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. A human-like species fueled on coffee, criticizes themselves. The mating call of writers is the sound of pages flipping.
by Redder21 January 27, 2019
Get the Writermug. Used to define characters who are poorly written despite their abilities and potential they could have
Flash is one of the most powerful characters in DC. No joke. But the writers make him so he doesn’t live up to title because of writer’s disease
by Raptor-777 May 15, 2025
Get the Writer’s diseasemug. 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. Is a time of day when a writer get all their ideas and thoughts about what he/she wants to write about
Dude: bro I can’t think of anything to write can you give me ideas.
Bro: dude just wait till your writers high then you will know what to do.
Bro: dude just wait till your writers high then you will know what to do.
by Hentaijoker September 10, 2020
Get the writers highmug. A writer who's primary goal is to make any children in their chosen media suffer as much as possible. Examples: Made in the Abyss, Fuga Melodies of Steel, Asura's Wrath, and so on.
"Don't you find an odd pattern in eastern media where children often seem to just get brutalized?" "Well yea, they got Japanese writers. Best way to get the empathy or shock out of someone is to show a child experiencing the worst #### known to man."
by GarbageGoose December 14, 2023
Get the Japanese Writermug. Someone talked to a Generative AI to preform a task as part of their job or consistent hobby.
Tasks may include: Generating reports off a companies private dataset, Fact checking against court records that were trained by an official source, Human to AI assistant relations, Testing of LLM, and Graphic Art / Audio / Video rendering
Tasks may include: Generating reports off a companies private dataset, Fact checking against court records that were trained by an official source, Human to AI assistant relations, Testing of LLM, and Graphic Art / Audio / Video rendering
Just got hired as a "Prompt Writer" at this automotive company. Apparently they scanned in like, the last 80 years of documents they have ever had and now I can just ask about any of it. So making line graphs is night and day.
I'm so happy the courts trained a modal with their court records. I was to tired of putting in information requests to pull physical files. I had to get reauthorize as a "Prompt Writer"?, But is basically lets me just log into their gov site and ask for the stenographer's transcript of any case at any date that I have access to. Even translates the shorthand for me.
I'm so happy the courts trained a modal with their court records. I was to tired of putting in information requests to pull physical files. I had to get reauthorize as a "Prompt Writer"?, But is basically lets me just log into their gov site and ask for the stenographer's transcript of any case at any date that I have access to. Even translates the shorthand for me.
by PunkMage May 14, 2024
Get the Prompt Writermug.