It's always a pleasure when you stop in! Did you read the note I left you on your comment to this post? https://steempeak.com/freewrite/@owasco/climber-a-freewrite
Here, I will reproduce it for you so you don't have to go hunt around for the comment:
I totally agree! I write great original stuff off the cuff with the help only of a couple of prompts. Then I edit it. Then I proofread it and proofread it again. Then I choose, crop, tinker with and upload a photo that I took myself. Then I make sure to give credit wherever credit is due. I hit publish and start the mad scramble to get it noticed - I'm my own marketer too. I do all this work and does anyone notice? The answer to that is YES! This thing has been resteemed four times. It has gotten ten human readers! But does it make any steem? nope. All this talk about quality being rewarded and I haven't even made a quarter on this. OK OK, I know I still got to surprise the hell out of myself by writing a really good story, one that is tight enough to get the attention of a bot like yourself that can see it is well constructed, has careful and adept grammar. The story also has a true surprise ending (read the comments to see what people were thinking as opposed to my brilliant twist ending) an ending that rivals even a @felt.buzz ending. People who read it genuinely liked it because these are folks out there doing exactly the same kind of work I am doing and racking up quarter after quarter, being careful to stake it all back into the steem system that is making others rich. OK not rich maybe, but rich in steem and power on steem. There are days I feel like I am doing all this mostly to benefit an elite techno-savvy math-minded gambling class. My work, after all this, goes up in smoke in a couple of days but the money makers get to keep their money. It gets a bit demoralizing to have to work this hard (writer, editor, proofreader, photographer, lay out, publisher, marketer) for next to nothing, except of course for visits from my dear readers who keep me sane. I'd like to express my endless gratitude to everyone who actually reads my stuff.

Hey, I know I am talking to a bot, but thanks for giving me the opportunity to get all this off my chest.