Welcome to Steemit @lynsilver. I am glad that you have made your way down here and if you follow directions and instructions, if you also take your time to read other people's publications, you will learn fast.

Take note of the following:

Learn to make use of hashtags so that your publications will be visible. As a newcomer, you must learn to include #newcomer

Then your publications must be steemexclusive and this means that you won't publish the same article you published here elsewhere in a similar platforms and you must use #steemexclusive as one of your tags

You must also include your country tags to be able to identify with users from your country.

Learn to be detailed in your writing.

I will keep sharing other tips with you as you progress. Welcome once again.