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RE: Day 521: 5 Minute Freewrite: Monday - Prompt: wild
Never apologize for ending a sentence with a preposition - and my degree is in English teaching, but I agree with one of the world's great orators: When criticized for occasionally ending a sentence on a preposition, Winston Churchill replied,
"This is the type of errant pedantry up with which I will not put."
hahahahahaha!!! I had to read it a couple times! He was good, very very good!
I just went to your blog to check in on Kris et al, and I see you resteemed my "wild". Thank you!
I'd resteem all your stuff, and a lot of other posts, but I had to stop doing so much resteeming -- now that one can hide resteems, it would solve the problem of my own posts being buried deep, but why resteem if you hide the resteems????? So much I'll never understand. (Like what it was I did to violate Amazon's guidelines, and why they flushed me without warning and without explanation.) Thanks for checking on my story. I'm not sure I ought to post any more of it, given the disclaimers people have about publishing an already published story, and how a serialized first draft, even just the first one-third of a novel, is enough to make it "published" - I disagree! - but I don't make the rules. I just break 'em and suffer the consequences.
Hey I just came across this. I assume that when I hide resteems, they are hidden only to me for that one time. What is this about publishing? If you post on Steem it's been "published"? So much I do not know! I'm with you on breaking rules.
I wish I knew who to believe. Some say if you publish your fiction on Steemit, even partials, even first drafts vs final drafts, it is PUBLISHED and nobody else will touch it, and Amazon has a price-match policy that guarantees everyone will download your book for free because you could read it for free, one chapter at a time, 50 chapters in all, never mind how cumbersome that is, somewhere online. Gaaaahhh!!!!!!!
As for resteeming, we are advised not to do too much of it, or own content gets lost among all the resteems.
I resteem contests I want to enter so I can more easily find them again. Sometimes I resteem stuff I love, mostly for the same reason. I nearly always have both steemit and steempeak open because they do different things. I'm looking into esteem as well, still trying to find something that makes navigating the blockchain less cumbersome. I guess there are still many glitches to work out here on steem.
I also resteem things to make it easier to find them again, like contests, but I haven't managed partiko or steempeak, and everything is cumbersome and glitchy to me, on Steemit or Facebook or anywhere! My age (more than 55) is no excuse. You go!!!!
That, as usual for most policies and laws, is only going to harm the little guys - the likes of us. Gaaaah! is right.
I will forever be a minnow, not a whale, at the rate I go. Just not into the promos and number and competition. Even at the grocery store, I let people ahead of me in line if they have little kids, or an armload of stuff and no cart. Not a born fighter. Happy to be on the sidelines while others do the tackling and jockeying for position!