Highlights from The Writers' Block
The Writers' Block firmly believes that manual curation is essential to the Steem environment. As much as automated systems can be great for supporting friends and for supporting manual curation initiatives, the real key to making Steem work is hard-working humans selecting quality material to curate.
The goal of the TWB curation initiative is to support some of the best output of our own members. In a dream world, we'd have the VP and manpower to trawl Steem and support great content beyond our own member rolls, but we just don't have that right now. Our members work hard to perfect their craft, workshopping and editing their writing and helping each other, and they deserve our support.
Throughout the week, leaders of the TWB community nominate links for voting with the @thewritersblock community account. No one may nominate their own links and the preference is for supporting materials that have been workshopped in our community, but we also upvote well-written texts from active members and also other materials we feel are beneficial to our community, such as writing articles and contests.
As a supplement to our curation trail available in Steemauto, we now offer this weekly highlights post, showcasing some of the materials receiving our upvote. Our thanks go to everyone who is already supporting TWB and its members by following our curation trail, delegating VP to our account, or providing other support to our members. If you only have a few votes to spare this week or limited reading time, we recommend checking out the following links.
The highlights are selected by the leadership as a group from the posts already receiving our upvote in the previous week.
Fiction
@jonknight
A nice short fifty-word story that leaves you bewildered through a nice play of words.
Nonfiction
@jasonbu
A reminder of the events of D-Day 74 years ago. Those who served deserve to be remembered.
@idenkcall
With bravery and eloquence, @idenkcall shares his experience of coming out as part of Gay Pride Month.
Poetry
@damianjayclay
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A poem about city-boy culture from our top poetry editor.
Writing-Related
@anarcho-andrei
Taking to the new Star Wars films, @anarcho-andrei delves into dissecting the flaws of storytelling within them. The points made are valuable information for writers to think on.
About TWB
The Writers' Block is an active Discord-based writers community. Our primary focus is on peer review workshops for improving work from a variety of genres. Our focus is not just on Steem, but on producing quality texts for any form of publication. We currently have workshops for fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and songwriting. Our Poetry Academy and Writers' Workout channels provide exercises and other instruction for improving skills in those genres.
Our organization is open to writers at any point in their journey, whether new and aspiring or already published. If interested in checking our community out, follow the link below. When you get onto our discord server, please have a nice chat with our greeters. We just want to make sure new members understand what our community is about and have expectations we can fulfill.
@thewritersblock, I love your content and I have upvoted, I will follow you, do follow back and kindly check my introductory post @katoonspeaks, upvote please
Here is my 50 word story: Gave up writer's block years ago after my typewriter broke and I had to write all down in a notebook with a pen; coffee helps too for me first thing in the morning at the cafe where I begin my day writing what I have to say what I feel.
Always nice to be mentioned! And to be included here with such talented writers... well that's just groovy, man.
Yay! Thanks for the mention.
This post was shared in the Curation Collective Discord community for curators, and upvoted and resteemed by the @c-squared community account after manual review.