Even though I feel addressed, I don't know if I was meant.

I don't think the rusty bones are really a reason you're leaving. After all, you have more than proven that the formatting challenges and design elements are no problem for you. And certainly not your wealth of content and writing pleasure. You once said, I think, that in the free market such an effort should basically be rewarded by a professional publisher and that's the way I see it. How to earn money with your way of writing, here fails, because there are no professional publishers here who act on the level of the market and make appropriate contracts with their authors.

As far as I know, there are only a few places on this platform where you are guaranteed to get financial compensation. The one I know is STEM. The science corner.

Since science is not your category (even if you create an unusual and creative form of knowledge), you could not or did not want to write under this category or did not know it existed?

I had established myself for my part there because of two things:

1. I wanted to find out/prove that I can write scientifically
2. I wanted to attract readers who are interested in my topics.

The first one was absolutely successful, the second one was rather limited - and for me with little satisfying result - because there don't seem to be any other systemics here who were interested in the same exchange or simply didn't find me and I didn't find them. So it wasn't the money with me, because if I had continued to write articles of this caliber, the income would have flowed. Although there is still a factor of uncertainty here that is unknown in the free economy and there are either publishers with whom you have a contract or a blog for which you don't get any money at all (except through advertising revenues).

Here you are - apart from that - dependent on random patronage and don't even know how often or for how long someone supports you. Which is common knowledge and, it seems, doesn't change much. In addition, we do not know each other by name and I think this makes things extremely difficult. There is a little bit of a lot of noncommittalism in it.

As for my excursions into the realm of fiction, I know that I probably don't write well enough for a real publisher. But for steemit I think that's enough. But of course I pay attention to the value judgement of people who can write excellently: Somebody like you.

You should know all this or find out when you come here. Whereby it is also the case that networking and paying attention and commenting takes a lot of space here and bites this non-committal with this kind of investment. If relationships had been established in the physical world in the same form, one would probably have either already given up or found a publisher/financier/client. It is therefore quite uneconomical and I assume that the confirmation from time to time is the candy that it is all about. And the loneliness... and the quest to go beyond the ordinary.

Fare well, sister.