Crossword clues for writer
writer
- Novelist, e.g
- Columnist, e.g
- Novel creator
- London or Manchester
- Steinbeck, e.g
- Sentence determiner
- Remember the Type ____
- One whose work is on the books?
- One hoping to be shelved?
- Novelist or columnist
- Many a freelancer
- Lyricist or composer
- King or Koontz
- Journalist, e.g
- John Grisham, e.g
- J.J. Abrams, for the 1997 Pesci-Glover buddy comedy "Gone Fishin'"
- Gide, e.g
- Contributor to a blog
- Brown, Grey or Steel
- Blog penner
- Blog contributor
- Dodge or Nash
- Journalist, e.g.
- Steinbeck, e.g.
- Blogger, for one
- Play maker?
- Grub Street denizen
- Gide, e.g.
- Hale or Hardy
- Bacon or Lamb
- Edward Morgan Forster, e.g.
- Scribe
- Crane, Paine or Twain
- King, for example
- Christie or le Carré
- Author and setter back on course, we hear?
- Dramatist, say, who corrects things that are wrong in speech?
- Author, one making correction, by sound of it
- Man of many words
- Pencil pusher?
- Word processor user
- Pencil pusher
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Writer \Writ"er\, n. [AS. wr[=i]tere.]
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One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.
They [came] that handle the pen of the writer.
--Judg. v. 14.My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
--Ps. xlv. 1. -
One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.
This pitch, as ancient writers do report, doth defile.
--Shak. -
A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
Writer of the tallies (Eng. Law), an officer of the exchequer of England, who acted as clerk to the auditor of the receipt, and wrote the accounts upon the tallies from the tellers' bills. The use of tallies in the exchequer has been abolished.
--Wharton (Law. Dict.)Writer's cramp, Writer's palsy or Writer's spasm (Med.), a painful spasmodic affection of the muscles of the fingers, brought on by excessive use, as in writing, violin playing, telegraphing, etc. Called also scrivener's palsy.
Writer to the signet. See under Signet.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English writere "one who can write, clerk; one who produces books or literary compositions," agent noun from writan (see write (v.)). Meaning "sign-painter" is from 1837. Writer's cramp attested by 1843; writer's block by 1950.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who writes, or produces literary work. 2 (context historical English) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the (w: East India Company), who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor. 3 Anything that writes or produces output.
WordNet
n. writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) [syn: author]
a person who is able to write and has written something
Wikipedia
A writer is a person who uses written words in various styles and techniques to communicate their ideas. Writers produce various forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, poetry, plays, screenplays, and essays as well as various reports and news articles that may be of interest to the public. Writers' texts are published across a range of media. Skilled writers who are able to use language to express ideas well often contribute significantly to the cultural content of a society. The word is also used elsewhere in the arts – such as songwriter – but as a standalone term, "writer" normally refers to the creation of written language. Some writers work from an oral tradition.
Writers can produce material across a number of genres, fictional or non-fictional. Other writers use multiple media – for example, graphics or illustration – to enhance the communication of their ideas. Another recent demand has been created by civil and government readers for the work of non-fictional technical writers, whose skills create understandable, interpretive documents of a practical or scientific nature. Some writers may use images (drawing, painting, graphics) or multimedia to augment their writing. In rare instances, creative writers are able to communicate their ideas via music as well as words.
As well as producing their own written works, writers often write on how they write (that is, the process they use); why they write (that is, their motivation); and also comment on the work of other writers (criticism). Writers work professionally or non-professionally, that is, for payment or without payment and may be paid either in advance (or on acceptance), or only after their work is published. Payment is only one of the motivations of writers and many are never paid for their work.
The term writer is often used as a synonym of author, although the latter term has a somewhat broader meaning and is used to convey legal responsibility for a piece of writing, even if its composition is anonymous, unknown or collaborative.
A writer is someone who uses written words to communicate ideas.
Writer may also refer to:
- Writer (album), 1970 debut album by Carole King
- LibreOffice Writer, a word processor, forked from OpenOffice.org Writer
- J.R. Writer (born 1984), American hip hop recording artist
- Writers (TV series), British comedy-drama web and television series
- Stuck in Love, 2012 film previously titled Writers
Writer is the debut album by Carole King and was released in 1970. King already had a successful career as a songwriter, and been a part of The City, a short-lived group she formed after moving to Los Angeles in 1968. Tracks on the album include " Up on the Roof" which was a number 4 hit for the Drifters in 1962, and "Child of Mine", which has been recorded by Billy Joe Royal, among others. The album did not receive much attention upon its release, though it entered the chart following the success of King's next album, Tapestry, in 1971.
Reviewers rate it positively if not as highly as Tapestry, one noting that it was the "most underrated of all [her] original albums". And, in a review that also covered Tapestry in Rolling Stone, Jon Landau wrote, "Writer was a blessing despite its faults" and that though the "production was poor", King herself made the album "very worthwhile".
Usage examples of "writer".
Rummel, a well-known writer of the same school, speaks of curing a case of jaundice in thirty-four days by Homoeopathic doses of pulsatilla, aconite, and cinchona.
Shebbeare, a public writer, who, in a series of printed letters to the people of England, had animadverted on the conduct of the ministry in the most acrimonious terms, stigmatized some great names with all the virulence of censure, and even assaulted the throne itself with oblique insinuation and ironical satire.
The Beast is the current Crompton, Leland, last of his line, a mystery writer who lives as a recluse in New Hampshire and suffers from acromegaly which has disfigured his features.
I would recommend to writers is to let adjectives agree in number also in this position.
I do understand that power is dangerous to a writer, and that my long proximity to unlimited power adulterated my writings.
Arnold, was a writer and historian whose energetic advocacy of liberal ideas and international, liberal movements soon attracted the attention of sympathetic and hostile readers.
The book contained forty-two poems by such writers as Gemma Files, Charlee Jacob, Mark McLaughlin, Peter Crowther, Bruce Boston, Tom Piccirilli and others, along with a Foreword by John Rose, an Introduction from Phyllis Gotlieb and an Afterword by James Morrow.
No one guessed that the mourning dress of the celebrated French writer belonged to the merchant Fromery, and that the glittering diamond agraffes in his bosom, and the costly rings on his fingers, were the property of the Jew Hirsch.
And even among reforming writers who could wax indignant at every other kind of abuse and anachronism, there was little enthusiasm for some sort of nonvenal, bureaucratic state.
The Synoptic Gospels go so far as to make the woman who anoints Jesus anonymous, although it is highly likely that the writers knew who she was and why she was important.
No apologia is any more than a romance - half a fiction - in which all the successive identities taken on and rejected by the writer as a function of linear time are treated as separate characters.
Moreover, because touchy subjects arouse emotion, they are especially useful for the writer who knows that arousing the emotions of his audience is the test of his skill.
I take it that Charvat is defending an author named Hammett, and Atheling prefers a later writer, named Chandler.
Chapter 10 Showing the truth of many observations of Ovid, and of other more grave writers, who have proved beyond contradiction, that wine is often the forerunner of incontinency Jones retired from the company, in which we have seen him engaged, into the fields, where he intended to cool himself by a walk in the open air before he attended Mr.
Assuming that the beginning writer will first try to write an autobiographical novel, we have some words of advice on selecting a viewpoint.