在Steemit成功的秘诀?写一大堆作品 // The Secret To Steemit Success? Build A Body Of Work (featuring @alexc as author)

这个帖子的原作者是 @alexc. 你可以在这里找到原文 :
https://steemit.com/writing/@alexc/the-secret-to-steemit-success-build-a-body-of-work

This post was originally written by @alexc. You can find the original story here:
https://steemit.com/writing/@alexc/the-secret-to-steemit-success-build-a-body-of-work

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在Steemit成功的秘诀?写一大堆作品

The Secret To Steemit Success? Build A Body Of Work

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我的朋友是一个中央伦敦美术馆的策展人,今天我们一起开车从市中心到农村去拜访几位艺术家。

My friend was a curator for a central London art gallery. We were driving out from the centre into the countryside to visit a couple of artists for the day.

我问,“你选择艺术家做展览的标准是什么?” “我并不只去看艺术家的某一件作品,而是看他们的大量作品来了解 他们的想法,以及确定我们可以合作展览的方向。”

"So what makes you choose one artist over another?" I asked.
"Well, what I look for isn't an individual piece. It's a substantial body of work so I get an idea of how they think and what we can expect if we choose to exhibit them."

今天真是超级赞的一天。我们去了一个叫惠特斯特布尔的沿海小镇,见到了一位特立独行的艺术家。她因为把当地恋童癖的名字写在石头上而著名,成功的引起了媒体的注意。我的朋友不喜欢她的作品,但我还是挺喜欢她这种不羁的精神的。

It was a fascinating day. We visited a coastal town Whitstable, to meet a rather maverick artist. She was famous for giving out sticks of rock with the name of a local paedophile on them which caused a bit stir... but also won her lots of attention in the local newspapers. My friend disliked her work, but I loved the irreverence of her spirit. It was putting two fingers up at the world.

然后我们去了绿色峡谷去见一位老太太和她的丈夫。老太太用水彩画传统画。她之前就在我朋友的美术馆做过展览,你一见到她的作品就能知道她的实力了,她的作品有一股力量和一种复古的美。

Then we ventured to a green valley to meet an older lady with her husband in her cottage. She painted with watercolours I seem to remember very traditional. She'd previously been featured in my friend's gallery. You could see why she'd been chosen. There was a certain energy and old beauty about her art.

在Steemit你就是一位艺术家

As a contributer here on Steemit, you are an artist.

你是一位作家,是一位记者,你可以随心所欲地创作,并且通过自己的作品赚钱。

You are a writer. You are a journalist. You can create whatever you want and will probably get paid for it.

不过就像专业的艺术家们一样,回报常常是不对称和不公平的。

The thing is, like these professional artists the rewards are often uneven and disproportionate.

可能有的时候你付出了几个小时甚至几天都一无所获。 也可能你付出30分钟,当时就可以得到报酬了。

You'll sometimes spend hours and days on something and receive nothing. You'll sometimes spend 30 minutes on something and get paid insanely.

事实上,艺术和写作,以及人生中的很多事情都是为你将来的作品服务的。你可以在其中找到你前作的影子,所有努力都将成为你之后作品的强大支撑点。

The fact about art and writing and everything generally in life is it all feeds into your future work. You can link back to your previous work. It can be scaffolding for points you want to make in future articles, but don't have time to explain.

为了你自己想做的事情,你需要不断积累经验,正所谓种瓜得瓜,种豆得豆。

To do what you do now, you need your previous experience. You may have been paid well for it.

以我个人为例,在steemit写作之前,我在自己的博客里写了大约120 篇文章。在那之前,我为当地的一家杂志社写文章,还设立了我自己 的校报。做这些都没什么稿费,但是这帮我积累了宝贵的经验,我做 这些事情都是因为我确实乐在其中,而且对我很有意义。

Personally, I wrote ~120 articles on my own blog before Steemit . Before that I was writing for local magazines in newspapers and even set up my own school newspapers. Here I share what I learned so you can improve your writing I earned very little for it but it gave me experience. I did it because I enjoyed it it meant something to me.

可能你已经尝试了,但目前为止还是一无所获,没关系,大家都需要时间步入正轨。

You may have done it for nothing. Often it takes time before you get into a rhythm and have a nose for what's great.

写作就像长肌肉

Writing is like growing muscles

你不断努力,挥洒汗水,再休息,成功不是一蹴而就的,你好像做了很多事情,但是又好像没什么成果。然后有一天别人突然发现你很擅长这件事,然后你开始得到更多的关注和尊重。

You work out, you sweat, you rest. Nothing happens immediately you're pumping out the same kind of thing. Then one day other's notice that "you're getting good at this". Then eventually you start to get noticed more by people you respect.

人们都觉得你在爆发性地写出大作,然后你耸耸肩说“我只在做自己一直坚持想做的。”

Eventually people think you're pumping out masterpieces and you just shrug and say "I'm just doing what I always did".

把Steemit作为你发展大量作品的基地

What's important is that you treat Steemit as a place to develop your body of work.

你在这里写得如何,不仅关乎你后面的一篇文章,还会影响你后期的 5篇,10篇,甚至20篇文章。当然坚持一年或者几年之后,你可能会 收获很多很多,也可能什么都得不到。

How well you do here, isn't about you next 1 article. It's your next 5, 10, 20 articles. It's how things are in year, or a few years. You may get grossly over rewarded for something. You might get nothing for most of it.

实践。说你应该说的,尝试不同的主题,尝试新的形式,尝试添加更多图片。尝试尝试再尝试.

Experiment. Say what you need say. Try different topics. Try longerform. Try adding more gifs. Try try try.

建立合理的预期

The thing is to set yourself reasonable expectations

有的女生只是在这儿自我介绍就能拿1000美金,然而有的好的作者写 了特别棒的文章却啥也得不到。有的时候你的某一篇文章可以得到超 级多的关注,而其他的文章却无人问津。

I wince at how certain women, get $1000s here for just introducing themselves... while great writers with great articles get next to nothing. But part of it's luck a whale vote can get you too much attention on article. While the rest languish in the archives.

不管怎样,这就是现实。

For better or worse, it's just how things are now.

记住Steemit比其他传统的博客或者自由写作网站要赞一万倍

And let's not forget Steemit is sensationally better than traditional blogging or freelance writing

在这里有等待你的读者,有最及时的反馈。你不必花太多时间搞促销, 也不必花费时间去求编辑或营销经理给你工作做。你只需要到Steemit 来发挥你的才华,然后得到应得的奖励。

Here, you have a premade audience. You have almost instant feedback. You don't have to spend much time on promotion at all. You don't have to spend all your time begging an editor or marketing manager to let you write for them. You simply have to provide value to the Steemit hivemind here and be rewarded accordingly.

如果你想在这里获得赞赏,那么就向我们展示你的才华吧......以及写 一大堆作品给我们看看

Now if you want to do well here, write, show us your soul... And build that body of work

因为一旦我们认识到你是一个很棒的作者,我们就会让更多的读者看到你的名字和作品。

Because once we know you're a good writer, people will see your name and shoot you an instant upvote.

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这个帖子的原作者是 @alexc. 你可以在这里找到原文 :
https://steemit.com/writing/@alexc/the-secret-to-steemit-success-build-a-body-of-work

This post was originally written by @alexc. You can find the original story here:
https://steemit.com/writing/@alexc/the-secret-to-steemit-success-build-a-body-of-work