Writer: Difference between revisions

{{short description|Person using written words to communicate}}

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{{About|writers who use words|writers of music|Composer}}

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| image= [[File:Francisco de Goya y Lucientes - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos.jpg|250px]]

| caption= [[Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos]], a Spanish writer depicted with the tools of the trade.

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| activity_sector = [[Literature]]

| competencies = [[Language proficiency]], [[Grammar]], [[Literacy]]

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| employment_field = [[Mass Media]], [[Social Media]]

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The term "writer" is also used elsewhere in the arts and music – such as songwriter or a screenwriter – but as a standalone "writer" normally refers to the creation of written language. Some writers work from an [[oral tradition]].

As well as producing their own written works, writers often write on ''how'' they write (that is, the process they use);<ref name=Nicolson1>{{cite book|last=Nicolson|first=Adam|title=When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible|year=2011|publisher=Harper Press|location=London|isbn=978-0-00-743100-7}}</ref> ''why'' they write (that is, their motivation);<ref name=Blythe>See, for example, {{cite book|title=Why I write: thoughts on the practice of fiction|year=c. 1998|publisher=Little, Brown|location=Boston|isbn=0316102296|editor=Will Blythe|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/whyiwritethought0000unse}}</ref> and also comment on the work of other writers (criticism).<ref>[[Jonathan Franzen]], for example, criticised [[John Updike]] for being "exquisitely preoccupied with his own literary digestive processes ..." and his "lack of interest in the bigger postwar, postmodern, socio-technological picture" {{cite journal|last=Franzen|first=Jonathan|title=Franzen on Kraus: Footnote 89|journal=The Paris Review|date=6 September 2013|issue=206|url=https://medium.com/slush-pile/franzen-on-kraus-footnote-89-92335fb9c2e?postPublishedType=initial|access-date=11 September 2013}}</ref> 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 not paid for their work.

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