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	ooBdoo
		A writer may compose in many different forms, including (but not limited to) poetry, prose, or music.
		Writers' output frequently contributes to the cultural content of a society, and that society may value its writerly corpus -- or literature -- as an art much like the visual arts (see: painting, sculpture, photography), music, craft and performance art (see: drama, theatre, opera, musical).
		For instance, advertising creatives, gag-writers and graffiti artists also refer to themselves as "writers." In these contexts, "writer" may be considered an alternative use of the term, rather than describing a so-called "literary" or "serious" writer as discussed above.
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=Writer (311 words)

	hack - definition by dict.die.net
		Hack writer, a hack; one who writes for hire.
		Hack saw, a handsaw having a narrow blade stretched in an iron frame, for cutting metal.
		They include `happy hacking' (a farewell), `how's hacking?' (a friendly greeting among hackers) and `hack, hack' (a fairly content-free but friendly comment, often used as a temporary farewell).
	dict.die.net /hack (736 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		Noun meaning "an act of hacking" is from 1836; fig.
		Special sense of "one who writes anything for hire" led to hackneyed "trite" (1749); hack writer is first recorded 1826, though hackney writer is at least 50 years earlier.
		Hack (v.) "illegally enter a computer system" is first recorded 1984.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=hack (782 words)

	Frank P Baron - Writers Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hack: A writer who is not as good as you are.
		A legitimate agent works for a percentage of a writer's income and does not collect any other fees, though s/he may expect the writer to defray some of the expense of submission.
		Since publication is based not on the worth of the writer’s words but on the girth of the writer’s wallet, vanity-published authors aren’t respected.
	www.frankbaron.com /writersglossary.htm (993 words)

	Hack Writer Meets Earnest Painter (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-1.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		arry Forrest is an upscale hack writer with a gimmick, and Georgia Whyte is a painter with a singular determination and vision.
		She is supposed to represent ambition (her painting), and the plot concerns the several damaging entanglements (varieties of love) she has successfully avoided in order to dedicate herself to her artistic vision.
		Just could possibly have had in mind when he selected two writers so far apart on the spectrum of artistic reputation for Harry to compare his writing to, for no real comparisons are possible, either between Samuel Beckett and Francoise Sagan, or between them and Harry Forrest's Inspector Pease.
	partners.nytimes.com.cob-web.org:8888 /books/99/05/02/specials/just-ambition.html (674 words)

	Hack - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Hack writer, a writer for hire, paid to express others' thoughts and opinions, or a writer or journalist of dubious talent
		Hack (technology slang), a joke, a programming exploit, or a commercial software break-in
		Spading fork or clam hack, with a short, bent handle, used to harvest clams
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Hack (288 words)

	Hacker History/Timeline...Infotechloco.com
		Shortly after, hackney was shortened to hack, and in riding culture the act of "hacking" (as opposed to fox-hunting) meant riding about informally, to no particular purpose.
		To this day the terms hack and hacker are used in several ways at MIT, without necessarily referring to computers.
		When MIT students surreptitiously put a police car atop the dome on MIT's Building 10, that was a hack, and the students involved were therefore hackers.
	www.infotechloco.com /timelinehackerhistory.html (719 words)

	XML.com: Hacking Open Office
		OpenOffice.org's Writer application (I'm using version 1.1.2 on Linux and 1.1.3 on Windows XP) is open to customization and configuration.
		Writer not only has styles for paragraphs and sub-paragraph text-spans, but it has separate styles for lists.
		If you start up Writer, (remember to shut down OpenOffice.org completely first) then you will be able to point and click to apply styles or use the keyboard, starting with ALT-S and then hitting the underlined characters to delve into the menus (at least you will once we install the macros needed to apply styles).
	www.xml.com /pub/a/2005/01/26/hacking-ooo.html (4333 words)

	Hack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hack writer, a writer paid to express others' thoughts and opinions, or a writer of dubious talent
		Roof and tunnel hacking, a form of urban exploration
		Hack (masonry), a row of stacked unfired bricks protected from the rain
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hack (185 words)

