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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who writes copy to be used by an announcer, performer, or director in a film or broadcast.
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- noun A person who writes
scripts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now, I don't know if she ever followed up; I'd like to think that she did and is now a big-name scriptwriter making big bucks; but what this story illustrates to me is the culture that it the media-biz down in LaLaLand, which is to say, passing weird.
Archive 2009-01-01 Steve Perry 2009
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Now, I don't know if she ever followed up; I'd like to think that she did and is now a big-name scriptwriter making big bucks; but what this story illustrates to me is the culture that it the media-biz down in LaLaLand, which is to say, passing weird.
Archive 2006-11-01 Steve Perry 2006
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Now, I don't know if she ever followed up; I'd like to think that she did and is now a big-name scriptwriter making big bucks; but what this story illustrates to me is the culture that it the media-biz down in LaLaLand, which is to say, passing weird.
Adventures in Hollywood Steve Perry 2006
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Disc one includes an audio commentary for episode 5, featuring Todd Haberkorn (Dub ADR director & voice of Allen) and Luci Christan (voice of Lenalee and dub scriptwriter), while disc two has the obligatory creditless opening and closing sequences.
Mania News Feed 2010
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"It makes you want to call the scriptwriter's mother to suggest that she have her son examined," she said.
JAM! Showbiz 2009
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Voters such as scriptwriter Fernando Orduna, 58, took part in a national movement that urged people to annul their votes or deface ballots to protest the largely government-funded political parties that have done little to break Mexico out of the doldrums.
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It's a lost art and it's a shame because when you have a scriptwriter and director along with others, you have the opportunity to collaborate and ask what the director wants for a particular scene, for instance.
Mike Ragogna: Grammytech 2: A Conversation With Bob Clearmountain, Plus Chatting With Steve Tyrell Mike Ragogna 2012
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It's a lost art and it's a shame because when you have a scriptwriter and director along with others, you have the opportunity to collaborate and ask what the director wants for a particular scene, for instance.
Mike Ragogna: Grammytech 2: A Conversation With Bob Clearmountain, Plus Chatting With Steve Tyrell Mike Ragogna 2012
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The 48-year-old actor and film-and-television scriptwriter says that by the end, he could no longer stand.
The Berlin Night Life: Dark...and Cool Christopher Lawton 2011
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Observers have been skeptical of the 16-member council, which is a "dream team" of academics, politicians from the stricken areas, a scriptwriter and even a Buddhist monk.
Building Anew Out of Tsunami's Rubble Yoree Koh 2011
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- advertising writer
- annalist
- art critic
- author
- authoress
- belletrist
- bibliographer
- choreographer
- coauthor
- collaborator
- columnist
- comedian
- compiler
- composer
- copywriter
- creative writer
- critic
- dance critic
- diarist
- drama critic
- dramatist
- dramatizer
- dramaturge
- encyclopedist
- essayist
- farcer
- farceur
- farceuse
- farcist
- free lance
- free-lance writer
- gagman
- ghost
- ghostwriter
- humorist
- inditer
- joke writer
- jokesmith
- librettist
- literary artist
- literary craftsman
- literary critic
- literary man
- litterateur
- logographer
- magazine writer
- man of letters
- melodramatist
- mimographer
- monodramatist
- monographer
- music critic
- newspaperman
- novelettist
- novelist
- pamphleteer
- penwoman
- play doctor
- play fixer
- playwright
- playwriter
- poet
- prose writer
- reviewer
- scenario writer
- scenarioist
- scenarist
- scribe
- short-story writer
- storyteller
- technical writer
- tragedian
- word painter
- wordsmith
- writer
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