What is an example of a contest you've used?
Like your tone more than your advice; we've always believed that if you write good articles, "build it and...", like Costner in that baseball fantasy movie "they will come". You've written a nice article here, mostly of inspiration. We're not taking your advice on bots, think it's a cheapass way to go, but we understand writers wanting to be read and being desperate for attention. Writers are prima-donnas by nature, otherwise they wouldn't write. We just accept that part of their nature, but we've seen a lot of people criticize that behavior (for the wrong reasons). When we say "they", we include our prima-donna selves-- cauwrse!
Keep writing, keep writing well, and we'll keep reading so long as the content is good!
btw, we found you bc @reggaemuffin resteemed this-- just so you know who to thank.
Thanks so much for letting me know about reggaemuffin's resteem. I've joined a few contests so far. Jerry Banfield had one for the Spiritual Writing Contest. @rensoul17 has one still going for using at least 4 of 30 words in a post of poetry or poetic prose. There was another about how one might promote STEEM. I'm always looking for contests!
For the bots, some people think they are good some that they are bad. I just think that they're advertising, and I resigned myself to paying for that on any platform about a year ago.
You should look into @ginabot, if you want to know when people resteem/upvote/reply to your posts or comments.
https://steemit.com/ginabot/@ginabot/ginabot-the-best-notifcation-service-in-the-steemiverse
I've been using it for about 2 weeks now, and I love it.
I will look at that. Thanks for the article.