Challenges with Steemit, Can You Relate?

Hi guys! How's it goin? I'm faced with some real blogger challenge right now.

I have been writing since high school and I thought blogging would be a piece of cake. However, this past few days I spent like the whole day just trying to write a few paragraphs then leaving it.

I would then start to write about another topic and not finish it again. Writers block? Maybe. I tried to sort things out and evaluate which actually causes the problems and here are some of my realizations.

Ps. I'm not even gonna include understanding cryptocurrency here yet because honestly, I'm still trynna figure that baby out!

The Difference

Steemit is freedom!

I get to choose whatever I wanna write. There are no limitations, no space and character issues, and most especially, no killed stories! I can write whatever I want and know that it will be published at the end of the day! Unlike in the newsrooms and other publications where the editors can just throw my piece to the garbage bin of they want to!

There are times before when I had to pour in long hours on an article only to realize the next day that the editor killed my story to give way to advertisements. Sigh.

What's cooler is that I get paid everytime people likes my writing!

The challenge with this is that sometimes, I am free to write about almost everything that I am no longer sure what yo write about. In the news rooms it was easy. The editors often gives the assignments.

Next, Cool, You got a really nice article there but WHERE ARE THE PHOTOS?

Oh God, I have pretty good articles waiting to be published already but they don't look good without the photos! I wish I had a good camera. When I was writing for some publications, I often go with a photographer. People are more visual nowadays. Would they even read my blog? Or will they just scan and look at the photos then comment: "Nice post! Please follow me"

Lol!

And hey, should blogs even need to look professional? Or am I overthinking the wrong things?

Now this is a test. People often only scan blog posts without reading them. If you happen to read this, please comment something relevant in the comment sections.

But do I regret writing in steemit? Absolutely not! Not even a bit!

I pondered on this for a long time and realized how lucky I am to stumble into such beautiful platform to hone more my skills and get paid at the same time. It's like a free space that really allows me to go on trial and error and see which things will really work for me.

This time, Steemit is allowing me to explore more and create my own path. What I so love about the community is that it is still so new and there is still a lot of things to discover and improve here.

How about you? What are the things you find most challenging in steemit?