How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Market and Just Write | Literary Hub

After I became a freelancer, I also took on ghostwriting gigs. Ironically, there is possibly no more market-centric job than ghostwriting. I was hired to write something for someone with a platform-and that platform is the market. My responsibility was to please everyone but myself. I had to please the author, the literary agent, and the publisher, and often they're pleased by different and conflicting things. For someone who lives in fear of disappointing anyone, this was not a recipe for peace of mind. I felt less dread than I had before-sure I could lose a gig, but that wasn't the same as being fired-yet I was still aiming to meet a standard that wasn't my own.