Hi Rosa.
Well it's nice to read your thoughts about steem and the lack of motivation. It's not only you, I've felt it the last 3 months also... mainly because I'm completely the opposite in what excites me to be honest.
The whole 'steem knowledgeable' comment conversations, and circle jerks that revolve around them, bore me to distraction. I came here to write creative works and the fact is, as you pointed out, that a lot of the talented writers have left steem.
The ones who are less repetitive and always struggling to be seen as they don't get the autovotes as they alternate 'quality' content with shitposting/fun a bit more, have already left.
Ha ha, I'm still here 😉... but in all seriousness it's not far off the mark.
I personally came very close to leaving for good last week, and it was all to do with what I see as the closed loop going on here. Don't get me wrong, that loop does encompass more than just small groups of vote traders. The curation guilds for example do their best to make sure that quality, and variety, is rewarded. But I've noticed that the vast majority of the bidbots turned curation tend to reward steem-centric content or the same authors who're gonna return high curtation rewards.
What it comes down to for me is that I'm not prepared to write on here for less than minimum wage, as if I put my focus and energy on traditional freelance writing I can make a lot more.
I also miss the early days on steem when their were massive amounts of pretty interesting and talented poets and short story writers.
Having said all that, I'll probably keep dropping the odd post.
It's good to hear that the felting is going well. And a clean kitchen is always good 😂
Lots of changes for me in the new year as well. I've started the ketogenic diet to try and address my health problems, and have found some new clients so money isn't as dire as it was last year.
Ha ha, also been doing OK trading BTC... I've learned the dark arts of technical analysis!
Hehe - thanks for your reply and life update @raj808! :D Glad you're still here and dropping the odd post. Maybe it's not a bad thing to not feel the pressure to write daily, and maybe an 'odd post' here and there is even more healthy in the long run :-)
Ketogenic diet! I love it! It helped me quite a bit when I tried it, the first 2-3 weeks are a bit hard and your body goes into fat burning mode instead of sugar burning mode, which makes you feel quite slow, but after that... It only brought me good things :-)
Good luck, and stay cautious with that precious BTC!