An Open Letter to Mr. Professional Writer

Dear Mr. Professional Writer,

I understand how you believe all those amateur hacks are ruining the genre. Really, I do. They can't write their way out of the proverbial wet sack. (funny how most sacks are plastic now, isn't it? kind of ruins the image)

But I'm an amateur hack myself, and find your bullying of those who aren't of "genius" stature (in your own, august estimation) quite, well, disgusting. I wish could find a better word than disgusting, but I am, after all, a hack. A rank amateur hac