But there are also many old, out-of-use words for very specific types of writers (and also terrible writers). At the risk of ...

A.J. Jacobs has been writing with an old-fashioned quill for a year ... so Jacobs wrote his draft on cotton-rag paper, which the founders used for more mundane documents. Photograph by National ...

But there are also many old, out-of-use words for very specific types of writers (and also terrible writers). At the risk of being a puffer, here are some obscure things to call a quill-driver.