Ghost and Writer

Ghost

Ghost noun - A writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else.

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Writer and ghost are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Writer" instead a noun "Ghost".

Nearby Words: ghostly, ghosted, ghosting

Writer noun - A person who creates a written work.

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Ghost and writer are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ghost" instead a noun "Writer".

Nearby Words: writing, write

old	old ghost	old writer
good	good ghost	good writer
female	female ghost	female writer
particular	particular ghost	particular writer
Other adjectives: regular, original, dead, single, actual, bad, main, young, new, said.

His ghost may have done all the things the main writer did, or may have driven him to them, OR may not have been a ghost at all.

Source: The Killer in Me
This is done deliberately by the book's ghost-writer, who plans to kill the (nominal) author and wanted to confuse the issue by provoking a bunch of people into being plausible suspects.

Source: Write Who You Know
At one point, a poor person Tetsuro meets is a would be anime creator (who we are told, did manage to get her anime created), and episode 58 features a ghost who was a would-be manga writer in life.

Source: Most Writers Are Writers

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