Ah, ghost-writers.  We get plenty of them nowadays.  Some are "actual" writers who are probably just making an extra income on the side, what with the economy as it is nowadays.  As for others who have come on board, only equipped with the researched facts, but no "talent" when it comes to writing an article, good or otherwise, "creativity" is sadly "lacking", or dare I say, completely "absent" in their writing.

Just pick a few articles online and you'll get the picture.  The subject matter sounds interesting, the facts within the article are substantially note-worthy.  But somehow, reading the whole piece comes across as "comical" somehow.  You sense immediately that the "writer" has been given the materials to work on but could not "thread" the words together to produce a decent article.  Or sometimes, it feels more like a translation from a foreign language - with grammatical errors and weird-sounding phrases which got "lost in translation" somehow?  Either way, it robs us of an "interesting read", if you know what I mean.

I for one do not profess to be a "great" writer, but I do try to ensure that my articles/blog posts have as few grammatical errors as possible and of course I do try not to make too many spelling mistakes (which I would normally correct afterwards after re-reading my publications).  I guess the "speed" of my typing and the "glare" from my laptop's computer screen are my "reasons", or should I say "explanations" for any mistakes appearing.  Ah, excuses, excuses, you say!!

Anyhow, ghost-writers have to make a living, so sometimes the blame is on the individual who hires them?  That they're not "quality" conscious, as opposed to

being just "quantity" conscious?  More articles means more $$, yes??

Now, just so there's no misunderstanding here.  I am all for "ghost-writing".  In fact, I will probably take that route one of these days, and when I do, I hope that I will do a "decent" enough job and not lower the "writing standard" as is the current situation lately (online-speaking ie).

Somehow, the "creative" aspect of written works is lost now that online writing is the everyday norm.  If you find them on "blog" websites, it is somehow more "tolerable" and possibly warrants some form of "forgiveness", considering the nature of its source.  After all, a blog is just an online "diary" and diaries are merely written "thoughts".  Random thinking ending up in written words - that's just what they are.

But when one is writing on articles catering to advice subjects for eg, one is expected to sound a little more "professional", won't you agree??  In order that the words sound more "convincing" and more "credible"??  Well, that's just what I think.  What do you think?

Let's take book publications as an example.  Before they are being published, they go through many re-writes and editings, right?  So, why not with online articles?  If there's no one enforcing the rule on online writing, let's all just place some form of standard on article writing on our own.  Let's raise the standard on our own.  That way, we can be proud of our contribution to its once "creative" label.

Once again, that's just my "random" thoughts at work here... this is after all, just a BLOG post, eh??