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RE: CONTEST for Minnows– Suggest the Moral and Title of my short story and win SBD
Nice contest Idea @mirrors, make sure you post it in the Self post promo box at newbieresteemday discord, when you make your decision, and I will come by and help with a vote to all the entries also. It won't be a big vote, 20% power about one to two cents depending on price of steem. I also just might visit some of the contestants pages and make a comment on a post of theirs, but no guarantees about that.
Thanks @bashadow for the support. My intention is just about to encourage as much engagement as possible. And for me that comes from showing genuine interest in someone's work.
I have, found that several of the blogs i have read, particularly in the genres of literary works (stories, poems....) and photography, are wanting in regard to engagement.
Notably, people don't read the whole work. The courteous ones, think of them as the 'smart' ones, all about leave generic remarks, picking out, and referencing a 'line'. Of course the not so smart leave 'nice, good, great....' comments, which obviously add no value, and confer no sense of engagement.
For lack of another way, or should i say, ignorance of a better way, to elicit the much needed engagement in literary works, that which gets people really first reading and then sharing their thoughts, i found running this such contest something worthwhile. You never know what it can start.
In deed, it is an idea, which if someone else, more reputable than i am, took up and ran, would really sell. And give leaps of engagement. As it is, i am not sure how much and how many will come in and give a shot, less because of the reward because after all it is 'small', but for the genuine desire to share in the life and experience of my fictional characters.
If my reputation and clout as yet does not allow me get this idea the much needed traction, i am hoping someone else capable of giving bigger incentive (people seem drawn by them), and/or a larger following, takes it up and runs it.
Actually i am shortly penning a post proposing an idea along this, which can be taken up collectively.
Otherwise thanks for the support on this one. Much appreciated.
I joined steemit because my wife said there were lots of writers and stories to read. i am a reader. For a little while I did a small steem mag on writers, I think 12 issues, I would search out steemit for four or five Authors to profile, I got up to about 38 Authors and then started doing a few other things. There was a slight whale tiff about writers on steemit, and that kind of spoilt it for a little bit, i still read and I have a lot of Authors that I can turn to and find a good story to read when I want. I still add to it every now and then. And there are a few readers, enough that we have favorite authors of the moment, some more than others. But they are all nice to their readers. But yes the engagement with the Authors seems to be lacking a little bit. many times I find myself the only commenter on a chapter or part of a story, but the Authors hang in there, and I hang there with them giving what little support I can. And back then my vote was less than a penny.
SO I will help with votes to your audience, and they may come back for the second and third contest if you continue them. Yeah its only a penny or a two cent vote, but it's still a penny, and they add up.
A vote is a vote @bashadow. They finally add up. True. And thanks again.