Creating Authors Out of Storytellers

“Inside each one of us is a book waiting to be written, if only because inside each one of us is a story simply waiting to be told.”

- Yomi Garnett

Richard Llewelyn-Jones, a member of the British aristocracy, sometime in the summer of 2021, wrote to his close friend, Lord David Strathclyde, 45th Duke of Strathclyde, to recommend Dr Yomi Garnett’s ghostwriting services. He wrote, “My Lord, if you are the rare sort of person that believes that raw talent is as rare as the rarest of gemstones, the Red Garnet, then I would encourage you to read further. If, on the other hand, you are the sort of person who believes that talent exists only within the confines of what is as ordinarily available as 14-Carat Gold, and therefore permit it to casually slip through your fingers, then I graciously spare you the agony of reading further, and you can disregard this mail. Yet, being of the firm conviction that you are sufficiently enlightened, intuitive and sophisticated, not only to be open to rare possibilities, but to also be the sort of person who can sincerely appreciate the prescient value in discovering new talent, and can insightfully and instantly recognize new talent when it appears on your horizon, I will take the liberty of introducing Dr Yomi Garnett.”

Richard Llewelyn-Jones was not exaggerating, nor was he engaging in sophistry. Yomi Garnett easily belongs to the new generation of skilled ghostwriters that are fast gaining recognition for their uncanny ability to deploy a unique and refreshing style to creative writing, in the process blending a formidable intellect with a combination of empathy and intuition to achieve the best outcome for an author’s manuscript. His philosophy is a study in the sublime strategy he adopts towards a vocation he views in somewhat reverent light. He believes that a good book is written twice. It is first written in the mental realm. Then, it is written on the material plane. In other words, the book would first be written in the author’s head. Next, the ghostwriter creeps into the author’s head to retrieve the story, in the process creating authors out of storytellers.

Considered a consummate player at the most proficient level of ghostwriting advisory in the United States, he is famed for the phenomenal ability to deliver a 200-page manuscript in a record time of two weeks, should that sort of urgency be absolutely compelling, and in a ‘voice’ so unique to the author as to render the book a strong personal statement of his client’s vision and values. Having assisted in excess of 60 authors to achieve their manuscript objectives, Garnett’s peculiar forte now appears to be the dual ability to achieve a strong emotional connection with his clients, and the exceptional ability to write in a wide range of tones, genres and subjects that cover the entire gamut of the human experience, in the process inspiring the uncommon devotion of a formidable backdrop of a loyal clientele base that cuts all across the globe.

Yomi Garnett likens himself to a master baker. A master baker is a consummate culinary professional who deploys fresh and innovative concepts to the art of pastry making and cake baking. No aroma quite surpasses the heady and totally delectable fragrance of freshly baked cake. By the same delightful token, nothing quite beats the sheer feeling of literary intoxication that overwhelms one when one reads the superlatively-written manuscript that is the handiwork of a master ghostwriter. That is because the master ghostwriter is a master baker of sorts. Yomi Garnett is a master ghostwriter. He not only bakes a sumptuous literary cake with his incomparably rich vocabulary, he embellishes the outcome with an icing on the literary cake he bakes for you with the vast repertoire of words, phrases and metaphors that afford him the luxury of creatively deploying language in such a way as to bring raw emotions to the surface in any encounter, and in such a singularly unique manner that your ‘voice,’ as the ultimate author of your own book, is decidedly not subsumed by his.

Yomi Garnett is a remarkably fastidious researcher. His forte is the incomparable ability to mold and add relevant ‘flesh’ to the sketchy information you avail him with, not unlike how muscles clothe a skeleton to produce the human form. Employing the perfect combination of intuitive knowledge and intellectual discipline, he remains firmly on track to ask just the right questions that uncannily extract the real essence of your experiences, in the process, commanding and deploying confounding precision and skill to bring out the best version of your story from you.

Yomi Garnett is a dancer. He dances with words. Dance is the movement of the body in a rhythmic manner, usually to the accompaniment of music, for the purpose of expressing an idea or emotion, or simply taking delight in the movement itself, and when conscious effort is deployed to its artistic choreography, dance is the most elegant expression of human rhythm, form and movement. Yomi Garnett dances with words, in very much the same manner that the ballet performer dances with her feet. He receives the thoughts and ideas of someone, and then synthesizes them with such creativity that the entire narrative is translated into words that totally reflect that person’s ‘voice’ in a book manuscript. In the process, he also deploys uncommon proficiency with prose to poignantly bring raw emotions to the surface in interactive dialogue. Ultimately, because he is a grandmaster at the rarefied art of extracting adventures and experiences from memories, and translating them into the written word, expressed as simply and as elegantly as language will benevolently permit, Garnett is master at the art of creating authors out of storytellers.

A man who has derived tremendous joy and unqualified fulfillment from his remarkable career as a ghostwriter, perhaps the most sublimely creative aspect of his work is that, as he claims in his own words, “I actually finish writing a book even before writing the book. As a writer, I am a creative daydreamer. As soon as I embark on a writing project, I always play a mental game. I would create a clear and graphically-vivid picture of the manuscript, as if it were already completed. I would then imagine my mind as some form of screen on which I would replay the manuscript, over and again. What this process translates to is that I uncompromisingly begin with the end in mind by first helping my client articulate a book title, and the chapter-by-chapter outline of the entire book, even before I start writing the manuscript. That way, for all practical purposes, we have already finished writing the book even before we start writing the book. When all is said and done, in my humble opinion, no literary effort can beat a superlatively written manuscript. A good book is written twice. It is first written in the mental realm. Then, it is written on the material plane. Expressed with the simplicity of an elegant truth, you, the author of the book, would first write the story in your head. Next, I would creep into your head to retrieve the story. Then, I would assists you to write it on the physical plane. Voilà! Your book is written!”

Dr Yomi Garnett

Email: yomi@yomigarnett.us

Website: www.yomigarnett.us

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