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RE: Day 10 - Team Beck comes to grips with Amsterdam
Great job and thank you for sharing with us on Steemit.com!
I'm actually glad to come across another Steemian posting such epic long posts, glad to see you are having success in the financial reward for it all as well. Upvoted and followed!
Namaste :)
Hi @eric-boucher, many thanks for your kind words about the epic approach. I've given up on making these short posts against all advice to the contrary. Tant pis to the TL;DR crowd. I want to remember the whole story, and the only way to do that is to fill in the details which made the holiday special. I start writing a short version of each one of these days, then the memories flood back and the story starts to write itself.
I'm really glad (and not a little relieved) that there are Steemians out there who actually like the stuff I produce and say they're looking forward to the next exciting installment of "Team Beck does Europe".
Many thanks for your support - deeply appreciated! 😊😊
I'm definitely with you on this one and strongly believe that it is such quality postings that do give our platform even more raison d'être while giving to the world more and more reasons to buy into the whole Steemit Train, thus giving us all more and more financial value and returns. Not that there would be anything wrong or a lack of quality in shorter posts, but for such stories, I deeply feel like the whole story itself needs to be out there as one. somehow, I feel like it is detrimental to the story if it isn't presented as a whole picture/painting...
Tant pis is also how I feel about it as I don't write only to make money, I write for the intrinsic values found within the texts as well as for the readership which includes myself.
All for one and one for all! Namaste :)
Indeed, @eric-boucher, for those of us here for the long term, quality is really important to attracting more quality. I just discovered we have at least one scientist who's working at the LHC now on the platform, involved in a discussion on confirmation bias. That's the kind of conversation I enjoy and Steemit gives a unique opportunity for views to be aired without the trolls hijacking the discussion. Your point about intrinsic values in the text and who the readership is resonates with me. If I don't enjoy what I've written, why should anyone else? And yes, this is about more than making money. There's an aspect of discovering cryptocurrency, certainly, but more than that it's about exploring how we can truly value those creative products which previously were subject only to market forces (pop music, for example - a few Scandivanians write almost all the primarily marketed pop music in the world...does that uniformity or throttling of source make for a healthy music ecosystem? Methinks not). It excites me that accomplished writers such as Margaret Atwood are able to attract mass attention with dystopian stories like the Handmaid's Tale through crossover productions into film and television. Will Steemit provide a different launch pad for previously undiscoverable talent, undiscoverable because of the noise and lack of support from a few promotional machines? I've found a couple of good, not great, fiction writers here, but will continue to search as I suspect the great ones are just building up a head of steam, as it were.
So yes - all for one and one for all! And namaste 😊😊
I totally hear you and am on the same bandwagon on all points! Great to meet you more in depth and thank you so very much for sharing your thoughts so openly. I suspect, we share a lot more depth than what we have shared so far and this give me even more hope on what Steemtit can produce and offer to the world.
Namaste :)
There's a lot I could say in response to your answer, @eric-boucher, but at this point I'll stick with I really appreciate what you've said and it's a delight to meet a kindred spirit on the platform. Namaste! 😊😊