I anyone reading this blog?

    I have sponsored blogs on personal web sites. I've responded regularly to blogs like Quora. The web page stats usually said dozens of people were subscribed, but almost no one ever left a question or a comment.

    This blog could be very useful to readers, fans and beginning writers. The bloggers here have wide experience, as writers, as readers themselves and as human beings with amazing life experiences. We are a willing resource, a tappable resource. Why don't we regularly see questions and comments on our Posts?  Are we not writing about what you are interested in? Have you ever said anything in a comment?  

    I respond to questions. They are mental spark plugs for me. I blog only once every other Sunday. Even so, dreaming up a topic can be seriously hard sometimes. Your head is involved in a project, your house and family, or society's bad manners, and your head is absorbed in that life trivia. I welcome questions!

    First, it means you read my stuff. Writers like that. Did you understand my point? Was my logic faulty? Are my assumptions and prejudices showing?  Let's discuss.

    Second, I like to talk writing, mystery and SF, but anything is fair game. I have some interesting (I think) life background and I use it in my writing. We can talk about where my ideas came from. Are you trying to write, but having trouble gaining momentum? We've been there. We've struggled with trying to submit and sell our stories. We've had to find markets, struggled with learning How To Submit. We didn't know our options, until other writers, in message groups, newsletters and blogs like this, mentioned something that made all the difference. Writers should be tapping into the authors here.

    Writers almost always want to hear from people who read their stories. Almost, allowing for the occasional troll. I was surprised by a reader in England who was fascinated by a secondary character in a one-off mystery story that was published there. I knew the character was a good one, with lots of life experience, but that written story was about the main character. It was intended as a single story, but now I'm working on a sequel centered on that secondary character, and two other story ideas have popped up, to be written later.  All because a reader saw something in a character and mentioned it to me. I'm glad she did. I like that character and her story is turning out to be quite interesting.