Arts and media
The Writing Trade
Drafts, editors, and the difference between a novel and a myth.
- Teens and up
- Confident · B2
- 12 words
The words
Every word in this set, with what it means. Tap a word to hear it.
- agent
- someone whose job is to arrange things for other people
- draft
- an early rough version of a piece of writing
- hook
- a bent piece of metal for hanging or catching things
- journal
- a magazine, or a diary of daily events
- autobiography
- a book someone writes about their own life
- editorial
- a newspaper article giving the paper's own opinion
- editor
- someone who checks and improves writing before it is published
- dialogue
- the words that characters say to each other
- plot
- the main events that make up a story
- novel
- a long story printed as a book
- myth
- an old story about gods and heroes
- biography
- a book telling the true story of someone's life
