Hello Steemians. One mistake new members and even some of those who have been here for sometime, make is not understanding some basic things about this program. And yet they complain a lot about not making any headway. What's your writing style like? How rich are your articles? Is your article such that when someone looks at it, the person would just hiss and wished he never opened it in the first place? Okay. You use to write more than 500 words. Fine. Nothing bad about writing 5000, okay. But how rich are such articles? In fact, what even make a rich article — what are the ingredients? These are some of the issues that I hope to address today so that you sit up and face this program the way it should.
I got to know that most Steemians are at best gasbags when it comes to writing quality articles when I was still interested in becoming a seasoned @curie curator some months ago. Having scaled through the preliminary interviews, I was asked to submit 5 posts that meet the minimum conditions for Curation. For one good week, I was virtually everywhere: from photography to science, to philosophy, etc. yet I couldn't find even a single post. The ones I submitted were all rejected. This experience was an eyes opener for me as to why many people are not succeeding here.
A well written article distinguishes the author from the tons of trashes that are churned out every day in this program. It makes you stand out and easily locatable by veteran Steemians. It's not about writing everyday, but how rich are those articles? How formatted are your articles? Thousands of new people are joining steemit every blessed day, and things seem to be getting tougher by the day. Rich articles are one of the best marketing tools. Use them to your advantage!
What makes articles rich
Catchy Title
Richness of an article starts from its title. The title of your article must command attention. It must speak directly to the readers on what the content of the article is all about. It should be such that when the reader scans through it, he should already grasp what the article is about.
Introduction
I had read a lot of works where Steemians just jumped straight and start developing the contextual body of their articles without an introduction. That's very wrong because the body of your work maybe too big for your readers to continue reading without having any slighted idea of where you are driving at. A good introduction should therefore introduce the topic to readers using easily comprehensible terms.
Contextual Body
The body if your article should demonstrate as well as illustrate the theme of your article. This is where examples and case studies are stated using words and terminologies that are very easy to understand. Graphs, drawings, diagrams and everything that relevant to the topic should be adopted here to buttress the facts in a way that is understandable to even a layman.
Conclusion
Here is where you compare all the facts and state what the future holds who the subject of the discourse. Your opinions on the subject matter is also welcome here.
Format your article to look neat
This is one of the problems people make in this program. They would hastily put up a badly formated works. When people see your work and it is not well organized and formatted, they would associate it with being unserious with what you do here. The least thing a whale, orca or top dolphin will do is curate a badly formatted article, unless it is an #introduceyourself post. Go now and learn the basic mark down if you haven't done so.
The length is not the gist but it matters
I don't know why new members writes lots of tweets and expect people to upvote them. You are a new member. No one knows you. You have to work on your reputation; to get followers and attract positive attention to yourself. If someone like @surpassinggoogle writes 40-word tweets or even 10-word, people would see vote him because they know him to be capable of writing more than 2000 words. He's popular and has massive followers too. Even if he spits, people would vote. Unlike you who are just joining the program. Endeavor to develop your works to at least 500 words.
I hope you are able to gain one or two things from this piece today. Thanks.
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