The Steemit Flea Market 5 Min Freewrite
Not felt much like typing this week. That's alright it gives me a chance to catch up on reading. Think how sad Steemit would be if everyone were typing and no one were reading.
Steemit is like a fleamarket for readers. I come in never knowing what I will find each day. The joy is in the discovery.
Recently a friend asked me what he should post next. My first reaction was me? you sure you meant to ask me that question? The girl who just squeezes out the obligatory one or two a week then trots merrily along to read and comment some more. That is not what I said though. What I did say was something along the lines of post whatever you know I will probably read it. So he says to me he wants to know what I want to read. Bless his heart the poor guy is persistent if nothing else.
A smarter person would have tossed out a topic just to move on to other things. A really intelligent person would have thrown out a hilarious challenge. Silly me had to offer up my honest first thought. I told him it really doesn't matter what anyone ever posts about on Steemit. If nothing else that apparently got him thinking because at least once a week he asks me to explain that statement.
Sadly I have no credentials whatsoever to back up any theoretical game plan. I am sure most here have there own theory about how things work. I follow a couple of people who run experiments to test these things out. Those are some of my favorite reads. Also some of my favorite and most enlightening discussions are around similar topics.
From my short time here just observing it seems anything can be made into a successful blog. It all depends on how you choose to spend time on the platform. There seem to be as many ways to steem as there are personality types.
That just adds to the fleamarket feel of the place.
Even an obscure area of interest can generate attention if you want to "market" the post. It is probably easier for most people to choose topics that already have a following. That at least can generate some new eyes coming in from the tags.
I personally look at most posts as conversation starters. The comment sections are way more fun than writing monologue.
Steemit is for me an eclectic mix of jumbled content. I read whatever catches my eye or matches the mood of the day.
I post the same way. So my answer would be whatever it is put in your Steemit booth. Chances are someone will love it just because it is a unique find.
This post is for The 5 min freewrite details can be found here:
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-301-5-minute-freewrite-thursday-prompt-flea-market
Oh yes indeed Steemit is like a flea market but selling from the mind. We can blog anything we want or should I say we can sell anything we want here. Sometimes people buy things from you not because they really need the stuff, perhaps they buy because they like you.
What a nice and interesting freewrite you have written. You might want to continue the next one?
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-302-5-minute-freewrite-friday-prompt-door-knob
Agreed and sometimes it is because people like to see how many different varieties of posts can come from one word/topic. I am sure I will do more these are really fun to do. Thanks for stopping in to read.
Yay! I will see you more often then :) we are mining the steem with our mind. People say the more we write the more our brain expands.:p
I do hope that is true.
Sometimes the words just flow for me. Hopefully those days will start to come more often with time.
lol ye this is 90 % of my blogs here. just starting and then it make some sens in the end. a like the fleamarket idea..:)
I like your blogs. Wish I could just loosen up and write more often like you do.
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Always love your comments. 💌 Spam and lunch in the same sentence ... not so much.
Yes, yes ,yes...
You could also call it an agora. The stalls are all ready and laid out, ready to sell you their story:)
Well yeah maybe but agora was not the word of the day. Flea market was hard enough to work into a post. Should have just went with shopping for fleas and slapped a comedy tag on the whole mess.
Now there's an idea! I like it!
so very true and great writeup i love he fles market reference and great freewrite. got a lot out in cinco minutos 😛
Thanks! I really appreciate you stopping by. The free writes are very helpful to me. Really glad I found them. I tend to obsess way too much over a post.
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Yeah I kind of agree with the “it doesn’t matter what you write “ comment but we all live in hope that someone has a read and likes what we write .
I think no matter what it is someone will like it. The trick is making sure it is seen by that someone.
Lol! That's certainly one way to describe it. Now I'm off to wonder what next to peddle in Steemit's flea market.
Well whatever it is I am sure someone will love it.
Agreed, this place is a scattering of ideas. I like the flea market image.
I love the diversity. Wish I had more time to browse. There are little gems lurking all over the place here.
finally admits to being scatter-brained. love it. typical Floridian.
Man, you get around. Lol.
maybe you're finally starting to get around. I've known headchange from when I first started. so there!
I new headchange before she was born, So there!!!!!!
Top that
That has to be the funniest comment of the day. Let someone top that!
haha! that is classic, can't top that!
I just could not let it go by. HAHA
lol to bad you don't get a badge for that on @steemitboard. You do look at your information there once in awhile. It will also tell you your vest and other good info. need any help or question let me know
I pop over there sometimes when a badge alert comes in. They do have some interesting stats. One day I will start looking at deliberatly earning some badges can't hurt.
that's hilarious Wolf lol!
see last comment. lol
I must be getting tired
well well well... finally there is sort of an answer there somewhere. well I agree that it doesn't matter what the subject is, it just matters how loyal your audience is if you don't care about making a quality post...or it depends on the skill of the writer if you care about the quality of the post because some people on here can write about anything and make it sound good or sound hilarious. just look at meesterboom. case closed.
I definitely agree that anything can be a quality post. The freewrite project is a perfect example. I see a few people who make amazing content out of a one word prompt.
Then again some people can write about a new chair delivery.. just saying.
yeah I wish I could write about something so mundane and turn it into a decent post. oh well, we can't all be headchanges!
Ha Ha We all know I am pretty horrible at posting. Maybe I should play more with video or something. I have OBS got any good ideas for green screen?
like I'm supposed to know what OBS is..and you aren't horrible at posting you're just horrible at geting them out! lol. play with video??are you serious I thought you were an introvert like me?
who are you really?
I am a very creative introvert. With OBS I could do video with out including myself at all. I put a couple on You Tube already. But yeah you are right. I was just looking through my old posts to see what did well in the past.
That comedy one didn't do badly at all. The one about Steemit redfish went over well because I tagged people that seems a bit dishonest to do more than once.
So what should I post next? 😋 Maybe a contest post have not done that yet.
yeah do a contest. we hardly ever see those on steemit. that should get some attention. lol.
you like those don't you? and people seem to love contests on here, that's all I see so that should work well.
Oh yeah mine for sure wouldn't be anything unique and original. If that's all you are seeing you are once again missing the forest while seeing the trees.
I will write you a quick DM btw I nominated you for that whitelist.