Are You An Author or a Writer & What's the Difference?
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Are You An Author or a Writer & What's the Difference?
- 2. People often use the words author and writer as if they are the same thing but these two are both quite different.
- 3. A writer is a someone whom writes articles, books, or any kind of literary piece.
- 4. Where an author is the person who comes up with the plot, idea, or the content of the work being written.
- 5. Although sometimes, the author and writer can be the same person.
- 6. In an autobiography, someone writes about their own life. So the author is writing his own thoughts and ideas.
- 7. But in a biography, the writer is not the author. The ideas or thoughts someone else are the ones being being written.
- 8. If you are writing a novel or story based on a plot made by you, you are known as the author of it.
- 9. If you are writing someone else’s ideas, you will be known as the writer of the work.
- 10. Being a writer is considered easier than being an author.
- 11. This is because an author has to create and develop an idea, while a writer’s job is simply to write someone else’s idea.
- 12. An author must have exceptional plots and writing skills in order to dominant their field.
- 13. Writing skills include the command over language and expressiveness with a good play of words.
- 14. These skills can be learned through constant writing. Some, on the other hand, are born with this talent.
- 15. Only a skilled writer can portray ideas, events, and pictures through mere words.
- 16. When writing books, a person becomes an author only if the book is published.
- 17. If your work is unpublished, and even if the idea is yours, you will still be considered as just the writer.
- 18. Yet when your work is published you will be known as the author of the work.
- 19. So even if you've written 100 books, but never gotten any of them published, you will remain just a writer.
- 20. An author can get the work copyrighted under the copyright laws.
- 21. This makes sure that nobody can steal or use the original idea.
- 22. The author will always be associated with that particular work.
- 23. To be a good author you must have the capability to express thoughts.
- 24. And a good writer has to know how to understand an idea and present it in the correct way.
- 25. In summary…
- 26. To be an author, the idea must be your own and you must get the work published.
- 27. An author must have specific skills. But a writer’s skill is suited to the job required.
- 28. You become an author when your work is published. But if you never published, you will remain a writer.
- 29. An author can get their work copyrighted.
- 30. Whether you want to call yourself an author or a writer, we can get you published.