Great article @ana-maria.
Writing about passion indeed helps a lot. It will keep you motivated, which is one of the utmost important things on the Steem Ecosystem.
Lot's of people still do believe that it is a quick rich scheme and when they see that it isn't the case, they give up!
I am not the best writer in the world, which maybe is an understatement, but still I am getting some attention. Why? Because I am genuine and because write about the things that interest me.
I do want to be pinned down to one niche. I did this in the beginning and was afraid that I would start to loose some followers if I did start writing about other topics. But I did bite the bullet and I do feel free now.
Also people do forget that they won't be discovered by only write a post and sit back and wait for the upvotes flowing in! This won't happen for must of us.
You need to put on your wetsuit and dive into the Steem Ocean, you have to discover new authors. This can only be done by writing genuine comments on others posts. One can see this at not only being interested but also as making some kind of advertising for your own account.
Steem has a steep learning curve, but people need to want to learn and put some in it!
Cheers,
Peter
I can't agree with you more regarding following...
It's impossible to be passionate without being genuine. It would be fake emotion and the readers would feel it.
Regarding niche, I had the same problem at the beginning as I was thinking I should pick just one niche and stick to it. But for me, it would be an unbearable limitation. After all, it's some sort of my personal blog and I don't have just one interest in my life. Therefore, I simply decided to get rid of those niche chains, no matter what some blogger gurus would say about it.
I can also agree with you that just publishing the content no matter how good it might be wouldn't be enough without engagement with your readers and followers, as well as finding and nourishing the new ones.