As per Gargoyle's comment--I was paid to write for many years, and the stuff I wrote was read, appreciated, and used by millions of people. Instruction manuals, ads, articles, ad naseum,to borrow a phrase. Most of the people who write for a living(and there are many, many, many of us) write for informational rather than aesthetic reasons. And since writing comes first, the number of readers, if any, is a circumstance, after the fact.

Even still, everyone who posts here is a writer, of necessity--and, if circulation is a criteria, folks like Katlaughing and John in Kansas, who have posted here steadily for years, have garnered a readership that most "published" authors would envy--

So you lose again, Gargoyle--and still, your venomous words have made you one of the most famous writers here--