Writer facts for kids
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. Skilled writers demonstrate skills in using language to portray certain ideas and images, whether in fiction or non-fiction.
Types of writing
- Poetry
- Prose
- Novels
- Music
- Lyrical (lyrics to music)
- Plays
- Myths and legends
- Newspapers
- Screenplays
- Monologues
- Nonfiction and creative nonfiction
Greeting card writer
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:
- Novelist
- Poet
- Newspaper reporter
- Columnist
- Magazine writer
- Head writer
- Ghostwriter
- Blog writer
- Business writer
Images for kids
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Portrait of Swedo-Finnish writer and poet Zachris Topelius (1818–1898) by Albert Edelfelt
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Composer Richard Wagner, who also wrote the libretti for his works
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Title page of Shakespeare's The Tempest from the 1623 First Folio
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Throes of Creation by Leonid Pasternak
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William Blake "Nurse's Song" from Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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The Ninety-five Theses (at the All Saints' Church, Wittenburg)
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Signature of Mariana Alcoforado (Maria Anna Alcoforada), once thought to be the writer of the epistolary fiction, Letters of a Portuguese Nun.
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Cumaean Sibyl by Michelangelo
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Nobel Prize Swedish winning poet and translator Tomas Tranströmer signs a book about his work by Modhir Ahmed (2007)
See also
In Spanish: Escritor para niños