RE: Forget About The Fucking Money On Steemit For A Second, Dedicated To @Klye Who Shook Up My Brain!
Thank you for this. You put into words what's been creeping up in the back of my mind. Steemit could not have come at a better time for me, creatively. As a professional content writer, I'm thrilled to be able to use my gift to help business owners succeed - but of course, it's not exactly creative writing (well, not in the common sense, even though there's a level of creativity needed to make the mundane or technical interesting).
For YEARS, I've been telling myself that someday I'd free myself to write the stories rattling around in my mind. It never happened until Steemit. I was scared. Scared that they wouldn't be good enough to justify the effort and time needed to write them, mostly. Now, because there's the possibility of finding a readership and even maybe seeing their appreciation of my creations in the form of money, spending hours (ok, sometimes days) creating now feels justifiable to me. Steemit's giving us the opportunity to let multiple flames ignite in our creative minds - and then give them the air they need to burn.
If that's not life-changing for a creative, I don't know what is.
Exactly. That is precisely what I saw in Steemit too. That's why I could not turn away. It felt the solution to the problems I'd had for the last ten years. And I like that we all exposed to radically different ideas. Modern social media shields us from people who are unlike us, and it is like blinders. Steemit exposes us to everything, and it makes for a better mix of global people. Most of my long-term friends here are not Americans. They seem to be from Norway, Canada, UK, Nigeria, Germany. I find it so interesting that Steemit has been able to mostly obliterate country divides. This is a radical shift from what we have on Facebook I think. I believe it is because Steemit is meeting our needs in ways that other social media platforms cannot.