The Dream Quest of Unknown Me

It's the implication within the rant that writers have an obligation to finish a story even if the momentum leaves them, and again that Ladycat has no real life problems that would interfere with her finishing a story. That statement alone clearly shows you know nothing of her situation, which is why you are in the middle of a mini-kerfufle. Like it or not you have hurt someone with your statements after the original rec, and again you've hurt every other writer who may have abandoned a fic that no longer came easily by implying that we are somehow indebted to the readers when we receive nothing in return but a few comments here and there. Feedback is nice, but that isn't what keeps writers going, what keeps us going is the need to write, and when something like this happens it makes it very easy to say 'whatever, any desire I had is now gone because the fun has been taken away and now it feels like a job'. Fandom isn't a job, it's a retreat, and when people start making fandom stressful by crossing that line between reader and cattle prod, it ceases being fun.