In my case, That One Famous Writer is a she. Everything else fits to a T. Thank you for writing this, and thank you to the people who responded. There's certainly a bread-and-circuses segment of Medium, and as they say "give the people what they want." Anyway, I feel less alone, because I want to push my writing to a more serious level, and feel a bit like an endangered species in that regard, so thanks (fwiw) for the encouragement (fwiw) I got from your piece and its responders.