What do writers do when they cant write?

Its an exasperating question, since some write anyway even in risky ways.

Or at least distorted.

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All this is colorfully acknowledged byJ.R.

Moehringer, who is a serial ghost.

Affleck played a hard-drinking character who doesnt exist in the memoir.

Windsor’s at war

And Clooney treated Moehringer as if he were an actual ghost he never even offered to meet him.

Memoirs and autobiographies, of course, often claim to be self-written.

Some show business memoirs became instantly famous because of their preposterous exaggerations and inventions.

Producer Jerry Weintraubs, for instance, is titledWhen I Stop Talking, Youll Know Im Dead.

It lived up to its title.

Harry balked at some of his ghosts approaches; he, too, had his angry outbursts with Harry.

Moehringer is sensitive about his reviews, to be sure.

Does a ghost end up liking his subject?

Prince Harry (the Duke of Sussex) is in litigation with three London tabloids.

He also hada recent confrontation with photographersin New York.

Last weekhe lost a legal battle in Londonover his request to pay for his own police protection in Britain.

Their final understanding, of course, was an agreement that ghosts dont speak.

To which the ghost added, Well, maybe they can; maybe sometimes they should.