Real-time

Today (Monday) I am catching up on my Sunday newspapers. Twice I've come across the use of the word "real-time." Can anyone enlighten me as to the meaning of the word in these instances?

"There are three cliques of songwriters. There are the struggling songwriters like me, the newly signed just starting out and your real-time poets writing songs for the artists." Brendon Church, 22-year-old college student and music major, quoted in "Nashville mourns Cash: But country capital didn't always revere the man in Black" by Peter T. Kilborn with Marta Aldrich, New York Times News Service, reprinted in the Herald-Leader, Lexington, Ky., September 14, 2003.

"Tonight, HBO delves into Washington's lobbying industry. In K Street, a new half-hour show, Steven Soderbergh, a co-executive producer, is aiming for 'real-time fiction.' The show will depict a fictional firm of lobbyists and consultants, but will blend in real politicians, lawmakers and issues." From "Your Sunday: On TV," a column in the Herald-Leader, Lexington, Ky., September 14, 2003.

In the first instance, 'real' appears to mean genuine/committed/professional as opposed to "part-time" or "small-time".
In the second, a more technological use is implied - "real-time" in techno-babble means 'at the proper speed' or more casually put 'on the fly' - so a real-time drama or fiction would probably be one where things happen at their natural pace, not sped-up for dramatic intensity - so for example, a real-time cop show might feature a stake-out where the police are waiting around for hours with absolutely nothing of interest happening or maybe in a fictional office that people type for minutes or hours on end wihtout social interaction. Perhaps they want 'real-time' fiction to be drama with added boredom. It is accepted in mainstream story-telling, whether by novels, TV, oral tradition or theatre - that the boring bits where nothing crucial to the plot happens may be safely omitted.
Whilst one must then rely on the editing or the narrator, I think getting to the point is usually better than free-form.