User blog comment:Tdiandrockmusic2/Am I Anonymous?/@comment-1874924-20110111053001

I suspect that part of the problem is that you were pretty inactive for a while, so people might have gotten out of the habit of looking for your stuff, such as the blog posts where you previewed and announces Winds of Change. Another factor is that you're not the only one-time regular who's been relatively inactive of late, and those are mainly the people who know you. Stay active, do what you can to spread the word, and the readers will eventually come. Your writing has come a long way in the last 18 months, and I would imagine it's only going to get better.

It wasn't so bad when the Visit Counter was working more or less regularly, because you could get some idea of what kind of traffic a story was getting even if people weren't commenting. That's how I knew TDI-G&S and Courtney and the Violin of Despair}CatVoD were getting good traffic, even though people weren't commenting. (Both stories are still severely underdiscussed.) Unfortunately, nowadays the Visit Counter isn't working most of the time, so it's not really an effective feedback tool right now.

This is probably still quite a way off, but one thing you can to when WoC gets farther along is put it on the FS ballot. If you continue as you have begun, it will be good enough to merit consideration, and I don't need to tell you that most voters leave comments. Indeed, the comments of FS voters who have voted for (and, occasionally, against) TDI-G&S and CatVoD is how I have gotten most of my feedback.

In the meantime, I'll see if I can work a plug for Winds of Change into my upcoming anniversary blog. That post will feature the "lost" Legacy chapter, which should attract a lot of eyeballs.