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(authorship) The main plot in a story, especially a television show.
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The sort of language used in advertisements, typified by bold claims and optimistic encouragement.
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Synonym of constructed script
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The readership of a book or other written publication.
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Someone who writes books for a living.
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(publishing, derogatory) A publisher that relies on producing large numbers of small-run books by different authors, as opposed to a smaller number of works published in larger numbers.
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A person who collects autographs
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The art or practice of compiling books from the writings of others.
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A writer of books; an author.
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In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.
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(computing) A dialogue box.
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A person employed to write dialogue for characters in a soap opera or similar show.
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A scriptwriter skilled at writing dialogue.
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The process of adapting something into a docudrama.
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(obsolete) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
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Alternative letter-case form of festschrift [A collection of articles, essays, etc., published together as a memorial or tribute to an academic or some other respected person.]
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Alternative spelling of ghostwriter [A professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person; one who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity.]
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Written by a ghostwriter.
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(obsolete) A writer for hire.
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(authorship) A long section in a work of fiction that reveals often tedious expository information through the voice of the narrator.
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Alternative form of informavore [An infovore; one who eagerly acquires information.]
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(literature) A frenzied, first-person style of writing.
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A person employed to write letters for illiterate people; a person who does this as an occupation.
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A particular profession in the production of comics, an artist specializing in neatly writing written material such as dialogue.
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The person who writes a libretto.
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One who writes professionally.
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(usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
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The best, most popular, or most renowned achievement of an author or artist, representing their major life effort.
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An author or editor of one or more miscellanies; one who produces written works having a wide range of forms or kinds of content.
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A small missal, especially one published periodically.
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(historical) In Ancient Greek society, a person holding the office of recorder or archivist.
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A drama in which an actor performs as many characters
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(rare) The practice of annotating manuscripts with marks set in the margins.
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An opuscule; a short work.
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A written work, usually a novel, which is sufficiently interesting or suspenseful to keep the reader 'turning the pages'.
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(slang, writing) An author who writes their story without a plan or an outline.
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(informal, writing) An improvised style of writing without an outline.
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A person with writing skills; a journalist or other author.
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A person employed to read the scripts of plays before they are staged.
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Writing plays: the craft of a playwright
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One who writes plays; a playwright.
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(authorship) The writing of plays.
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Any specific edition of a work by Plutarch, often specifically Plutarch's Lives
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Alternative form of poison-pen letter [(idiomatic) A missive which is malicious, insulting, and/or defamatory toward a person, organization, or point of view, especially one which is unsigned.]
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(idiomatic) A missive which is malicious, insulting, and/or defamatory toward a person, organization, or point of view, especially one which is unsigned.
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(archaic) A Bible commentary written in its margins.
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(scholarly studies) An original work, especially one by a notable author whose work is now the subject of commentaries (secondary sources).
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An event at which children gather to listen to a story being read aloud.
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(theater, Ancient Greece) A passage of text in a play.
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A “thesis novel”: a novel that is didactic rather than entertaining, often taking the form of social commentary.
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Obsolete form of rubric. [A heading in a book highlighted in red.]
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(authorship, rare) A verb (such as "explained", "shouted", or "uttered") used to indicate dialogue when writing fiction, chosen so as to avoid using the word "said".
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(uncountable, often attributive) The secret copying and sharing of illegal publications, chiefly in the Soviet Union; underground publishing and its publications.
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(obsolete, nonce word) Inclined to write.
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(archaic) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
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Obsolete form of scribbler. [One who scribbles; a hasty or untalented writer or artist.]
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(literature) A writer, regarded as producing a work but not as providing its explanation (which is instead determined by the reader), according to the theories of Roland Barthes.
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A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.
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(narratology) The first published narrative in a series of works; a narrative from which later narratives are written after. It serves as the chronological core of the series.
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(authorship) The work of a songwriter.
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A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence.
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An interaction, between characters in a drama, that advances the plot
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One who writes the storyline for an animated cartoon.
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Someone who writes stories
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A person who is unduly fond of constructing systems.
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A person who introduces speakers, and proposes toasts at a formal dinner; a master of ceremonies.
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The use of archaic language when writing.
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(by extension) A short story or anecdote that presents a scene or tableau, or paints a picture.
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A person who writes, or produces literary work.
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