What Writing Other People’s Stories Taught Me About My Own

Hello, dear readers,

This is one of my favorite topics to talk about because my work as a ghostwriter over the past seven years gave me the foundation to write a novel I’m genuinely proud of.

Of course, while writing The Puppet King, there were moments when I was afraid, moments when I cried, and moments when I doubted my own abilities completely. But now that the book is finished and fully edited, it has become something I cannot wait to finally share with all of you.

And honestly, a huge part of that is thanks to ghostwriting.

More than anything, it taught me discipline. It taught me how to write every single day. How to understand the structure of a story. How to create narratives that feel organized, emotionally engaging, and purposeful.

Of course, none of that happened overnight. And even now, not everything comes out perfectly every single time. But over the years, I learned how to translate ideas and emotions into words more naturally and more clearly.

Because in my opinion, every story has rhythm. And if you never learn how to feel that rhythm, writing becomes much harder.

I often compare writing to music. A strong story is a balance between description, dialogue, inner thoughts, and action. It moves between long and short sentences, quiet moments and tension, emotional pauses and movement.

And once you begin to understand that rhythm, you start knowing when a scene needs dialogue, when it needs silence, when it needs description, and when it simply needs emotion. And that’s not something you learn from theory alone.

You can read hundreds of books about writing and memorize every storytelling rule imaginable, but theory will never replace practice. To become good at something, you have to do it consistently. Working with different clients and their stories forced me to write every day, experiment with ideas, and constantly step outside of my comfort zone.

I had to research fantasy magic systems, criminal organizations for mafia stories, character psychology, political structures, historical conflicts, and countless other topics. Honestly, my Google search history sometimes looks deeply concerning. 😀

But that’s also one of the most beautiful things about storytelling — you never stop learning.

Every genre, every project, and every story teaches you something new. And very often, the stories that seem farthest from your comfort zone become the ones that help you grow the most.

And because of all those years of writing, I was finally able to create characters in The Puppet King who feel real to me. Characters who suffer, fall apart, stand back up again, and reveal what human beings are capable of when they are pushed to their limits.

Because in the end, every story we tell, even the ones filled with magic, kingdoms, and fictional worlds, always comes back to something deeply human - fear, pain, hope, survival...

And maybe that’s what ghostwriting taught me more than anything else. Not just how to write stories for other people, but how to finally understand the kind of story I wanted to tell myself.

If you’d like to follow the journey of the book I am writing and see how it’s coming together, you can find more here:

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But if you want to, you can see more about my work as a ghostwriter here:

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