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  • adjective Not writing, or unrelated to writing

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non- +‎ writing

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Examples

  • And for authors exhausted by the seemingly endless book signings, interviews, blog tours and other nonwriting activities that have become an essential part of book promotion, foreign rights sales are doubly attractive.

    Karen Dionne: Foreign Rights: How Authors Tap a Rich Vein of Royalties Karen Dionne 2011

  • And for authors exhausted by the seemingly endless book signings, interviews, blog tours and other nonwriting activities that have become an essential part of book promotion, foreign rights sales are doubly attractive.

    Karen Dionne: Foreign Rights: How Authors Tap a Rich Vein of Royalties Karen Dionne 2011

  • – Major nonwriting credentials, anything that will clearly make readers more interested in buying the book.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Only 10% of novels clear their advances? 2009

  • Okay, I was productive today in a nonwriting sort of way.

    ...i got a Nellie Fox baseball card from 1963 and a head in a box. stillsostrange 2008

  • With Leon I was happier than I had ever been, but away from him I felt a new sadness, and now my nonwriting life at the hotel was almost unbearable.

    Beard 2010

  • First Casualties From Strike The nonwriting staffs of late-night talk shows could be among the first casualties of the Hollywood writers 'strike if negotiations between the union and television and film producers remain at a stalemate for much longer.

    Late-Night Talkers May See 2007

  • Unlike the vast majority of writers, showrunners must balance fealty to their cause with other priorities, including loyalty to nonwriting staffers on their shows who will soon be laid off, and the desire to retain creative control of their own work.

    Splits Emerge Among 2007

  • Some TV writers who produce their own shows, known as showrunners, are planning to return to work in a nonwriting capacity to finish post-production on existing episodes.

    TV Hosts Push for End to Writers' Strike 2007

  • Some television studios have been applying pressure on the writers by warning of cuts to nonwriting staff on prime-time shows.

    Writers' Talks Need 2007

  • The hosts are returning under pressure from their network bosses and out of loyalty to their nonwriting staffs, whom the hosts themselves have been paying out-of-pocket since the start of the strike.

    Late-Night Talk Shows Set to Go Scriptless 2007

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