how many types of writers?

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Copywriters write sales and ad copy. Their pieces are supposed to directly convince a prospect to opt in, call, or buy.

Ghostwriters are not really a type of writer. It is just a term that designates someone who writes for others and doesn't attribute their name to completed pieces. If I wrote Snooki's next book as a ghostwriter. She would sell it as "Smushing by Snooki", not "Smushing by Joseph Robinson".

Now, as far as IM writers go...

Fakes: People who have no business writing. There are a ton of them at the bottom of the price ladder. They're the ones that promise things like "cheap, fast turnaround, copyscape approved! We write anything!"

SEO Writers: These guys write content that is specifically meant to please whatever Google's latest algorithm wants. A lot of fakes will pretend to be this type of writer.

Regular Freelancers: The mid to high end of the market, these writers craft pieces for human readers. These are the type that you want to ally with.

Authors: Random term I'm designating to those that write for themselves and only for themselves. They're making bank (sometimes).

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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Joseph Robinson

Copywriters write sales and ad copy. Their pieces are supposed to directly convince a prospect to opt in, call, or buy.

Ghostwriters are not really a type of writer. It is just a term that designates someone who writes for others and doesn't attribute their name to completed pieces. If I wrote Snooki's next book as a ghostwriter. She would sell it as "Smushing by Snooki", not "Smushing by Joseph Robinson".

Now, as far as IM writers go...

Fakes: People who have no business writing. There are a ton of them at the bottom of the price ladder. They're the ones that promise things like "cheap, fast turnaround, copyscape approved! We write anything!"

SEO Writers: These guys write content that is specifically meant to please whatever Google's latest algorithm wants. A lot of fakes will pretend to be this type of writer.

Regular Freelancers: The mid to high end of the market, these writers craft pieces for human readers. These are the type that you want to ally with.

Authors: Random term I'm designating to those that write for themselves and only for themselves. They're making bank (sometimes).

To add to that because I was one:

Proposal Writer: Writes proposals, of course

And then there's:

Technical Writers: Writes technical manuals, etc.
Script Writers: Writes scripts for movies of course
Video Script Writers: Scripts for videos
Poetry
Prose
Novels
Music
Lyrical (lyrics to music)
Plays
Myths and legends
Newspapers/Magazines/Journalists
Screenplays
Monologues

I'm sure there's more kinds of writers, but there's lots of different kinds of writing.

EDIT: Yes ... just saw DeePowers list, so yes ... there's many different types of writers.

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NddS777

12 years ago

Maybe this will help...

Different Types of Writers

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salegurus

12 years ago

Geez have you heard of Google?

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DeePower 12 years ago

Magazine
Hard news
Soft news
Fiction
Non-fiction
Memoirs
Humor
Food
Technical
Medical
Textbook
Corporate
Press Release
White Papers
Research
Copy
Web Content
Ad copy
Sales

I'll think of more later.

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Horny Devil

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by kokjaywin

how many types of writers out there? copywriters, ghostwriters . . .

There are only two. Good writers and bad wroters. Which are you?

Originally Posted by kokjaywin

what they do??

They do write. Or in most instances try to.

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DeePower

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Horny Devil

There are only two. Good writers and bad wroters. Which are you?

Hmm, What's a wroter? Maybe something you clean out drains with?

Dee

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Horny Devil

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by DeePower

Hmm, What's a wroter? Maybe something you clean out drains with?

Dee

The 'o' was italicized, being an ever so subtle, tongue-in-cheek aside. Perhaps you missed that one madam :rolleyes:

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DeePower

12 years ago

Yup. I surely missed it.

I have to disagree with you.

There are good writers, great writers, mediocre writers, writers who are only great in their own minds, poor writers, misguided writers, wanna be writers, used to be writers and those who consider themselves writers but actually haven't ever written anything.

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DeePower 12 years ago

So just for fun here are the types of writing I've done.

non-fiction books published by mainstream commercial publishers
magazine articles hard copy
screenplays -- haven't sold one yet, key word is yet
e-books
white papers
web content, lots and lots of web content
articles on a freelance basis, lots and lots of articles
press releases
ghostwriter -- once wrote an ebook on male health
kindle books
humor, well actually it's my dogs blog not mine

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Horny Devil

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by DeePower

There are good writers, great writers, mediocre writers, writers who are only great in their own minds, poor writers, misguided writers, wanna be writers, used to be writers and those who consider themselves writers but actually haven't ever written anything.

Why split hairs. The relevant answer is still the same as before . . .

Originally Posted by Horny Devil

There are only two. Good writers and bad wroters. Which are you?

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Michael Ten

12 years ago

One type?

The one type is those who record written words in some language.

This one type may vary in skill level, the style the use, and the reasons they have for doing what they do.

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Joseph Robinson

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Michael55555

One type?

The one type is those who record written words in some language.

This one type may vary in skill level, the style the use, and the reasons they have for doing what they do.

Yeah...no. The context of the question clearly shows that the OP understands what the word means and what it implies (which is what you are addressing). What they're asking is how that term breaks down when it specifically relates to business.

(Hey, you did come into a thread that was bound to be full of writers

:p)

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how many types of writers?

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