Ought to be illegal: Copyright v. copywrite

If only some writers would quit violating the definitions of copyright and copywrite!

Copyright refers to the exclusive legal right to use artistic material. Its forms can serve as a noun (I own the copyright to my novel.), an adjective (copyrighted material), or verb (You should copyright your manuscript.).

Copywrite isn’t a word. Copywriter and copywriting are, however, and they refer to someone who pens text for a living. They typically are used as nouns (The English major’s first job out of college was as a copywriter or The English major’s first job out of college was in copywriting).

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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past decade, I’ve helped more than 300 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the 7 Minutes a Day… writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.