This comes as timely for me as I’ve been contemplating giving Steemit a thrash, though find myself discouraged by some of the things I’m finding about how tough decent content creators are finding it to gain a foothold. I’ve spent much of my adult life crafting two large books (one in particular) to within an inch of their life, neither of which have been published. I have no regrets because that’s the sort of books they are and ... well anyway, long story. The point here is that your post brings home to me that if I’m going to put out frequent content I can’t afford to be TOO pernickety about every last word, or as you put it “treat my writing like it’s drops of liquid gold that must be salvaged”. Going off this topic and back to the question of how worthwhile Steemit is as a platform, I’ve looked at your blog and will be checking out your @Ben interview and podcast with Charlie Hoehn. Again, I have to say, pretty discouraging to see the paltry rewards for posts you are doubtless enough of a pro to have turned out quite quickly but which in any case are vastly superior to some of the stuff I’ve seen raking in the shekels, no doubt by shrewd use of bots or however it is some people game the system. My initial thought was that by posting what I regard to be good quality content, daily, on a wide range of (mostly) musical topics, doing some constructive networking, and maybe picking up #steemitgigs along the way, I would in time be able to generate a modest income stream. Looks like I was wrong and that the only way of doing so would be to spend more time turning the complexities of the ecosystem to account than providing content people might want to read. You obviously find it a worthwhile string to your bow, so I’ll go away now and listen to that podcast. Did I say thanks for the post? I’ll be bearing it in mind if I do give it a try. I have one advantage – my dad was a bricklayer.
UPDATE: Ah, I find your detailed "Writer's guide to earning", which I'll be giving the fine toothcomb treatment - thanks for providing it. Already looks like your rewards might not be so meagre after all - they would certainly do me nicely. :o)