I used to write intellectual philosophical content, original short stories, and decent poetry. This entire Steem platform ought to serve me, seeing as I'm a writer who writes nigh-exclusively on Steem.
But I don't get anything, while some early-bird gets more than just the worm: They get the entire platform, leaving actual writers with nothing.
I'm not some blogger, not a news-writer, not a desperate person just writing trash, I'm a serious writer, but look: I'm impoverished, despite being the true target demographic here. I ought to be living like royalty, seeing as I'm a proper writer of prose and adventure, but instead it's like fine dining at the local trash dump.
I could easily run my own witness server, I'm certainly technologically adept enough to handle it, but why even bother? I'm not the sort of person who panders and appeals to others just to be popular, nor am I greedy enough to try anyways. What should I do here?
Here are your options:
1: Buy Votes
2: Buy a TON of Steem and Power Up
3: Deal With It
4: Quit Steeming
Your posts which are 1month (and 1+) have usually earnings over $3 and quite many with double digits.
Are you assuming you would earn big amounts? There are some flaws which harm the possibility to earn more, but it's really difficult or close to impossible to earn as much as we would want.
A lot of those double-digit ones are votes that I bought, in the hopes that it'd get some attention. But it didn't seem to work. No one is reading.
Well the sad fact is, if you want to buy attention you'd need to buy yourself to trending.
To get attention you would need to interact with people and/or be good enough to impress those who could be interested in your genre.
build community. you can't win here just as a writer of awesome posts. worked for me.
Hang in there, audiences are coming.
The halls are empty, but they wont stay that way forever.
Presuming sufficient change happens.