Thank you for visiting my author website. Author seems to be the usual term but I’m not sure that it is the best adjective/descriptor. One definition of an author, found at random, is:
a writer of a book, article, etc., or a person whose main job is writing books.
Clearly quite different to a poet, who, unsurprisingly, is defined as: someone who writes poems but does not, it seems, write books. Otherwise, they would be an author!
Neither are they considered scholarly, according to this quote:
The scholar is compared favourably with that other notoriously frivolous and unproductive cultural figure, the poet.
I suspect novelists, had they been recognised as a species at the time, would have been considered even less productive than poets.
I think my epithet of choice would be writer. Here are two definitions of a writer found on the net:
- someone whose work is to write books, poems, stories, etc.
- someone who has written something
The second one gets my vote!
So welcome to my writer’s site, where you might find some information about things I have written, the occasional picture, a (very) small bio and possibly other random jottings.
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