"You are a good writer and your skill is needed badly on steemit. why waste it? and why waste your time when you could earn big from it. You should join steemit you know?"
After hearing such motivating words, you become so excited to get started on steemit and light up the place with your piece of writing but after your first, time invested post on steemit, you get humbled and knocked back by the failure of your work to get audience and votes.
As if that is not enough, you decide to go through and seek answers to your post failure and you come across a line from a user and its gotten a monstrous traction already.
I give up! this place is not what it promised... these are the painful thoughts As a newbie, i stay worried and angry and still wallowing in confusion for many days staying away from the community.
Finally, you get back and you still notice same poor turn out on your post as you even get scammed by some bots, until you meet some nice people like @davemccoy. Initially everything they say is like a bluff but with persistence you begin to come along and realise that what they say are doable and workable.
What i have come to realise as a newbie is that a post is only as good or bad as the kind of people you follow, the kind of people you seek advise from, your activities here and the decision you have made before and after you joined whether to succeed here or give up.
You need people and activities to make that desired impression here. This is why I have started building on that and found @danielsaori through @amariespeaks and @Davemccoy. With these kind of people, you can make your post go viral and you can make a great post.
Now I am glad i will make it to the top and you too can with these people.