Hello Steemit!

in #introduceyourself7 years ago (edited)

My very first Steemit! Came across Steemit while searching for innovative alternatives for writers on the web.

I'm
• Jamaican/American
• Married
• A writer and communications specialist
• Explorer

Avid reader. Favorite books include:
• The Book of Night Women
• My name is Red
• What’s so Amazing About Grace
• The Varieties of Religious Experience

Movie buff. My favorites go way back into the 1990's:
• Gandhi
• Schindler’s List
• Braveheart
• Wag the Dog

Eclectic musical tastes. All time favorites include, but not limited to:
• All albums by Andrae Crouch
• All albums by Bob Marley, especially Uprising
• All albums by Beres Hammond
• All albums by Luther Vandross
• The Very Best of Richard Smallwood (Live)
• The Butler Did It – Harold Butler
• Breathless – Kenny G
• Best of Otis Redding
• Best of Percy Sledge

More About Me
Took writing seriously since I was 12. A love affair that ebbed, then flowed, then ebbed, and is now flowing again. Receded partly but never went away. Published a book or two, won awards here and there.

Faith is an important part of my life. Some would judge me left of center/moderate/liberal. Somewhere in between any of those. I’ve evolved. Still evolving.

I read. And read. And read. Something like 50+ books in a year. I’ll be sharing, hopefully on a weekly basis, books that I consider interesting, insightful, relevant, different, or that are simply a good read. Hope to find the right tags for those posts.

Jamaican by birth. Passionate about the island. A reluctant émigré. My heart is strung there. Will share much about this piece of paradiseeron steemit.JPG.

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Congratulations dear friend @jamwriter you feel at home and succeed in media steemit platform. This medium is where we learn how to post professionally and freely from plagiarim. Where steemit is very demanding us to be sportsmanship in sharing all sorts of news, which happens in our daily lives. Congratulate our friends, send us all that benefits us on the steemit platform.
I am @nellysteem

Welcome. I pray things turn around for you. Good luck!

Welcome to the community. As a writer, you'll find Steemit to be a good platform for your content.

Hey , how are you ?
welcome to steemit @jamwriter
following you now. :D
follow me back pls.

Welcome.
check HOT to see the posts that get votes, maybe reads! bots do a lot of voting.
Bob Marley had such a great msg, that is as important today as it ever was.

BTW Your password created 5 keys for you. By default you probably logged in with the "master" key. Not a good idea as it enables access to your $$$. It's better to log in with your Private POSTING key.

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Welcome :)!

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Here a few tips for starters snce you probably won't get any advice from those who comment under here, here's what I gathered thus far.
It's tough to make money at first so if that's your main cause to be on here grind that into your head straight away, that doesn't mean you shouldn't post content, you should, but enganging with others in the comment sections to grow your following is your best bet. Which categories?

Probably the introduce yourself one and the photography section but you can choose things that you have knowledge about too and then go from there just know that there is a lot of crap on here so plowing through that just to connect with others can be tough. Cheers.

Thanks for the tip

Salute! I noticed that you joined recently so I'd like to offer you my welcome. Have an upvote and maybe upvote some of my stuff too!
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