Thanks, your reply shows you actually took a look to see what I am posting.
I have never had anything to do with any social media. To me they were just a distraction and I was spending at least eight hours a day writing. The internet, for me, was only for downloading SF&F stories (from Baen, as they offer beautiful ebooks for free - I am surviving on a South African pension, so that aspect is important), doing torrent for music and movies and for emails.
After I wrote my 13th book (it ended on Word page 9500, each page the equivalent of 2.5 printed pages) I ended up with Carpal tunnel syndrome and had to stop (2014). Since then I have only been re-reading for proof-reading the books. I was dismayed to realise that even after proof-reading for the 5th time, I was still finding mistakes.
As I now had more time, I started exploring the web. I do not recall how I found Steemit, but the first thing I did is go to the tag 'writing' and discover a number of very well written stories. For my stories to be in such company felt like a dream.
All I understood about blockchain, is that if I put my stories into the blockchain, they will outlast me. I did not know that I cannot make posts with, say a 100 pages at a time, for there is a limit of 65kb for text.
I would have given up, as to add all my books to steemit will take at least six years and I don't think I have that much time. Another thing to take into consideration is that people who come to steemit are like kids in a candy store (the old kind, where loose sweets were kept in bottles), and they want one sweet from here and one from there - and rarely take the time to read anything more than a page.
After four months, I only have one reader, so I have been coming close to giving up. Then, I wake up this morning and find two messages! Yours and another one from someone who is a dolphin and has done very well. He wants to know why I am not creating ebooks with my stories.
Wow!
The truth is, by posting here, my proof-reading is totally different. I have been even cutting out entire paragraphs, or even adding some, so as to improve the flow of the story. I already have all my books in .pdf, but if I were to do a web site and make the books available there, I would give up on the proof-reading - and I do not want to do so.
I've decided I do not have a choice. I'll just have to make certain I live for as long as possible to upload as many of the books as I can. I was thinking I can, as a temporary solution. create a site and place my books there in encrypted .rar files. The moment I die, the password to the files is freely made available, but, in the meantime, as I do my final editing each finalised book becomes available.
Something like that is my way of thinking. Now I will go to see what the dolphin has to suggest.
:)
((If you read this far, thanks.))
Ok, several points.
Thanks.
For most people, it takes about six months to a year before we arrive at the point where we have enough people interested in our posts, for surviving from steemit income to be viable.
As I said, all I'm now interested in doing is posting my stories. I will also create a site where they can be found in pdf and rtf form. The truth is, I love the idea of knowing that the worlds I created exist also in other minds.
You have seen a couple of political posts I've made. I make them, but have no interest in discussing them, it takes too much of my time from my stories. So I cut you off when you decided to argue with me. Now you know why.