It has begun to occur to me that there is a difference between people who are readers and people who have become writers without being readers.

For the record, only some 5% of people are book readers on a daily and weekly basis, whereas 85% of people want to be writers. Generally the people who are writing articles about how to write are repeating, ad nauseum, what they read from other people writing. They aren't actually writers, and therefore they have no idea what they are talking about.

And precisely because they aren't readers, they don't realize how much the change of topic is to someone who enjoys reading. When I read something, I mull about it for an hour or two. I get really annoyed when someone wants to speak to me (introvert) or they change the subject at the end of the article.

It completely changes the direction of the article from having something to say to becoming a public relations exercise. It desstroys those moments when one thinks about what the author/writer is saying. It has switched attention from what the reader has just read to a personal relationship with the writer.

I find that fucking annoying. I'm not swearing at you. I'm expressing my frustration at being distracted from what I was reading about a few seconds ago.

I have just taken the time to read some of your articles. Either you don't read a lot of books or English is not your first language. When people read a lot, they instinctively get the word order right- you don't. I'm betting that while you might read on the web, and maybe you read a book once or twice a year, you are not one of us who have read a book at least once a week for a lifetime since you were 7 or 8 years old.

In the real world, it is readers who thank writers for such an exquisite piece of writing, for the stories they are told, for the information given. Read thorugh my thousands and thousands of reviews and comments, and you will note over and over again how readers thank me. Go to Ko-fi, to Patreon where people support me and see the same thing.

I am doing the work. I am providing the reader with something. I am giving something to the reader. It is not the other way round. When a writer thanks a reader for reading, they are implying that the reader is doing them a favor, and I suppose, if the writer seldom gets read, that is true.

If that is the case, then the writer needs to consider a) that they actually don't have what it takes to be a writer, and that is why they have so few readers b) that they need to learn about algorithms and SEO to put their writing where people can see it.

But saying thank you to the reader? Perhaps people who don't read frequently feel good about being thanked. I get annoyed because I was enjoying reading something, and suddenly someone removed my focus and attention from what I was reading and thanked me for something - I wasn't doing them a favor. I was gratifying myself.