Yes, the public offers to help me eat when I am flat broke drive me crazy because when I talk about being unable to make adequate income as a writer, that gets dismissed as "meh, sucks to be you." People use ad blocker, tell me Patreon is charity and expect good content to be free. Then I get pity money* once in a while when things are really bad.

And it's like, hello? 2+2=4. Can you not see how these issues are related? Geez.

* My apologies to the generous souls who have compassionately given me money at times so I could eat. But the reality is I would not need such gifts if I had enough regular income, but all efforts to establish an earned income fall on deaf ears.

Perhaps writing is a poor choice of profession for someone who desires a stable income.

I would rather be at the beach, but instead I'm stuck here in an office.