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Every genre is a hack genre. Thrillers, Romances, Fantasy, Sci Fi, Detective, Chic Lit; you name it. The exceptions are the genres so unpopular that it's not ec
by wisty 15y ago
Every genre is a hack genre. Thrillers, Romances, Fantasy, Sci Fi, Detective, Chic Lit; you name it. The exceptions are the genres so unpopular that it's not economic for the hacks to get into (such as Poetry, or Magical Realism, or Travel Writing), and then you simply get the wannabes instead.
Like Mozart, she created a lot of works that she and her fans really loved.
- unalone 15y ago"Hack" as in "Hacker" rather than in "that writer is such a hack". Sorry for the ambiguity. :-) Although speaking as a poet, poetry is absolutely a hack genre, and so's magical realism and travel writing. Poetry: uses line breaks to create tension within individual sentences using enjambment, creates a visual structure that helps guide the reader from line to line, stanza to stanza. Magical realism: similar to surrealism in that it breaks the confines of reality to make a deeper, "truer" statement. Travel writing: literally hacks the world by creating a map of information (if you meant travel guides) and emotion (if you meant travel literature) which connects with the world around it. A way of bringing people to the rest of the world without the cost of gas/plane tickets/a horse/oxen.