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Originally Posted by HarryT
Had this been the case, we wouldn't have had hack writers like Shakespeare and Dickens, both of whom wrote solely for the disgraceful commercial purpose of making money.
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I was expressing the opinion that without a reasonable chance to make money most writers would write far less, not that writers who write for money are hacks. Not that I have anything against hacks either. If their writing sells then they are pleasing their audience which could very well be me,
Helen