u/david29753

This was one of my weirdest experiences as a writer. Writing the memoirs of an Aussie drug and sex addict and his crazy adventures in Thailand and Cambodia. He was a real psycho, wavering between threatening me, insulting me, and being my best mate. He spewed out a long stream of disconnected memories over a few weeks and I had to make sense of it all. I am not sure if I believe it all, some of it is pretty outrageous, but he insisted it was all true. So anyway I finally finished it and published it, its on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. But what a wild ride....the guy was, and still is, a complete head case. I published it not quite under his name, but close to it, rather than mine.

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I am a writer, written some books about bar girls in SE Asia. A while ago got into an online argument with a guy who reckons he had been everywhere, done everything - ice addict, sexpat in Pattaya, prison time in Klong Prem, Cambodian gangsters, all sorts. So I said, that would make a great book. Long story short we wrote his memoir together - him writing a continuous stream of consciousness diahorea and me trying to organise it, make sense of it, and put it into chapters. Some of it was basic, some so outrageous I am not sure if I believe it all. Anyway it's finished and published. I am not here to advertise, just to say it was a weird experience, ghost writing the adventures of a drug addicted patty monger. Actually proofreading it I really enjoyed it, might read it again for fun. Let me know if anyone is interested.

I am a writer, written some books about bar girls in SE Asia. A while ago got into an online argument with a guy who reckons he had been everywhere, done everything - ice addict, sexpat in Pattaya, time in Klong Prem, Cambodian gangsters, all sorts. So I said, that would make a great book. Long story short we wrote his memoir together - him writing a continuous stream of consciousness diahorea and me trying to organise it, make sense of it, and put it into chapters. Some of it was basic, some so outrageous I am not sure if I believe it all. Anyway it's finished and published. I am not here to advertise, just to say it was a weird experience, ghost writing the adventures of a drug addicted patty monger. Actually proofreading it I really enjoyed it, might read it again for fun. Let me know if anyone is interested.

I finished my latest book last week, had a couple of read-throughs on my laptop, picked up some errors, fixed them. Then just to be sure I converted to epub and downloaded to my Kindle, to get the real 'reader' experience. Immediately picked up a missing word, 'shall' in the epigraph. Read it through, picked up some small errors (an 'an' instead of 'a', missing 'r' in 'angrier'). Read it through a second time, found some spacing errors I had missed before. Changed some phrases, the odd word here and there. Finally decided to publish and be damned, I could spend the rest of my life on this thing....any other new authors have this problem?