Best author/post contest for 3.5SBD give away

Inspired by the #newbieresteemday network,@newbieresteemday, and @deliberator (whose similar competition I came 2nd in about 3 weeks ago), I am offering 3.5 SBD to the best posts submitted in comments to this post over the next 7 days.

Rules:

• To enter, write a new and original post, and link to it in the comments. You must also vote on at least one other entry in the comments.
• To be eligible for entry, you must be have a reputation of 45 or less at the time of entry, and not be worth a massive amount of steem/SBD/SP (delegated or otherwise).
• The winner will get 2 SBD, 2nd will get 1 SBD, 3rd gets 0.5 SBD.
• In the event of a tie, I'll split the prize-money accordingly.
• The winner will be the person with the highest number of votes (not the highest pending payout) on their entry comment at the time of this post paying out in seven days.

Please feel free to vote on your own post. But remember, you must also vote for at least 1 other entry. As @deliberator said in their contest, this encourages us all to view other people's material, find new people to follow, and generally expand your networks of support, friendship and creativity.

For the sake of impartiality, I am not going to vote on any comment for this competition. But if I read a good entry, I might vote on their post and/or follow the author.

To recap: To get on this competition, you have to submit a post (written in the past 24 hours at the time of your entry) in a comment below, read other people's posts, and then vote for at least one other person by coming back and voting in the comments section. After this post has paid out, I'll tally up the votes on entries and send the prizes out a day or two after (depending on how busy I am next Friday).

I'm doing OK this week (thanks to @curie) so I'm more interested in resteems and new followers than votes - but if you do want to upvote this I will be very grateful.

Finally, if you are a newbie, and are Australian or an Aussie ex-pat, residing in Australia, or have some other Australian connection, you should consider applying to join #TeamAustralia for fun, meetups, mentoring, support, and the best discord channel in existence. For more on this, including how to join, see @choogirl's excellent post here.

Thanks for reading.

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