Rocking the beard Raj! I really hope that you get in sndbox as I feel that literary works have taken a backseat in this community and I feel for a lot of writers that pour out their soul and create awesome stories and poetry but not given the recognition they deserve.
I love the tour you gave and I am rooting for you in this quest.
Thanks @maverickinvictus. I agree that literary works get overlooked sometimes here on steemit. Curie rewards quality fiction quite well and often, but there doesn't seem to be many other big entities really rewarding literary authors on here with votes anyway. There are lots of competitions with prizes, which is cool but mainly it is left up to creative writers to try and support each other which I think is a bit mental considering that crypto articles and development posts are often hugely rewarded with votes. My frustration boils down to the fact that these niche subjects aren't furthering mass adoption of steemit, they are only for the initiated lol. I know of 3 successful published novelists on steemit and the only big rewards they have ever had are from Curie, however the pulling power of established authors to bring new, non-crypto folks on to the platform is massive. It seems like there is some type of perception that this is not the place for short stories, poems and serialized fiction. I hope that one day I gain enough VP and traction on this platform to develop some type of support system myself for the creative writing authors on steemit. After all, what is a writing platform for if not to host creativity in all it's forms. To encourage and develop experimental thinking and embrace art, as well as the more analytical forms of writing. Ha ha, rant over ;-) I'm glad you enjoyed the Liverpool tour buddy, I tried to make the vlog a bit of fun :-)
I think that was the main reason why I changed my blogging habits in Steemit because fiction unfortunately get little support in this platform except for a few curie votes that I see or one when there are writing competitions.
I used to host weekly writing contests for the community I used to belong to but even they don't support participants nor even push people to join so I got tired of it and left.
I hope that you get into sndbox Raj and help the writing community get more traction here.
I have invited a couple of published writers and tried to support them but my upvote is not that high to sustain the interest.
We pretty much have the same rant on literature here.