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RE: Who Do I Follow on Steem & Why? - A Tale of Two Halves

in OCD5 years ago (edited)

Hi m8 @hartfloe

I looked at uptrend a while ago but saw it was only crypto related content and didn't look again. I shall go sign up now. Is there anything you can recommend me to get going on there and potentially get seen (as well as making decent rewards I ain't gonna lie lol)

I am trying my best to branch out to give my writing a chance to actually sustain me properly. I've done well on steem, mainly by being one of the stalwarts who stuck it out through the bear market, but I'm always looking for new opportunities.

Message me on discord or facebook buddy. Perhaps we can get some type of poetic collaboration on the go.

Which reminds me... The Ink Well's first poetry prompt challenge will be out tomorrow. One that I think could be your cuppa tea ;-)

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Hey!

For sure, would love to collab. I've only just got on uptrennd myself... for now I'd say just join any communities you would like to contribute to and follow a similar procedure that you did getting started on Steemit - following people, upvoting, leaving meaningful comments, and posting good content!

I have started a 22 day poetry writing contest - there's no monetary prize, just the glory of being recognised haha and the joy of creating 22 new poetry pieces... check it out! Would love to have you contribute... I'm just trying to get things going a little there and get some new content creation in the poetry community, which is literally brand new! We are amongst the very first content creators there!

The post is here -

https://www.uptrennd.com/post-detail/22-day-poetry-creation-collaboration-calling-all-poets-of-the-uptrennd-poetry-community-let-s-get-creative~MjE5MTE1

And cool I will check it out for sure! Though everything I'm reading is giving me the impression that Steemit is kinda coming to an end after what's happened recently, which is a shame!

I'll join later today after I've finished writing this fantasy short story for the first fiction prompt we put up in the ink well on Monday.

Though everything I'm reading is giving me the impression that Steemit is kinda coming to an end after what's happened recently, which is a shame!

Yeah, there is a lot of panic and fear going around right now m8. I wouldn't believe the majority of the doomsayers. I'm not saying things aren't fucked up, but they're actually getting resolved quicker than you might think. Already 7 of the tron witnesses have been ousted by community action voting all the previous witnesses that we had back in before 'Tron Justin Sun' pulled his cheeky little maneuver.

I'm not saying cash in your savings and buy steem right now lol, but I am saying that anything you've read saying it's dead is not an objective article but something that has been written for sensationalist purposes. That type of writing sells as we're so aware of coming from the UK where the Sun announces that the whole of Britain is going to be hit with -45 temperatures and blizzard conditions every winter only to find that... four days later it hasn't snowed and the daffodils are starting to bloom lol

That 21 day poetry thing looks awesome @hartfloe.

Unfortunately the rules about no old poems ain't gonna work for me. I'm sure you're aware how much work it takes running an initiative.

With a steem community imagine that tripled. I'm writing pretty much daily for both my @raj808 account and The Ink Well community. On top of that I have to proofread a lot of work at times, on top of that I've several mainstream writing jobs that have deadlines and finally a chronic illness to manage.

These aren't excuses, they're circumstances that mean I am just about at my full stretch already in regards to potential burnout. I was hoping I could share some of the hundreds of high quality poems I've already written on uptrend with the mind to getting new eyes on my work and maybe a little crypto as a bonus.

I guess it will be ok to share them generally in the poetry categories, but just not through your imitative right?

Yeah of course brother! I encourage you to bring ALL of your old writings to the Uptrennd community and work together to really night this new community up with lots of quality writing!

You can get a nice bonus to get you started too if you want to by following the instructions in this post... I know you might not be ready to jump ship quite yet.. and are a lot more in the know than I am about the future of steemit.. but it might be worth checking!

Sending love my friend <3

https://www.uptrennd.com/post-detail/huge-welcome-bonus-for-the-steemit-community~MjIwMDcy

Cheers

Yeah, all the successful online freelancers, whether writing, video or some other content based path use multiple mediums to get their work seen. I don't see why I shouldn't branch out more. My biggest worry in the past was the idea of doubling or tripling the amount of networking (commenting etc) that will happen managing multiple platforms.

I'll message you on facebook just to get your perspective on uptrend m8 if yo don't mind.

Also, not sure posting here trying to bring steemians over to uptrend gonna go down to well at the moment as we're all rallying together to oust this threat to out network. But maybe in a few weeks when I can write something that explains well the benefit of posting on steem, uptrend and others like library together to maximize network impact for their content.

I'll message you in the next few days @hartfloe :)

In the mean time I'd love for you to participate in the poetry prompt which I'll be publishing from the @theinkwell account to the community in the next 8 hours :)

If you can't no worries.I'm easy going like sunday morning m8 ;-)