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- | The term '''''writer''''' can apply to anyone who creates a [[writing|written]] [[opus|work]], but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. Skilled writers demonstrate skills in using [[language]] to portray ideas and images, whether producing [[fiction]] or [[non-fiction]]. | + | |
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- | A writer may compose in many different forms, including (but certainly not limited to) [[poetry]], [[prose]], or [[music]]. Accordingly, a writer in specialist mode may rank as a [[poet]], [[novelist]], [[composer]], [[lyricist]], [[playwright]], [[mythographer]], [[journalist]], [[film]] [[scriptwriter]], etc. (See also: [[creative writing]], [[technical writer|technical writing]] and [[academic]] papers.) | + | |
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- | Writers' output frequently contributes to the [[cultural]] content of a [[society]], and that society may value its writerly [[corpus]] -- or [[literature]] -- as an [[art]] much like the visual arts (see: [[painting]], [[sculpture]], [[photography]]), [[music]], [[craft]] and [[performance art]] (see: [[drama]], [[theatre]], [[opera]], [[Musical theater|musical]]). | + | |
- | ==See also== | + | |
- | *[[Author]] | + | |
- | *[[Copywriter]] | + | |
- | *[[Ghostwriter]] | + | |
- | *[[Hack writer]] | + | |
- | *[[List of women writers]] | + | |
- | *[[List of writers' conferences]] | + | |
- | *[[Lists of writers]] | + | |
- | *[[Physician writer]] | + | |
- | *[[Professional writing]] | + | |
- | *[[Style guide]] | + | |
- | *[[Writer's voice]] | + | |
- | *[[Writing]] | + | |
- | *[[Writing Group]] | + | |
- | *[[Website content writer]] | + | |
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- | == See also == | + | |
- | *[[Jahsonic's literary canon]] | + | |
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- | :''[[Martin Amis]] - [[Georges Bataille]] - [[Charles Baudelaire]] - [[Jorge Luis Borges]] - [[Céline]] - [[Dostoevsky]] - [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]] - [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]] - [[Franz Kafka]] - [[Stephen King]] - [[Alberto Moravia]] - [[Edgar Allan Poe]] - [[Boris Vian]]'' | + | |
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