Most of the friction in ghostwriting comes from unstated expectations. Here is how I run a project, so there are none.

The brief

I need three things before I start:

1. The audience. A paper for a supervisor and a paper for a journal are different documents.
2. The sources. Whatever you have — notes, transcripts, half-drafts, a reading list.
3. The deadline. The real one, not a comfortable one.

If you have a voice you want matched, send me something you have written. Two pages is enough.

Drafts

You see a full first draft, not fragments. Partial drafts invite line edits before the structure is settled, and structure is the expensive thing to change.

Revisions

Two rounds are included, and they are genuinely rounds — send everything at once rather than in a trickle. Comments on the draft are more useful to me than a rewritten paragraph, because they tell me what was not working rather than only how you would fix it.

What I will push back on

• A claim the sources do not support
• A deadline that would mean skipping the research
• A structure that buries the argument

Everything else is yours. Your name is on it.