Yeah...kinda sad situation with Kanthony writers and readers, i guess(i think most readers are still hanging in thereš)...still remember the high of having all these fics regularly updated...the highest was yours(if i lose myself tonight and say my name are top of the top for me)i was wondering...are you in touch with any of them?well if you are tell them we are still waiting..mainly cacio..all the others do still post, albeit rarely...
There definitely are still readers around, but I will say, we do not hear from them nearly as much. I don't talk about this a lot because I don't want it to sound like I'm complaining or ungrateful at all - I hear a lot from readers on Tumblr and I really love those conversations. I know there are devoted readers trying to keep the fandom alive. But engagement IS way down. I get...probably a third of the hits/kudos/comments that I did a year ago. My average number of comments on a chapter now used to be what I got on a fic that I kind of considered as bombing lol, or just being less popular.
It was an adjustment but I still wanted to write, I still wanted to be part of the fandom, so I adapted. But I think it's important to say, only because there's a bit of a question of where all the authors went...but I think it happened on both sides, writers AND readers losing interest, and that's a self-fulfilling loop. A lot of people on both sides probably just lost the fever over time, which is totally normal. But writers do stop writing if there's less engagement, and readers do stop reading if there are fewer fics. I definitely don't mean to guilt anyone as I'm not the most prolific reader myself...but if you're reading a fic that you really love, just let the author know once in a while! It'll have more impact now than ever.
I am in touch with some of the writers, not all. Mostly they just seem busy with other things...such is life! But I'm sure they appreciate knowing that people are still thinking of them.
Here's what the deal is for me: I think about writing every day. I desperately want to continue K in Somerset and do more stories after that. I am still as obsessed with Kate and Anthony as I was 4 years ago. The short story is that last year I started a business and a few months ago I started to really feel the effects of what that has done to my leisure time. Then I descended into and am still wading through the worst depressive episode of my life. Then I got another job to pay for my first job and I'm working on getting a third job to help pay the bills. I am 100% not complaining, just letting anyone who may be wondering if I intend to keep posting that I absolutely do. Maybe that's not helpful information without an approximate date of return but it helps me when authors who have WIPs that haven't been updated in months or even years just let us know that they are still around and wanting to write, whether or not their current circumstances allow them to.
I'm very much on both sides of this. As a reader, I wish more people were writing and as a writer I wish *I* were currently writing.
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Same! I want to write nearly every day and I am always playing with ideas in my head, but life is hectic. My work takes up a ton of my brain power and after work I want to be present in my marriage, read some books, and also tend to my physical well being too. Iām still here reading, trying to write and finish my WIPs and still Kanthony obsessed.
