Every individual has their different reasons for getting on board on hive blockchain which differs based on each persons' unique desire. Have been passionate about writing since my childhood days, not just any kind of writing but poetry specifically, Not that I was not capable of engaging in other forms of writing but writing poems comes naturally. I started writing poems as a child, when I was not even sure of what it was called but it provides me a way of penning down my thoughts in lines in ways only I could interpret the true meaning behind those words.
I became consistent with writing over the years and eventually I started growing courage to share my writings with others, I started with Wattpad, A kind of app where you get to share your writings with others for them to read but not monetary related like hive but eventually I met a friend, who I knew from school during my National diploma days. He invited me to hive and inform me about benefits and advantages of hive unlike any other platform, like I said in some of my write up, I was not really interested in the monetary aspect of hive at first, I just wanted an audience for my writings.
I didn't really take my hive career seriously at first, I post my poems once in awhile occasionally in communities such as blockchain poem and eventually scholar and scribe community but I didn't really get much support at first and I did not really care because I was not really focus on the earnings. later on I took a break from hive for about a year and some months but I was not away totally I publish poems once in a month or 2 and sometimes 3😅.
As a result of words of encouragement from my mentor and seeing how he was thriving on hive I felt I should give it a try once again and ever since then it has been an amazing experience so far. in this period of time I have acquired some knowledge and skill based on the challenges I have encountered and I believe it will be of use to any one who wants to foster a career on hive blockchain. I can't really categories any of the lessons I have learnt as the biggest because each of it has a role to play.
Everyone must have come across this word, for the benefits of those who have not it is known to be a text format, specific commands or symbols used to beautify and add more quality to your content on hive. some of them are simple and some are complex, I was having issues making use of markdowns especially the complex ones. my mentor tried his best but they can't be around for you always, at some point you have to fend for yourself. I can no longer remember how I came across the post but I was privileged to read a post made by @carrieallen titled Ultimate Markdown tutorial this post was made 6 years ago but lucky for you the lessons are still valuable.
Like i have explained earlier, I'm not very good at friendly conversations with people especially those I don't know physically. Those days my engagement level was really low compared to now. eventually I found out that There are two most crucial elements in building a successful hive career, which is Quality content and quality engagement, you can read more about this in a post made my starstrings01 titled Quality content Vs quality engagement vs gaining visibility on hive to understand how significant it is to your hive growth. truly creating quality content is very important but on hive blockchain quality engagement earn you more reward, connections and support than Quality content. though both goes side by side in ensuring a successful hive career but as a member of hive blockchain instead of focusing your time only on creating just quality content, you should create more time for quality engagement. if you can do both, that will be better
In case you have not noticed Hive communities give more support to members that engage in their communities by engaging and supporting post in the community or being frequent in the community discord channel activities. Have you ever wondered why? the answer is simple, it is easier for a community with supportive members to grow than a community where authors just visit to dump quality content and leave. that is why communities on hive come up with different post rules and challenge/prompt in order to ensure engagement within the community.
A screenshot from one of my post.
tags usage are a very significant aspect of creating post on hive used for various purposes such as: categorising your post by using tags related to your post, prompt/contest/challenge/community tags, usage of some tags allows you to earn tokens and occasionally airdrops. I was aware of this but there were still plenty of tags I don't know about. coming across this post made by ksam titled playing with tags: practical exercise, use and application of tags in hive post broadened my scope to know about tags and their availability.
Consistency is very vital in making progress on hive, ability to keep on performing needed activities consistently. especially when participating in contest and weekly prompt, there are certain deadlines which I need to adhere to and also my activities on dreemport daily. in reality I procrastinate a lot😅. As in, I think of a lot of ideas but I don't usually act on them, thanks to my consistency and determination in performing hive related activities, my hive career growth has been progressive so far.
This write-up was inspired by weekly prompt in hive Naija community.
