As you already know, Mr. Beatty has offered you a position with theHonourable East India Company as an apprentice writer.

We see the apprentice writer trying to transform his raw autobiography into art, with varying success.

A book by an apprentice writer about why the poor are poor and what should be done about it would probably not be a book you'd want to read today.

And certainly with his journeyman status he was much better off than an apprentice writer, who was generally required to wear some such costume as a Grecian tunic, Roman toga, monkish robes, or doublet-and-hose along with a starchy wide ruff.

Then, "I got to be an apprentice writer," he said, "through my uncle, who was a master wave-guide plumber."

Right at the start of their short sprint Gaspard sighted a slowly cruising roadster packed with apprentice writers.

Orwell had seen Miller's Paris with his own eyes, and in the essay he gets some jabs in, of the sort that he probably felt unready for when he was still an apprentice writer.

And Kunin, the self-dramatizing, self-pitying apprentice writer, is another one of those perpetual students, reminiscent of Treplyov, the aspiring writer in "The Seagull," or Trofimov in "The Cherry Orchard."

In Season 1 of SNL, as apprentice writers, the two shared a salary of $350 per week.

Of the methodology, Alfred Bendixen wrote in The New York Times that "The book shows that a group of apprentice writers can collaborate and produce a highly readable tale in a relatively short period of time.