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writerly

a. (context slang nonstandard or British English) Of or pertaining to writers with well chosen words or well crafted sentences.

Usage examples of "writerly".

The reader, soon bored, yearns for the images, anecdotes, characterization, and writerly precision that make informational writing come alive on the page.

In this chapter we are trying to fashion sentences that are writerly, that particularize in an interesting way.

Instead, he focuses on word choice and on the cadences of his sentences, two of his natural writerly gifts.

If our point-of-view narrator is less articulate or educated or ironic or sympathetic than we are, we may also have to give up our writerly egos, muting our own voice in order to speak through the voice of our narrator.