How Do I Write Thee?
Let Me Count the Ways[1]
WRITING.
–I. Nouns. [act of writing] writing, composition, collaboration, transcription, superscription, inscription, subscription, redaction, endorsement or indorsement, correspondence, expatiation, description; tachygraphy, pseudography, graphorrhea.
[something written, piece of writing, piece of writing, etc.]
composition, essay, theme, manuscript, typescript, script, piece, copy, paper, article, thesis, treatise; collaboration; draft, rough draft, sketch, outline; note, marginalia (pl.), jotting, record; transcript, superscript, subscript; postscript, adscript; pseudograph, pseudographia; prose; passage, excerpt, extract, text: chrestomathy.
desire to write, itch to write, creative urge, cacoethes scribendi (L.), furor scribendi (L.), graphomania
–II. Verbs. write, write down, write out, put down, set down, jot down, note, note down, record, take pen in hand, doodle, typewrite, type, dash off; inscribe, subscribe, superscribe, transcribe, copy, endorse or indorse; correspond, correspond with, write to, keep in touch with; write about, describe, expatiate on (or upon); enroll, register; edit, redact; pseudographize; cipher, code; communicate (writing, epistle.)
compose, draft, indite, frame, draw up, formulate, turn out; collaborate.
–III. Adjectives. written, scriptural, superscript, subscript, postscript, adscript, in writing, in black and white.
handwritten, longhand, Spencerian, autographic, chirographic, calligraphic, macrographic, micrographic; cursive, running, flowing, legible.
scrawly, scribbly, scrabbly, sprawling, sprawly, cacographic, cramped, illegible, indecipherable.
WRITER,–I. Nouns. writer, scribe, penman, calligraphist, chirographer, yeoman (U.S.Navy), clerk, copyist, transcriber, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, stenographer, tachygrapher, shorthand writer, phonographer, stenotypist, typist; correspondent, drafter, composer, framer, inditer, inscriber, recorder, redactor, registrar, transcriber, autographer.
author, authoress, litterateur (F.), free lance, collaborator, coauthor, essayist, pamphleteer, tractator; novelist, fictionist, allegorist, anecdotist, fabulist, folklorist, memorialist, narrator, parabolist, romancer, scenarist, serialist, taleteller, storyteller, yarner; playwright, dramatist, librettist, poet; contributor, columnist, paragraphist; hack writer, hack.
A Perfect Scrabble Game
scr I be
A uthoress
me M orialist
tr A ctator
play W right
R omancer
librett I st
tale T eller
an E cdotist
ya R ner
Any way you say it…
I AM A WRITER
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[1]The New Roget’s Thesaurus, Norman Lewis, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1964, pp. 549-550.
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