jaketheman welcome to steem! And thank you for your recent upvote of my zapfic story.
I'm here to give you some advice. I'm still quite puny and new at this myself and could be giving you incorrect info here so just keep that in mind.
First, you gave me a 100% upvote. Sweet, but since your vote is steem worthless at his point (warm and fuzzy is good too though) and you only get ten upvotes a day before you get shut down, you might want to consider using a platform to access the blockchain that allows you to give smaller votes. I use steempeak for this - when I press upvote it opens a slide and I can choose to give, for instance, a 10% vote. If you do this, you get to vote 100 time a day instead of only 10. I find steempeak more user friendly than steemit, which is what I suspect you are using.
Check out steemd.com to see what I mean by this (kind of - it's still mostly mystery to me). This is for information purposes only. You can see how many votes you have left for the day until your account recharges - this has to do with the 15 steem power you received when you started up here. check out your wallet. Lots of zeros there! You can make even fewer comments a day and those are full charge, so DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS MESSAGE OF MINE. You can email me at [email protected] if you want to respond. If you're familiar with discord, join some steem groups there. I haven't been able to figure discord out so i don't use it much and can't help you there.
To make moola enter contests. There are many many contests! A quick and easy moola maker is the zapfic contest. Just enter and you'll get a few cents here and there. https://steemit.com/steembasicincome/@felt.buzz/zapfic-contest-tell-me-a-tale-in-240-characters-or-less-results-of-last-week-and-new-prompt-ciewuepz
I hope this helps.