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fictioneer
[ fik-shuh-neer ]
Other yvlog Forms
- ھtDz·iԲ noun
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of fictioneer1
Example Sentences
The licences will allow fans to publish authorised stories set in the different fictional universes as ebooks for the Kindle, with royalties paid to both the original author and the fan fictioneer.
He's also a prolific blogger; an essential criteria for today's ambitious pulp fictioneer, when your readership are only ever a tweet away.
We can see by the time which he permitted to elapse between the first and second parts of his great romance how careful Cervantes was not to hazard his well-won reputation upon an unfortunate sequel, and the fictioneer of our own time, harassed by a public greedy for sensation and flushed by momentary success, might well turn to him for an example in this respect.
But Burroughs, that dauntlessly prolific pop fictioneer, had something more important on his mind when he dreamed up Tarzan: nothing less than the creation of a mythic figure who would encapsulate the Edwardian age's anguish over the way the virtues of the primitive life were being trampled by the irresistible march of industrialism and imperialism.
The author, whose collected works probably do not contain a four-letter word, changed '"bloody" to "ruddy" and dropped his last name for fear his bosses would regard an off-hours fictioneer as "not a serious person."
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What doesfictioneer mean?
A fictioneer is a fiction writer, especially one who puts out a lot of work considered mediocre or low quality.
The word fictioneer is most often applied to writers who churn out the kind of stories usually found in cheap, mass-market paperbacks, especially ones that snobs consider lowbrow “genre fiction,” such as romance novels, mysteries, or science fiction. However, it can also be used in a more neutral way as simply another (more fun) word for a fiction writer.
Example: Many highly regarded novelists started their careers as fictioneers who wrote under pseudonyms and published anything they could to scrape together a living.
Where doesھپDzԱcome from?
The term fictioneer is first recorded in English in the 1920s. It is made up of the word fiction, meaning “a work of imagination for entertainment purposes,” and the suffix -eer, which indicates a person who performs an action (as in auctioneer and engineer).
In its original sense, fictioneer simply referred to someone who wrote fiction to make a living. Over time, as pulp fiction and mass-market paperbacks became more popular, fictioneer became synonymous with hack, referring to prolific writers who produced stories quickly and one after another, often resulting in low quality work. Still, the term was and still is often used as a term of endearment, especially by those who enjoy the popular genres associated with the term.
Fictioneer is sometimes also applied to a nonfiction writer to imply that their accounts are exaggerated or made up.
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What are some other forms of fictioneer?
- fictioneering (noun)
What are some synonyms for fictioneer?
- hack
- fiction writer
What are some words that share a root or word element with fictioneer?
What are some words that often get used in discussing fictioneer?
What are some words fictioneer may be commonly confused with?
How isھپDzԱused in real life?
Fictioneer can be used negatively, positively, or neutrally, depending on what one wants to say about a fiction writer and the quality of their work. Still, it is most often associated with writers who produce a lot of work.
Good memoirists often show an economy of characterization, a swiftness of narrative pace, an ear for the kernel of dialogue, that put the mere fictioneer to shame.
John Fowles / Wormholes
— David Reader (@ThepaleUsher)
Being a fictioneer sometimes means spending an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out fantasy currency conversion rates.
— Paul D Storrie (@storrieville)
Fictioneer
— Paul (@dept42)
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True or false?
Fictioneer is always used as a derogatory (negative) term for a writer.
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