In its broadest use, the word Writer is used to account for the person who writes or is the author of any type of document or written workMeanwhile, the word is also used to designate those individuals who practice writing at a professional levelIn other words, they dedicate their lives to writing written or printed works, which are then edited by themselves or by publishing companies that market them in the corresponding market.
Although, it should be noted that the term is frequently more used in the second sense, that is, applied to the person who writes as a profession rather than to whom writing stands out as a circumstantial activity.
The profession of writer is one of the most valued in the world, since time immemorial.
Undoubtedly, those who are capable of writing a story have a unique gift that deserves that admiration.
Many authors have reached the level of celebrities and their book presentations turn out to be as popular and visited by their followers as are those performed by actors or musicians.
Types of writers according to the genre to which they dedicate themselves
Meanwhile, depending on the genre and literary composition to which the writer dedicates himself, he will receive different specific names depending on the work he performs: poet (the writer who is dedicated to writing poetry, being the most prominent in the Castilian language: Lope de Vega, Miguel de Cervantes and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer), novelist (that writer who deals with the writing of novels, which are literary works written in prose in which feigned actions are narrated in whole or in parts, with the aim of causing pleasure to readers from the descriptions of the events, passions and customs of the characters), essayist (writer devoted to writing essays, that prose work in which the author reflects on a specific topic), storyteller (writer for the writing of stories, the short narration of fictional or fantastic events that has didactic or recreational purposes) and the playwright (that author dedicated to the writing of plays).
Writing history
Writing, which is the action that consists of transferring thoughts, ideas, feelings, among others, to a paper or any other medium using signs that are normally letters that make up words, belonging to this or that language, is certainly millenary.
First, the human being exploited oral action, that is, he communicated through speech, and it was only in the year 3,000 B.C. that will begin to do so in writing. Of course, in these times he used all kinds of elements and supports to do so, the ones he had at his disposal (papyrus, stone, bone, parchment, paper), and without a doubt this moment marked a milestone in the history of mankind because it began to have written records of events and everything that happened around humanity.
And as a consequence, literature is born when writing is absolutely consolidated and will immediately allow writing the legends that until then were transmitted orally from generation to generation.
The alphabets began to be built as well and in some areas what was written began to have more weight than what was communicated through the oral route. The famous saying that sentences "the words are carried away by the wind" became flesh and reality and by case it is that especially in the judicial plane what is written has a greater power of proof than that said by someone to another.
And in the 15th century, the invention of the printing press allowed the fabulous dissemination of written works, the Bible was the first book to be printed thanks to it.
