Hullo! I'm taking some time out of #marchmadness to loudly and proudly exclaim...
⭐✨ It's been a year on the blockchain! Woo! ✨⭐
Considering that when I first signed up, I'd forgotten I even had by the time the Steemit email arrived telling me that I had been accepted, and then I was umm'ing and ahh'ing, like, "Do I really have enough time to dedicate here... I bet it's filled with bots and fake accounts... will I even come across a real person?... well... just write an #introduceyourself and see what happens."
Funnily enough, I don't think a single real person commented on my Introduction! (until I unwillingly joined a Discord group and the greeters asked me who I was and I told them I was @kaelci, brand newbie!) My second introduction in order to join @teamaustralia was much less... bot-inundated! Haha!
I'm pretty dedicated now! A lot more than I thought I would be when I first joined. I'm here every single day, for hours a day, on various Steem apps, and I don't really visit any other websites. I've joined Discord groups (willingly this time). I delegate to some communities and the occasional under-50SP I see to help them on their way. Of course @qurator and @steembasicincome and such too. I've invested some of my own money into Steem and hope to reach dolphin status this year. 🐬 Dolphin! That's enough for me. 😊🐬
I'm a bit of an introvert, a very shy and awkward introvert who thinks she offends everyone when she's just trying to be friendly, and it's taken me most of my year here to even come out of my shell, but I'm beginning to. Mostly thanks to the @freewritehouse! I've always been the silent type who roams around Steem, reading everything, trying the games that pop up, and upvoting things I like without leaving a comment... that's slowly changing. COMMENTS! 📝 I know I can do better, but it's a start and that's what matters!
I would like to give special thanks to my friend, @felt.buzz! If it wasn't for him commenting on one of my very first posts, the slow spiral into the @freewritehouse would never have happened, and I probably would've been just another lonely Steemian wondering where all the real people were.
Okay. That may be slight hyperbole --most of my posts were in response to various challenges, contests, and writing prompts delivered by other people, who would have looked at their entrants-- but it still stands. @felt.buzz was the first "real" person I met, one of the first people I followed, and was nice and helpful to the Awkward Steem Newbie. I am eternally grateful! Thank you. 😊😊😊
The post in question - Return to the Skies
Aloof, feathered and flighty,
The small bird sought the skies.
Tentative, small yet mighty,
She beats her wings, she tries.
Sweetly scented winds gust past,
She ruffles her feathers and springs at last.
The morning's breath, the fresh dawn breeze,
Uplift her heart, her soul they tease.
Bound by brick cottage, it was never her home,
Wispy white clouds she was now free to roam.
The soft pink skies were unsurpassed,
And joy was high as she rejoined her caste.
Free, feathered and flighty,
The small bird reclaimed her domain.
Confident, small yet mighty,
Her celestial prestige o'er earthly terrain.
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Being a Steemian has helped me in so many ways. And! I feel like I've become a better writer. I'm still a babbler, but when I write my fiction I feel as though I've improved immensely. And best of all, I've written things that I never would have had I not been here.
In November I joined the @freewritehouse for their #freewritemadness and I wrote and published my first book! It's not the best thing I've ever written and I cringe at it a bit now (mostly the one sex scene, ugh, did I really need to write that? Why did I leave it in? I'm sure it's not as bad as I cringe about...) but it's mine and I love it and it never would have come to life if not for being here on the blockchain. 💕 Looking forward to April so I can get it out of Amazon Exclusive and start sharing it elsewhere.
Also, in my early months here @nyarlathotep held a Fractal Writing Contest! One of my entries into the contest actually ended up being the basis for some background information in the long-running series I am slowly writing (Book One of which I hope to have completed this year after much switching and changing and rewriting).
If it wasn't for that contest and writing that little vignette, I would never have started writing my Skyswept chapters, and would never have the level of background detail I have now. And never would have gotten my first ever @curie! Oh man, I was SO excited. It was such a boost to my confidence and my desire to keep posting on the platform and it forced me to write-write-write like never before (until November Madness that is, haha!) ~ I think I did about 25 posts of Skyswept before going into other things. I never finished it, but will one day... rewritten as part of my proper series!! 😀
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I'm babbling on and on, like usual, but I'm just so happy I chose to stick with being a Steemian. I love it here! 😊 And it's been a whole YEAR! Woohoo!
Thank you for reading this, thank you for being a part of my journey here, and thank you for letting me thank you! Haha! 😊🎈🎂🎉✨ Everyone who joins my Steemversary Celebrations gets an SBI share!
Steem on!!
( P.S. I miss @cabalcoffers' SBD Minecraft server. If only it didn't have so many problems and constant plugin bugs. And a lacking population. It's no fun when you're the only person really logging in! Someone needs to start something like that up again and have it be more popular 😀)
