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PEPE PTTERTET OS,

September 25, 1983

creatures.

Thirty-nine year old ghost
_writer Keith Borden explains

it best when he says, ‘‘! will
ae often contribute a great deal
of the substance of a
(writing) project, yet in the
end, it’s my client’s project;
my client’s name. And I fade
out of the picture... I’m the
ghost.”’

Borden,who moved to
North Vancouver last year
from California, has worked
on and off as a ghost writer
H . since 1975. Although he has a
1 “master’s degree in bio-
1 chemistry from Stanford
i University, Borden decided
{! «© ta. give up a possible future as
a researcher in favor of the
more precarious field of
ghost writing.

**] realize at a certain point
that I didn’t want to spend
the rest of my life in the
laboratory,”” he explained.
**l wanted to interact with
people, and I loved to write.’’

Borden has written
everything from computer
users’ manuals to personal
ads. Once he wrote a

100-page book on
titled,

philosophy,

KEITH BORDEN sits at
home composing over his
typewriter for one of the
many ghost-written
stories, manuals or
advertisements. He
prefers the anonymity of
ghost writing because he
can pick and choose his
work.

.

Lecture with visiting
Waldorf Educator

AUDREY McALLEN

“Crisis Points in a » Child's Development

How the Waldorf School Curriculum
Meets the Challenge”

Saturday, October 1, 8 p.m.

McABen has been involved
‘nkdorf Education since 1942
has worked as Waldorf Clas»
teaches in and later as a
remedial . She has been
invited to work as o consultant fo
other Waldort schools in Europe and
North America and she is now o
course tencher for Waldorf Teacha

Traming Programs er educational
publications inchde

Teaching Children to Write: Its connecton with the
development of spatial consciousness tn the child
The Extra 2 Exercises in Movement, Drawing and
Painting for Children tn difficulties with writing, reading and
arithmetic.

Sleep: An unobserved Element in Education.

The Vancouver
(aA WALDORF SCHOOL
2725 St. Christopher's Road,

North Vancoaver
education for the whole child.”

| Newsroom 985-2131

GHOST WRITERS rarely make the newspapers.
The very nature of the job — to write for and in the
names of other people -— makes them elusive

**Kundalini--Psychosis or
Transcendence’’ for a
psychiatrist in California.

“It’s about a spiritual
force,’” he said, smiling. ‘‘It
took three months to write...
he provided the material,
wrote the book.”’ ;

Another project for
Borden was writing a lengthy
report with a policeman who
was intending to get him
university credit for his ‘‘life
experience’. The policeman
approached Borden for help
after the first report he had
written was rejected by the
university.

“*I grilled him carefully to
make sure it was okay (to
help him) with the universi-
ty... It was, and we went
ahead. Also, | got a certain
Satisfaction out of question-
ing a police officer,” said
Borden. The ghost written
report was deemed ‘‘ex-
cellent’” by the university,
and the policeman received
his credit.

Borden said he usually
interviewed a client and
worked from recorded tapes,
or else a client would present

By ADRIAN
CHAMBERLAIN

him with written material to
be reworked.

Part of the art of ghost
writing is to have a high
degree of empathy with a
client, or as Borden says,
‘*You have to get into their
thought patterns.’ He
sometimes interviews clients
and writes something for
them based on his own per-
ception of what ‘‘needs to be
said.”’

‘*And when I present it to
them, they’ll say, ‘It sounds
just like me, but I never could
have done it!” ”’

Borden’s job not only in-
volves writing, but research
as well. If an article has to be
written for a particular jour-
nal, he will study back issues
to master the required writing
style. Lf he’s unfamiliar with
a certain technical subject,
Borden will read books on
that topic. Once he even had
to learn a computer
‘‘language’’ in order to write
a user manual for computer
software.

Borden says the most
challenging ghost writing
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