Gifted hacks are known for their volume but also their basic ability at the sentence level, to spit out bare-bones workmanlike prose. Rowling fancies herself a literary auteur, though, hences lines like 'The suddenness and completeness of death was with them like a presence'.
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A hack who knows they're a hack would probably not have produced that sentence. She was trying REALLY hard to sound profound and poetic; she absolutely has delusions about her ability and creativity and imagination.
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Gifted with a good marketing push and right book at the right time.
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The word is not "gifted" it's "lucky" or "exploitable" or "easily marketed". This NEED to turn HP into anything but a pretty bog-standard, overlong, marketing-bubble-driven children's story blows my freakin' mind. I've loved some garbage of similar quality but I admit it sucks.
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Hacks don't write that badly, they normally are able to churn out stuff that doesn't throw attention to their limitations. Plus she has too much ego to be a hack or she would have learned something from her stylistic mistakes at some point.
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I mean, John Grisham is basically the definition of "hack" and damn if The Firm doesn't lay out all his inability to write or concieve of women as people plain as day.
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As a hack of the highest order I find it insulting she got called a gifted one. Twelve publishers turned her down until somebody figured out how to market her. I haven't even tried going through that but I'm sure I wouldn't have as much trouble.
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