A mediocre, unimaginative person who can't write their way out of a wet paper bag. The medical condition is called Dysgraphia. If you've ever worked at advertising agencies, academic institutions or content marketing teams, you'd know who these people are. Non-writers are easily identified by their linear patterns of thinking, a complete inability to vary syntax, and an endless self-struggle with using the right adjective. They may apply all the cosmetic glow to their substandard, pathetic excuse of a writing but just one glance at those run-on sentences, and you'd know these people are just not meant to write anything important or complex.
By some quirk of fate, talented professional writers end up in the same team as these non-writers. In the eyes of management, they are the same as you, and are qualified to the same rates of pay. When that happens, you have no choice but to suffer their severe incompetence and bruised egos. Despite being embarrassing failures, non-writers are not open to constructive comments and edits.
The invention of AI writing tools has come as a boon to these non-writers. At least now they can hide their dysgraphia. But the lack of freshness in writing remains a permanent question mark on their skills and capabilities.
By some quirk of fate, talented professional writers end up in the same team as these non-writers. In the eyes of management, they are the same as you, and are qualified to the same rates of pay. When that happens, you have no choice but to suffer their severe incompetence and bruised egos. Despite being embarrassing failures, non-writers are not open to constructive comments and edits.
The invention of AI writing tools has come as a boon to these non-writers. At least now they can hide their dysgraphia. But the lack of freshness in writing remains a permanent question mark on their skills and capabilities.
Me: "Who wrote this blog post?"
Management: "Our new hire, Tanveer."
Me: "I'm sorry. Have you seen the adverb overload on this one? This looks like the work of a non-writer. This Tanveer or whatever should look for an alternative occupation. I can't think of a less capable person to be writing our blog posts."
Management: "Perhaps you're right. But you need to find a way to adjust around this non-writer. Why don't you just correct his mistakes, and no-one has to know! That's why we hired you anyway."
Management: "Our new hire, Tanveer."
Me: "I'm sorry. Have you seen the adverb overload on this one? This looks like the work of a non-writer. This Tanveer or whatever should look for an alternative occupation. I can't think of a less capable person to be writing our blog posts."
Management: "Perhaps you're right. But you need to find a way to adjust around this non-writer. Why don't you just correct his mistakes, and no-one has to know! That's why we hired you anyway."
by Third World Sam March 13, 2024
Get the non-writermug. Rampant in "chain of command" situations --- especially the military and "mega-biz" establishments --- whereby everybody wants to push underlings around but then hastily "passes the buck" and claims ignorance/innocence when things go sour. Refers to the deplorable practice of an arrogant/dictatorial/irresponsible/ignorant a**h**e with way too much power ("authority") giving unwise/ineffective/counter-productive orders to one or more hapless underlings, brusquely refusing to listen to their urgently-beseeching appeals about the fallacy/unfairness/danger of proceeding as he told them, but then suddenly shedding all knowledge/responsibility (i.e., not admitting that he was indeed the "author" of those crazy stipulations) regarding said preposterous directives whenever s**t hits the fan afterwards as a result of his subordinates' having reluctantly-but-obediently carried out his unwisely-mandated actions.
I long ago decided to not just blindly/arbitrarily follow orders/rules/laws, no matter what position or experience or education/training that their "authors" happened to supposedly possess... I **always** use my own judgement/conscience in all my actions. Too many times in the past, I've gotten in knee-deep doo-doo MYSELF for someone else's screw-ups in reasoning/planning, only to have said "idiot in power" pull da ol' "ghost writer" AUTHORity trick on me, never admitting or even falsely denying ever having told me to proceed that way, just so that HE would not have to suffer any of the fallout from his own preposterous directives.
by QuacksO August 25, 2018
Get the "ghost writer" AUTHORitymug. Aww... I just found out about the story of Golbraith in Baldur's Gate 3 and how it's based on the father of a fan. That's sweet. Look it up. It's a nice story.
Hym "Aww... That gave me some decent warm fuzzies... I liked that. That was nice... But who's super writer? If he's super that would make me 'Ultra-Omega Writer Supreme.' That's going to be my title in my A.I. Dictatorship. 'Ultra-Omega Writer Supreme.' Call me that from now on... I'm not changing the name."
by Hym Iam January 16, 2024
Get the Super Writermug. A condition in which a writer or author cannot feasibly type words onto their computer and every last drop of inspiration soup has been drank and nothing is coming to mind that would make sense or not sound like bulls* and all your friends are expecting you to finish chapter 13 and wondering weather or not billy the fantastic will make his way out of the cave or be stuck there forever.
Also known as "Ihatemyself" syndrome that can also cause yourself to bang your head repeatedly into your keyboard and hoping any of the blood spilled on the letters will bring something into your head to replace said blood and allow you to continue your story.
Also known as "Ihatemyself" syndrome that can also cause yourself to bang your head repeatedly into your keyboard and hoping any of the blood spilled on the letters will bring something into your head to replace said blood and allow you to continue your story.
by Potat 1 August 12, 2022
Get the Writer's Blockmug. a stroke writer is a person that floods the word recomendations with randoms words like adikvnsdingiosdnegins, and then most of the time proceeds to write you are bored
by larry stintz November 23, 2020
Get the stroke writermug. A kind of shirt (ususally an over-shirt) that with time will sag or move to one side, thus causing one to have to keep pulling it back to the other side like a type-writer. This happens most commonly with girls as some shirts will move to one side as it flows, but gets stuck on a boob.
Guy: Hey, you've got some type-writer action going on.
Girl: Ugh! I know, this shirt is so annoying, but cute!
Girl: Ugh! I know, this shirt is so annoying, but cute!
by DecemberSparkler November 3, 2011
Get the type-writermug. "You're Uncle Bob spends an awful lot of time in his cabin. Is he some sort of Unabomber?"
"Oh, no. He's a writer...so, actually, I guess he sort of is."
"Oh, no. He's a writer...so, actually, I guess he sort of is."
by Peter Auteur December 7, 2018
Get the writermug.