	Pindeldyboz: Becoming a Hack by Karin Round
		And I do find hope, at least up until page 28 where she writes, "Your embryo journalist or hack writer seldom asks for help of any sort; he is off after agents and editors while his more serious brother-in-arms is suffering the torments of the damned because of his insufficiencies."
		A Hack is to a period what an Embryonic writer is to a comma and a Yearner is to a dash.
		An Embryonic writer writes about the day her grandmother died, about how she learned to ride a bike, and why flossing teeth is a good idea, because it all might be relevant someday, and besides she just thought of something else to add.
	www.pindeldyboz.com /kmrhack.htm (1267 words)

	G4 - Feature - The Roots of the Word 'Hacker'
		Or take the word hack, as in "hack writer." That was originally a shortening of hackney, which referred to a horse that was easy to ride.
		In Shakespeare's time the words hack and hackney were synonyms for "prostitute." Then it was applied to any incompetent work, as in a hack job.
		Probably these new senses owed as much to the use of hack to mean "chop," which was what had given rise to phrases such as tennis hacker and golf hacker, and it may owe something to "hacking around," too.
	g4tv.com /techtvvault/features/28005/The_Roots_of_the_Word_Hacker.html (390 words)

	Worst Hack Horror Writer - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
		I don't think of Anne Rice as a hack, her new novels may suck but IWTV and The Vampire Lestat are solid.
		To me, you become a hack when you either rely on the same formula over and over and over without even trying to deviate, and/or when you know and they know they are way past their prime but continue anyway because they know they have a built in money cache...I mean, fan base.
		So, rather than just be a hack, I think she got carried away by her own hype, and the books that she's brought out since are exercises in her personal daydreams (largely homoerotic in nature) which aren't getting shaped or overseen in any way.
	www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=62957 (2067 words)

	Hack Writer: Poems, Stories, Plays
		In Hack Writer, Dan Sklar’s writing is the plain speaking language of Walt Whitman.
		It is what Henry David Thoreau would call the poetry of "healthy speech." The themes are strictly middle-class and as direct as a green Buick.
		Hack Writer is a bright house filled with music.
	www.authorhouse.com /BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~5618.aspx (547 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Hack Master (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Master your Palm handheld; O'Reilly releases "Palm and Treo Hacks".
		Take 5: Trainer's hacks - 'A trainer can see far more from the top of a hack than out of the window of a 4x4'.(Sports)
		Hack and tweak your way to the best PC performance possible; O'Reilly releases "PC Hacks".
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Hack+Master (235 words)

	How To Hack
		It is used especially among university computing center staff, such as those at MIT and Stanford in the period beginning approximately in the mid- 1960s and ending in the 1980s.
		Originally, a hack meant a quick fix to a computer program problem, as in "That hack you made last night to the editor is working well".
		The term "hack" can be used to refer to a program that (sometimes illegally) modifies another program, giving the user access to features otherwise inaccessible to him or her.
	www.econtentos.com /how-to-hack.htm (1016 words)

	4-24-2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		If you are unable to picture the writer being hung up with writer's block, then they are, in all likelihood, a hack.
		Dean Koontz is a hack for copyrighting the name of his main character, Dirk Pitt, and following his name with everywhere it appears on the book jacket, including the summary on the back cover, like he's an action figure.
		And the clearest sign that I'm a hack: I had writer's block, and yet here I am, at the end of the column, and I still don't know what the fuck I'm going to write about.
	www.iowaline.net /columns/aaron042401 (558 words)

	David H. Hackworth [hackworth.com]
		Hack was working on a book about "Leadership" when he died.
		I was fortunate enough to know Hack as both a warrior and a person.
		As has always been the case, E was with him at the time and he left in peace knowing she was there.
	www.hackworth.com (3787 words)

	Roger L. Simon: From one hack to another
		He is inarguably a successful writer, but that's a horse of another color.
		By his own admission, he's a hack -- so, as you point out, are other, much better writers.
		Scott Fitzgerald is my favorite hack writer, for example, but the list goes on and on.
	www.rogerlsimon.com /mt-archives/2006/04/from_one_hack_t.php (979 words)

