guide

Recently a lot of people have been asking my advice on how to be a successful blogger on Steemit.com, the decentralized, blockchain-based social media site that pays its users to participate. I decided to just go ahead and write the ultimate guide to blogging on Steemit for those who are serious about it.
STEP ONE:
Know yourself and your strengths.

I chose three bloggers, @oppong, @mynameisbrian and myself for very specific reasons: we are all very different and we don’t hide it. Perhaps most importantly, we are all prolific bloggers with idiosyncratic world views. We all live on different continents, too. We write a post at least every other day and sometimes two in one day. Each of us offers readers a different menu but we’re all very passionate and don’t really follow the worn-out self-help guru meme that still seems to be infecting the blogosphere.
Brain (@mynameisbrian) is mostly a comic artist now, but he used to write about other topics.

He also is a programmer who built the ultra useful Steemit tool, Dead Followers. But there are tons of programmers on Steemit, so creating hilarious comics was a wise move because there still aren’t a lot of active comic artists who are as good and prolific as Brain. At one point, during Steemit’s lowest point, Brain was about the only reason I logged into my Steemit account. I am most likely his biggest fan.

Only write about things that make your heart race or you feel might expose too much of yourself.

I first heard this terrifying advice from James Altucher and it scared the crap out of me. But then I started doing as he advised, and it changed me, in a big way. Fear is telling you something you need to hear. Go towards your fear and let it spill out. People only want the good stuff, so if you feel that your writing is not tapping into something that makes you feel a certain something, throw it out. Only write when you have that nasty little urge inside your guts.