writerly

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Some use a pseudonym, similar to what writers and artists have been doing for many years, either for protection and security, or because their real name, Hildibob Slibbervitzenson, just isn't "writerly" or "artistic."

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, characteristic of, or befitting a writer: "set a standard of writerly craft for that...well-wrought magazine” (Newsweek).

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  • Some use a pseudonym, similar to what writers and artists have been doing for many years, either for protection and security, or because their real name, Hildibob Slibbervitzenson, just isn't "writerly" or "artistic." —  The Blog Herald
  • He much liked the subject and was already aspiring for a writerly life. —  California Literary Review
  • A panel of literary pundits, including Azar Nafisi, Rick Moody and Edwidge Danticat, assess his memoir Dreams from My Father and tell us what they think his writerly-ways might portend for his term in the Oval Office. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • To which the answer is that, despite the flaws of structure noted above, it is not journalism, but a serious, writerly, self-critical account of what it means to feel that, despite love and hope and good intentions, you have failed as a parent, and that the child you bore (while still eerily, painfully familiar) is lost to you. —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
  • So what if no great American poets wait in the writerly wings? —  Books, Inq. — The Epilogue
 

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