Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers

Tasks

Core Tasks Include:

• Revise written material to meet personal standards and to satisfy needs of clients, publishers, directors, or producers.
• Choose subject matter and suitable form to express personal feelings and experiences or ideas, or to narrate stories or events.
• Plan project arrangements or outlines, and organize material accordingly.
• Prepare works in appropriate format for publication, and send them to publishers or producers.
• Follow appropriate procedures to get copyrights for completed work.
• Write fiction or nonfiction prose, such as short stories, novels, biographies, articles, descriptive or critical analyses, and essays.
• Develop factors such as themes, plots, characterizations, psychological analyses, historical environments, action, and dialogue to create material.
• Confer with clients, editors, publishers, or producers to discuss changes or revisions to written material.
• Conduct research to obtain factual information and authentic detail, using sources such as newspaper accounts, diaries, and interviews.
• Attend book launches and publicity events, or conduct public readings.
• Collaborate with other writers on specific projects.

Supplemental Tasks Include:

• Write narrative, dramatic, lyric, or other types of poetry for publication.
• Write words to fit musical compositions, including lyrics for operas, musical plays, and choral works.
• Adapt text to accommodate musical requirements of composers and singers.
• Teach writing classes.
• Write humorous material for publication, or for performances such as comedy routines, gags, and comedy shows.

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