OH to hit trending, what a wonderful thing that would be and there is no reason to not aim high but the best way in is through the communities.
I know that @mirrors mentioned our discord channel and the link to join it, we have a post promotion channel, it requires you to interact with others but it also gives you the ability to get additional upvotes and interaction from our other members. Also the @asapers account will upvote good content and I have given you a boost to this post. Please dont give up on your blog just yet, you have some skills, you just are yet to be discovered.
Also on Discord there is also another server called PAL that has an upvote bot that is great for minnows struggling to get seen. So if your not on Discord yet, there are quite a few reasons why you would want to be.
In short, the only way I have found to make it on Steemit is with community engagement. That is unless you have a bucket load of steem to buy votes to hit trending Which in all honesty is what trending is, its generally the people who can afford to pay the bots big bids to win big upvotes.
I started with a few posts and hundreds of comments, comments and more comments, lol. Build realtionships, power up and steem on :) Hope to see you soon.