being slighted bc I have no emotional attachment or investment in them. I’ve been told that they’re very good, and that fundamentally, my writing style doesn’t change. But it honestly feels like I turn my brain off when I write them, bc I don’t care about the characters. A friend of mine once read one of my ghost written romance novels and said “I can tell it’s your writing, but it just feels... flat compared to your fanfics.” I am very careful not to put pieces of myself into my ghost written works because they’re not mine. Things that I write for me, my fanfics that you read, the things on my patreon, those have pieces of me in them. Those are written works I care about. Ghost writing just kinda feels like writing something for school.
Also, it isn’t one person hiring me and claiming fame from my writing. It’s technically a company that hires outliners, editors, and ghost writers, and all the work is published under a couple crafted and fake aliases. So the name my work is published under isn’t even a real person, and it’s published alone side work from other ghost writers.
As for the name Wittyy, you ask if it’s my “real” name, and that’s a bit of a.... odd topic? Is it my birth name? No. Is it what’s on my driver’s license? No. Is it what my parents, family, and friends from high school and college call me? No. But is it my REAL name? I would say, yes. It’s the name every friend I’ve made in the past five years calls me. It’s what my best friends (my friend family, if you will) call me. It’s what my girlfriend calls me. When I visit my gf in denmark, it’s what their family calls me. It’s what I introduce myself as when I’m in denmark. It took literally 3 years for my gf’s family to realize I had a birth name that wasn’t Wittyy. HONESTLY, I feel more like Wittyy than I feel like my birthname. That’s a name that I don’t like using, and it feels like an entirely different person. It’s much the same way for Sora (@wolfpainters). So no, it’s not my birth name. But it IS my real name bc it’s the name I go by 90% of the time.