writer (n.)
- addressee
- amanuensis
- annalist
- author
- authoress
- bibliographer
- calligrapher
- clerk
- coauthor
- collaborator
- columnist
- communicator
- compiler
- composer
- copier
- copyist
- copywriter
- correspondent
- critic
- diarist
- dramatist
- encyclopedist
- essayist
- expositor
- ghost
- ghostwriter
- humorist
- letterer
- litterateur
- newspaperman
- novelist
- pamphleteer
- pen
- penman
- poet
- reviewer
- scenarist
- scribbler
- scribe
- scriptwriter
- scrivener
- secretary
- storyteller
- transcriber
- wordsmith
One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title-page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.