Writer

A writer can mean anyone who makes a written work or who writes, but the word more usually means people who write creatively or as a job, or those who have written in many different forms.^[1] Skilled writers demonstrate skills in using language to portray certain ideas and images, whether in fiction or non-fiction.

A "person who writes books or articles to be published"; That is one of the ways that media explains what a writer does.^[2] l

Types of writing

This list is only a few examples of the many types of writing there are.

Types of writers

Writers often specialize in one of the following categories:^[3]

Novelist
Poet
Newspaper reporter
Columnist
Head writer
Ghostwriter
Blog writer
Business writing is writing proposals and plans for a corporation, and journalism reporting on markets, financing, and other economic matters. It has a specific purpose delivering important information to the reader in a simple, brief, and effective manner. ^[4]

Writer Media

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos
Portrait of Swedo-Finnish writer and poet Zachris Topelius (1818–1898) by Albert Edelfelt
Alexander Pushkin recites his poem before Gavrila Derzhavin (1815)
Composer Richard Wagner, who also wrote the libretti for his works
Title page of Shakespeare's The Tempest from the 1623 First Folio
Flaubert's heavily edited page of his manuscript for Un Cœur simple
Signature of Anne Frank
Writing Letter(Photograph by Kusakabe Kimbei)
Water damaged unpublished autograph manuscript page of Bligh's voyage in the launch of HMS Bounty, from the ship to Tofua and from thence to Timor April 28 to June 14, 1789, after the Mutiny. It contains notes used later as the basis for his report and all his subsequent narratives.