	About HACK or NOT - A Resource For Writers and Authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		HACK or NOT allows you, the user, to read samples of other users' writing and give them your opinion.
		On a simple 1 to 10 scale, let them know whether they are closer to being a wordsmith (good writer) or a hack (bad writer).
		At the moment, in addition to the central function of writing evaluation, HACK or NOT also offers the The HACK or NOT Store for Writers which features useful references from Amazon.com.
	www.jjjwebdevelopment.com /306sites/hackornot/about.htm (198 words)

	Re: hack writer
		In Reply to: Re: hack writer posted by ESC on July 22, 2003
		: : On the back of one of the books written by the late Canadian writer, Mordecai Richler, there is a sentence which goes: "an academic turned hack writer".
		: To call someone a "hack" writer means he or she just grinds out the work for money.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/22/messages/694.html (175 words)

	Passionate Blog: Writer, reporter, journalist or hack... (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-1.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It was the "don't get me started!" comment that made me think you were being down on people call themselves writers, because usually that is said in a negative way with an eye roll and a pur-lease...
		Hack: A tabloid journalist who has apparently confused his job with that of crime-fighting sidekick.
		'Hack' smacks of someone who spits in the eye of authority and who would shaft his grandma for a page lead.
	passionatemedia.typepad.com.cob-web.org:8888 /my_weblog/2006/09/writer_reporter.html (2799 words)

	EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - Lovecraft: Hack or Genius?
		HPL was cursed/blessed with being considered a "writer's writer".
		Appreciated by writers who drew inspiration from (and in some cases, improved upon) the themes he explored---but unappreciated by his own audience.
		Raymond Chandler wasn't a very good mystery writer (as you point out, his plots generally didn't make sense, or in some cases were unresolved), but he definitely wasn't a hack*.
	www.enworld.org /showthread.php?t=116243 (3265 words)

	Re: hack writer
		In Reply to: Re: hack writer posted by BB on July 22, 2003
		: : To call someone a "hack" writer means he or she just grinds out the work for money.
		I can't recall their Dutch name, but it soon turned into 'hackney'in English and the taxis themselves were called 'hackney carriages' - a term still used for a certain type of taxi in Britain.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/22/messages/698.html (275 words)

	Lydia Sigourney
		Her poetry, like her prose, was about public subjects-history, slavery, missionary work, as well as current events-or treated personal matters, especially loss and death, as experiences common to all.
		One might wonder why such an accomplished writer and skillful business negotiator who was enormously famous in her own day is no longer recognized.
		Part of the answer lies in the types of works she published; her moralizing is viewed today as old-fashioned, irrelevant, and in some circles just plain wrong.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/american_poetry/102419 (435 words)

	What constitutes a "hack writer"? - Jinxworld Forums
		I think a shitty writer is a shitty writer, but when you know you're bad and make no effort to improve your craft because you're drawing a steady paycheck yer a hack.
		i think a hack is when they supposedly 'create' a new book and its so obvious that its a current seller with a different name on it.
		Traditionally a hack is someone who sacrificed artisitic integrity for a pay check.
	www.606studios.com /bendisboard/showthread.php?t=27319&page=1&pp=10 (582 words)

	The writer as hack - theage.com.au
		To commemorate the centenary of John Steinbeck's birth, one of his most respected biographers and a respected scholar have produced a selection of his journalism and feature writing.
		Steinbeck was not only a prolific writer of fiction but also wrote constantly for magazines and newspapers.
		As well as the many repetitions, which the editors would surely have done well to eliminate and, more interestingly, the contradictions, as in his views on Hiroshima, it has the inevitable ephemerality of journalism.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/04/29/1019441338072.html (689 words)

	I Worked For A Hack Writer
		A sort of rough copy of the music was sent to the writer, and he, invariably, wrote back saying that he LOVED the way the song was going to be arranged and he LOVED the melody.
		Those regular published copies that the company turned out used to be kept around the office except for those that were sent to the writer.
		My years of experience as a music publisher's arranger (as well as one who has done a lot of arranging for new songwriters) leads me to believe that people LIKE being gyped, and I've lost a lot of customers by being brutally frank.
	www.songpoemmusic.com /hack.htm (1364 words)

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