I understand how you felt @queenmountain, because like you, I also longed to be voted with whales. Although rewards but most of them came from featured post. I also though of giving up because writing content for me is difficult. I have a work during day time that is giving me a monthly salary of $400, which not enough for a family of 3 kids, so I spent my night time writing articles. I'm not a writer like and writing a single article for me take some times but I have to finish at least one article every night so I can have something to post, hoping that somehow whales can see me.

My advice is very common, just keep going. Just keep on posting good quality content, like what you said you are a blogger and as you do, writing could be easy for you compared to me.

Let me tell you a story, when I'm at home I just use my android phone on accessing steemit including writing articles. Imagine how hard is it to make article using just a phone. When the day comes, I will bring the article to my workplace and format it for posting to steemit. Sometimes I post it at my workplace whenever I have a chance and sometimes I bring it back home and post it.

Even so, I didn't stop because I have people who depends on me, who depends on the rewards that I will be gaining from my posts.