AITA for Not Bending Over Backward to Help a Writer?

There’s an asshole in this story so stick with it

I feel like a goof taking a picture off the first page, but this is how I sort of ended off. (Photo by Hannes Wolf on Unsplash)

I have a hard time saying no to people who ask for help. I will generally bend over backward for them to do it. But what I learned this time was even that wasn’t going to be enough.

TL;DR — I get it, this is one long MF’er, the good shit starts halfway down, but…