letterhack
A fan who is a prolific writer of letters to periodicals.
Noun
- A fan who is a prolific writer of letters to periodicals.
- Nowadays a letter-hack says things simply, which is, after all, the best way. Take any good story. You don't find long, stilted sentences with long-winded descriptions (which was one reason I put ‘The Dimension of...
- LETTERHACK - An actifan who specializes in writing letters for zines. One of the simplest and yet the most effective phases of fanac. Give the letterhack a ream of paper, stamps, and one or two other letterhacks for him...
Origin
From letter + hack.
Forms
Synonyms
Verb
- To write letters to periodicals very frequently.
- It was in those letter columns that I was first exposed to the concept of fandom. Letterhacking was in high bloom in 1951; the letter columns were filled with chatty letters from all sorts of people, the names of whom I...