1000+ Posts Celebration—Do I hate writing?

This is not another 200 followers celebration everyone does that. I’ve spent a lot of time leaving comments on Steemit. Along the way with how people use Twitter, Facebook, and instant message we have forgotten how to communicate. We think a 1-3 word reply sometimes just in Emoji is “conversation.” In fact, this kind of behavior is starting to drive a few Steemains crazy. While it might be acceptable to leave a very short reply acknowledging that you have read something, or you agree that’s just not what people like me see Steemit for.

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1000+ Posts in the 48 days I been here might not sound like much at first glance. Why some people do that in a week! So, why is this so important to me? I try and avoid the 1-3 word comments on other people’s blogs. I spend a fair amount of time writing and rewriting my comments. People tell me “make that a blog,” or something like “thank you for the level of engagement.” Yes, having a discussion is what a few of us like having on Steemit, and that’s why we love this platform so much.

I took a look at my last 100 comments as I was reflecting back and put them into categories according to word count and graphed them in Excel. I know word count is not the most meaningful thing on its own, but in the bigger picture, it can be.

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Am I the kind of person to leave a very short 0-5 word reply? Most of the time the answer is a resounding no. I have in the past, but I generally try and avoid doing so unless the blog I am engaging in is set up that way. Half of the last 100 comments still fall under 6 to 40 words. I’m not some wordsmith leaving 500+ giant comments everywhere. I, however, have been known to leave some long comments. I believe my longest is 1,883 words. As you can image it got skipped right over! I got 1 sympathy vote from a friend, and some random stranger also upvoted it. It was also one of my first comments. I think it scared people. I tried to avoid doing that these days. That and it’s just time-consuming even more so for someone like me that struggles with writing. A few of my last 100 comments took me 15 minutes to a few hours to find the wording for and get out.

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What most people do not know about me is I’ve HATE WRITING most of my life, and I still do to a point. Sorry, but it’s true. From elementary school into high school I got more D’s and F’s, then, I did get C’s. Writing classes were miserable for me. I would spend weeks writing something and then get an F. Up at the top it would say something like “try harder next time.” Harder? There are only 24 hours in a day. We only had 2 weeks to write this! I even had one teacher once declare to the whole class that one student wrote such a bad paper she had to spend half a day correcting it-- looking at me the whole time. I found it funny because there were 3 or 4 different shades of red ink and not a single word and I mean not a single word was left without red ink on it. I wish I had saved that paper. I HATE YOU is how I felt for reaming time I spent in that class.

I went to a community college for a 2-year degree a few years back it was freeing. It was more about the ideas and not so much about the parts I hated in writing for the most part. I only had one teacher give me D’s and F’s on everything I wrote. This person could not be pleased. I could of drop out of the class and take an I instead of an F. If I would have done so I would have graduated with high honors; instead of just honors in regards to my GPA. So why didn't I? Well, I could not understand this person at all. So I research things that would be said, and guess what? This person had a near perfect recall, but very few things this “very intelligent” person had to say were his own words. I think he might have been a plagiarist. Most of my papers that I got back in that class his replies where copy/paste verbatim of something he felt “was needed.” These were not his insight on things I could cover better or I got wrong. No wonder I failed his class. I would do things like apply accounting or business ethics to a topic like Genghis Khan. I must have scared the daylight out of that professor. His books that he loved so much never coved these ideas. Despite that fact he never once could tell me I was off topic as I never was-- I earned an F in that class.

I’m a slow writer. I have to revise, revise, and revise some more just for simple comments most of the time. At least here on Steemit things tend to be more about ideas and not so much about the red pen. I think that’s why I love it here so much it’s more like college in the sense of ideas flow. That’s why I’m celebrating 1000+ comments instead of 200+ followers. I struggle every time I get on Steemit.com to write, and that’s a good thing.

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