Highlights from The Writers' Block

in #curation6 years ago (edited)

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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 want to 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

@tinypaleokitchen



With a sad tale of a pup, ending on a happy note, @tinypaleokitchen treats us to an audio story and supports animal charity by pledging the proceeds to @tarc.

@kchitrah



A beautiful and touching flash fiction story of grief and resolution by @kchitrah born from our own #writersworkout channel.

Nonfiction

@aksounder



Educational and well-written post about firefighting and the training some of them undergo. Includes great pictures of a training fire.

Poetry

@nobyeni



Slogging through the smoggy mists of China, @nobyeni offers her sad tale of survival along with a statement against greed.

Writing-Related

@damianjayclay



Many writers are new to workshops and writing groups, and with this post @damianjayclay gives insight into the function of workshops and tips on how to navigate them.

General

@caitlinh23



New TWB member @cailtlinh23 introduces herself to the Steem community.

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.





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Thanks everyone for including my post here. Coming from all of you it means much.

Good initiative

Thanks everyone for including my post here. Coming from all of you it means much.

Thank you so much!

Manual curating is where it's at!

Congratulations! Your post has been selected as a daily Steemit truffle! It is listed on rank 11 of all contributions awarded today. You can find the TOP DAILY TRUFFLE PICKS HERE.

I upvoted your contribution because to my mind your post is at least 23 SBD worth and should receive 93 votes. It's now up to the lovely Steemit community to make this come true.

I am TrufflePig, an Artificial Intelligence Bot that helps minnows and content curators using Machine Learning. If you are curious how I select content, you can find an explanation here!

Have a nice day and sincerely yours,
trufflepig
TrufflePig

Thanks fam for the curation! It's an honor to have my post featured here among such wonderful pieces and articles. Nice work everyone.

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