Why do some people who follow me on Twitter not respond to my direct Tweets? (...a notch on somebody's belt?)?

It may be because they have too many other followers and didn't notice your tweets. For people I know in person, that's most often been the case when they didn't respond to my direct tweets.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.