The Purpose of My Blog on Steemit

Photo Credit: Me!

Hi, I'm Kips and this is my blog. There are many like it but this one is mine. My blog is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my blog is useless. Without my blog, I am useless...

(Taken and modified without permission from the movie, "Full Metal Jacket".)

So, there are several people who are willing to delegate some Steem Power to us minnows (I actually think I'm just plankton, at this point. Maybe krill...) and have requested that those interested in these delegations write an article or a blog post about our blog, what we're doing with it, why we're doing what we're doing, what we would do with the delegation we'd be given.

Well, okay, first, who am I?

I am the co-author of two books, "A Bouquet for Adam" with A. J. Marcus and "New Hoofprints in the Sand" with A. M. Burns.

I am an author, an editor, a proofreader, an amateur photographer, an Independent (in the political realm), a reader both of books and comics, a video gamer, a book/movie/video game reviewer, a mother of a child who has autism.

Sheesh, that's a lot of material to write about.

But my goal with Steemit is to help provide great content to the platform. Not just good content, but great content. After all, that's why we're all here, right? Because we want to read and write great content while supporting the authors of said content. Well, that's why I'm here.

With this delegation comes the arrival of probably the most important thing you can have on Steemit: Resource Credits. Without RCs, you can't blog. Without RCs, you can't upvote any material. Without RCs, you can't comment on anyone else's work to network with them and then reach out to other people. In other words, without RCs, you can't be social on this social network.

Without RCs, you will fail using Steemit. You simply can't do it.

The thing is I like Steemit and the idea of it. I like to be able to reward great content when I come across it. I want to help get the word out about other minnows (plankton here) so they can find their audience.

Steemit is a win only when we all have the resources to be able to create great content and then reward other great content that we find.

My personal goal with the network is not only to find and create good content but to help myself with my own work. I want a place to write once, twice, maybe even several times a day, where I can find myself not only accountable to myself, but find myself accountable to an audience.

Could I do this elsewhere? You bet I could. But I chose Steemit because of the fact that I can reward other creators of interesting material. So, not only would I be helping myself, but I'd be helping the Steemit community as well.

HF20 has left me (and others) in dire straits when it comes to doing any of this. And no one's going to change it.

I have 2 posts a day. I've already commented on a post, and I upvoted a post, and I will have to wait until I have more resource credits to be able to post this.

Thank you for your time and consideration as well as the opportunity that you're providing, if not me, then others to be able to do the same.