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RE: Prototype 0.0.005b - FULL STORY
Spot on!!
You have adjusted the style to the chanel and you are a good writer, you know create the environment and transmit the feeling of characters...
Right now 107 upvotes and increasing, and really happy good texts are valued as yours.
So the key seems or short texts (because time of reading is aprox. 2-3 min) for fast feed and prose episodies of stories.
Please continue and... yes... you use and external editor :-)
I know! This is crazy! Thank you, as always, for your continued support and encouragement. You're right it seems like a longer text get more notice and praise in the form of votes. Perhaps am going to be continuing the thread and maybe will revisit with Devon and the thing in return trip.
And yes, I will absolutely be using an external editor from now on.
Perhaps?? eyyy you have to do it!! althought behing some many words are a lot of work, i'd be exhausted writing so long text.
Just (of course you do whatever you want) post sometimes another short texts :-) , i'm still a little intrigued about the girl who was in that boat and realizing that... all has ended.
Congratulations and cheerrrsss for writing more and... earning more... :-)
Ahh yes. That is a good story. I'll have to continue that one too. the poems, and blog posts are daily requirements for my writing, so they'll continue. I had no idea a story like this would be so well received. i'll absolutely continue them.
Thank you so much for your encouragement and continued support :)!
Hi @jocelynlily I feel I should explain "what happened" here. Your post was submitted to and approved by / upvoted by @curie. The big payout votes that came through after @curie are part of the @curie "curation trail" - they automatically followed the @curie vote.
A few things to note - Curie is not designed to be a sustainable earnings solution for an author - rather, Curie is designed to give a big bump up to undiscovered authors who are creating quality posts, giving them a larger stake in the platform and (hopefully) incentivizing them to remain on Steem. The primary goal of Curie is to upvote exceptional posts by authors who are persistent with little success. You obviously fit this bill with a lot of quality posting and very little reward to show for it (previously!).
Curie does not (typically) upvote the same author multiple times, or at least not in close succession, and in any case, not for the same kind of posting that was previously upvoted by Curie. I mention this because I see many authors trying to catch that Curie lightning in a bottle by continuing to post the exact same kind of post that received a Curie upvote the first time. I just want you to understand what happened, and that continuing to post this same kind of story will likely not have the same success. I love this story and am not saying NOT to keep posting more like this, just wanting to give you the full scoop.
RE post length, I personally felt the post was on the long side to begin with when it was "unfinished", and part 2 could well have been its own post instead of edited on as an addition here. Of course you can write posts of any length, we are just talking about my personal opinion here now (not to be read as any sort of official Curie position about post length) - but I feel personally that Steem is not that well suited to longer form posting.
One last thing - check out http://hackmd.io/
It is an online markdown editor so you can type your posts up and see them in same formatting as here - if you do not know what markdown is, the native post editor on Steemit.com uses markdown language for formatting and you can get the basics from any number of tutorials if you Google Steemit markdown tutorial.
Much love - Carl
You can read more about @curie here: https://steemit.com/curation/@curie/curie-whitepaper
Also the weekly @curie author showcase: https://steemit.com/curation/@curie/curie-author-showcase-february-1st-2018
And weekly @curie update: https://steemit.com/curation/@curie/curie-weekly-update-28th-january-2018-to-4th-february-2018
Carl, Thank you for the explanation. I appreciate the guidance, the information, and the opinion. I'm reminded of Charles Dickens, and how he wrote his books: episodic and relatively short coming out each week in the paper. Perhaps steemit should be approached similarly and produce serial style. I'm not the biggest fan of reading things like that, but perhaps it lends itself better for this platform.
Thanks for the markdown editor link. I'll be sure to use it in the future. I appreciate your attention to detail and gleaning from my posts needs and helpful guidance.
I'll celebrate this explosive anomaly and hope that through hard work and continuing the "writing slog" I'll some day see this as a regular occurance through excellence and effort.
Is the @curie theory that by giving a large "taste" of potential it will encourage creators to continue their hard work? LIke the feeling you get when you publish your first book on Amazon and you're inspired to keep writing? Thank you!
RE your last question, yes, that, but also just to give you a literal stake in the platform. You could of course choose to cash out your earnings from this post pay out and take them off platform, but you could also convert the post earnings to Steem and "power up" to give you more steem power (stake) with which to use the platform. As the Steem network experiences more use, the lowest stake accounts are frozen out of using the network because of bandwidth shortages. This is already happening now in periods of peak use - users with less than 40 SP are often experiencing negative bandwidth as higher stake users are prioritized when use of the network exceeds bandwidth. Curie gives quality authors (should they choose to power up) the stake necessary to continue using the platform.
Cheers - Carl