There is more stuff to fish mister lewis! Although I even got to know you from your less than $3 posts it was always fun stuff to read man. Now it feels a bit like the real world man, we have to make more effort to still get a decent payout.
I write every single day and I make a nice $1 from it (that eventually will worth a nice buck when steem moons I still hope), but the fact starts to show..we have to stick together in little groups to survive.
So thats what I am doing, putting in the effort to work with groups...And helps..
I dont know what changed by you at that moment when the payouts got smaller, but it helps to keep looking forward and make a strategic plan. In my case this turned to delegating a lot of my SP, so my VP will be used more profitable.
It aint 'just' writing some posts man anymore
That sadly, is exactly my point. I write because I enjoy writing. I don't enjoy the strategic side of things where you have to buddy up to certain people and groups. I don't want to feel pressured to join groups in fear of being blackballed; I just want to write and read good content, and reward content I enjoyed reading.
If it is now a huge aspect of doing a range of things to get noticed, then I'd rather focus my time doing that with my books than my blog. I want this to be fun, not a full time job. I've seen people who focus all their lives on their blog and that's not the life I want to live. All I'm saying is the money isn't there for me anymore. Maybe it's there for others for reasons I haven't figured out yet, but it's not there for me. That was my point here, not to slag off Steemit, but to say how much it has changed, and unfortunately for my specific example it has changed for the worse...
I think in this case for sure you should 100% priority in your books. And what you were doing before, combining the wordpress with here..i think that was the way to go. Bummer that it aint working in this way anymore like that. Time is scarce!!
The strange thing is that it used to work, and worked very well. Then for whatever reason it stopped. If it never went well then it would have made far more sense. But I think you're right; far less time is needed on this place and focus on my latest book is needed. I'm 45.000 words in now so if I switch my energy towards that I could have it finished by the end of August