Early on, if I was grouchy about something here, it was usually a low view count. Now we don't even have a view counter. I can't be here when it gets quiet. I internalize that stuff, drives me nuts, makes me think I did something wrong. It's also incredibly hard for me to get around to everyone and comment. All these years and I haven't been on Discord. Rarely use steem chat. Too busy trying to write and produce art, daily. Damn right it causes burn out. And nothing I do means anything, especially the art, if people don't look. I grateful though for all the good that has come my way. I don't take it for granted. I want to work and at least feel like I'm earning all this, and I do.
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Yup, I feel the same way. This is why I end up considering leaving pretty much every week. It's also why 0% of my fiction or poetry gets posted to steem anymore. I'm not going to devalue the time I spend crafting it by putting it out here and giving up first publishing rights.
I also wish there was a view counter on steem still, it would make it a hell of a lot easier to judge how much impact you're making as a writer. I arrived just after they scrapped it.
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