There are many different types of authors; novelists, poets, journalists, screenwriters, playwrights, copywriters, and so on. There are also many genres of writing; academic, creative, business, professional, and journalistic. For as many different types of books and published writings there are in the world, there are as many different types of authors that write them. A story writer is typically a freelancer and specializes in writing short fiction stories for a variety of magazines. Many well-known authors started out as story writers.
