Hi,
I think you've already acquired a significant following and I don't think you should disappoint their expectation. I think you can expand your base if you were to participate in the writing contests I've told you about. I think you can easily adjust any of your stories to match the contest prompt with minimal massaging.
That said, I think you can augment your blog with an additional format that is more language centric: idioms, spellings..........the idiosyncrasies, history, and genesis of words and expressions.
I remember watching an interesting video that followed the development of the English language all the way from early Britts, Romans, the arrival of Angles, Saxons and Welsh, then Vikings, French influences with Wilhelm of Aquitaine and finally the arrival of Shakspere who reinvented the English language once more.
Interestingly, many long words such as "idiosyncrasies" that are Latin or Greek-based are much more known to me as they exist in just about any European language. In addition, I learned English by studying textbooks and computer manuals and are familiar with many scientific terminologies: such a cantilever, sheer force, array, dataset, epistemology, and gnoseology, etc.
It's words of everyday life that are so interesting to me. For example, "throw" and "cast" are synonyms, however, in some situations, you will use throw and in some cast. It's those considerations why do you use one word over another one is the most interesting to me.
Here is the example from your writing...
The boys helped haul all the camping stuff out of the cars
Why did you use "haul" rather than "carry"?
So I think something like this would be interesting, considering that there are many non-native speakers who wander the vast prairies of Steemit.
Pick some good meaningful picture. Maybe something like you see below or whatever you like yourself and use it as your constant heading.
Good Luck!
I've been encouraged by the general response to my post.
I like the idea of a meaningful picture that would indicate to the reader that this post is going to be about WORDS and hopefully have a fun connotation as well. I would like to continue telling a little story as an illustration.
Question. Once I've found a picture how would I attach it?
Manually each time at the end I suppose, but then it wouldn't show the would be reader at the beginning.
If you can work out what i'm going on about (lol) then please feel free to direct me.
I used 'haul' because i wanted you to feel the energy that the young boys had to exert and also a sense of achievement in their action.
'Carry' is too feeble a word to use here.
Thank you for saying that i must not disappoint my readers - that is high praise indeed.
I value your opinion.