You said it straight – people, passive consumers, tend not to understand writers aren’t vending machines. Pop a coin in and a book pops out. Nope. It’s draining work at the best of times. Not writing is the far easier route – I feel you… but then what are we all here for? Just taking up oxygen is a copout. Naysayers are a scourge. As for passive aggressive people who block or blank others – never mind, it’s their issue, in so far as they don’t bother to explain. Keep doing you, Shannon. That’s all any of us can do.