Success Here is Within Everyone's Reach

jsantana (70)in #writing • 9 years ago (edited)

The more we climb the stairs, the closer we are to our goal.

Before I joined Steemit I had no idea what it would be like to be a blogger. I had a lot of ideas in my head and I wanted to expose them so people could take advantage of their lives, but by traumatizing experiences on facebook with people who attack without respecting each other in opposite opinion, I decided to book myself.

9 months ago I met this platform. I already had a very close contact with encrypted coins, having known this economic model in the year of 2011 and since I always follow the crypto coins related news on specialized websites, I saw an article that talked about Steemit and I stay fascinated by the idea of making money blogging, writing and generating content. I found it fantastic and decided to join the platform.

The boat traffic on the Capibaribe River is always intense.

These 9 months here for me have been great and lots of learning. Today I am surprised at how it evolves in my posts and how it is natural for me to write every day here. Today I find no further difficulty in daily posting. The words simply come to my head and I can translate those ideas by arranging them on paper and transcribing them into a post. My photos are also great allies in my creative process. They are inspirations and in them I can absorb the feeling and reflection that I want to share with those who read my post.

But since everything is not always victories and happiness, I still sometimes suffer this: "Crisis in the Creative Process". This crisis is like an amnesia, an absence of ideas, a period of darkness where even you try, you can not create anything. It's desperate, sad, revolting, and I believe that it happens to many newbies who adhere to the platform.

These are the old phone booths. Today with the massive adhesion of smartphones, little is used.

My advice from experience is to seek inspiration from the surrounding things. Get out of the house, go to the street, sit in some square and watch the people, the nature, buildings etc. Go to some library, shopping, bar, restaurant, for sure great stories you can capture in these environments, merging reality with fiction and so manage to build a post that will attract attention.

Another advice I give to beginners is not to feel pressured, to be calm in building a post, to spend a good amount of time editing it. Being truthful and looking to read posts from other authors can be a great help.