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      ·  7 years ago 

    Congratulations @arthur.grafo , we r much excited to know about it, wonderful job you have done.

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        ·  7 years ago 

      @arthur.graf, I read your life story in one breath! Or should I rather say death stories! It is breathtaking how close life and death are to each other and guide us on our way in this material world!

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          ·  7 years ago 

        Thanks, I just wish I could experience going to the other side and returning.

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            ·  7 years ago 

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                ·  7 years ago 

              Last story is so crazy it sounds made up! How writers come to face death so often is beyond me!

              Another thing you could try doing, is improving your tags. I don't think anyone's going to search for "sfandf-empathicstories"! The last two tags are good, many people go over them. Maybe you could use "life" in this instance. Also near-death! :P

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                  ·  7 years ago 

                Thanks, I made these tags because I read that I should have some tags which move slowly, so that my posts don't disappear from there so quickly, with two that are more popular. The one you mention, it could only start being useful once people are reading my stories, so I will take your advice and change it to just stories or whatever suits that particular post. Today I dreamt an interesting dream about a little girl who is half Chinese, in Britain, being born with a prophesy that she will become the queen of England...(I dreamt the entire story, with its surprise ending!) but I won't tell you the rest until I've written and posted it.

                Anyway, as a side comment:
                I commented to someone that I upvoted him because his article was so useful, but by his asking for upvotes he stole the pleasure I get from upvoting. Since then, he has been posting comments directed at me, insulting and threatening he will flag me down to zero. Since he has much more to lose, I don't understand what he thinks he is doing, so maybe I'll disappear if he does?

                Not quite certain how I should deal with people like him. Anyway, I will do nothing unless he takes action first.

                Se' efharisto gia olla kai otan kalmaro ligaki, the giriso gia na diavaso ta ipolipa sou 'value' posts, ta opoia pragmatika einai endiaferon (they make me think). Kali Kiriaki.

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                    ·  7 years ago 

                  And who is this user?

                  You can check out any post by @muxxybot , and you'll see an invitation to The Writers' Block, which is a discord channel with writers helping each other out. It might be a good place to find more readers.

                  The tags are "slow" cos no one's looking at them! The busy ones are busy, but there's still more chances you will be discovered, cos at least there's people looking at them.

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                      ·  7 years ago 

                    Thanks, I have changed my tags, as you saw with my poem (I guess). I have not added any LC sections as I have not seen any visitors on the previous 7 ones, apart from the bots (and you). That is the next thing I must do, add #8 - I refuse to give up and...I enjoy seeing my story on the web and once I manage to convince myself to try, I am going to create a web site for the stories I publish here.

                    btw - I found a story by @randystiefer55 called Asperov's Serum. He writes well and...dare I say it? He published 10 pages in one go, without any pictures! He obviously is well known, for he is doing very well. At least it gives me the courage to keep on doing my thing.

                    I checked out the muxxybot page, but all I see is competitions. I don't react well to pressure, even though I am told it is what works for many writers, bringing out the best in them. For instance, I told you I dreamt a story about a Chinese queen of England? I started writing it, but because I spoke about it and felt someone will be waiting for it, I seem to struggle with every sentence.

                    The user? I saw a comment of his on the same page you commented on (of a woman writer) and he spoke about muting a number of people. Anyway, I took the advice given on that page (I don't have the name as my pc crashed shortly thereafter). I did post him a message, taking the blame, but also promising to stay away from him. That was the advice given and I decided it is more in line with how I am.

                    Seeing there is a comment from you is always a pleasure. If you are living in Greece, I would like to hear how you see things there. I worry about my ex family living there, but cannot ask them.

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                        ·  7 years ago 

                      Using (sub) genre tags is great IMHO, steemit needs more of them. That's why I (@croupierbot is my bot) added the tag as a requirement for the second Minnow Fiction Author Support Lottery, and I am definitely keeping it in, and thus indirectly, why you won the draw. There are way too many posts that use sweeping tags exclusively. So by all means, if you change the tags you use, at least stay away from the 5x sweeping tags practice. There are way to many posts that use a list of tags that looks something like this:

                      • fiction
                      • writing
                      • story
                      • book
                      • live

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                          ·  7 years ago 

                        Thank you very much.

                        It is a bit ironic that I had a conversation about usng my new tags on the same page you posted your message - and he advised me to use more 'well-read' tags so that people see my stories. I am keeping sfandf-fiction as my first tag for everything, even if they are not strictly of that category.

                        I would love to see other stories in there - and I have been wondering whether there is a way I could convince other SF&f writers to use it, so that there is one place everyone can go for science fiction and fantasy stories.

                        If they wish to place in there stories they have already posted, would it be okay, do you think, for them to post there just the urls to all their stories (or maybe, in groups of 5 stories per post?

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                          ·  7 years ago (edited)

                        I've switched to using 'mythpunk' as primary subgenre tag for my own ongoing work, and to 'scifi' as genre tag recently. Think indeed 'mythpunk-fiction' might be better.

                        Think I am going to write a little script for searching for potential genre and subgenre tags before the next draw of the next @croupierbot Minnow Fiction Author Support Lottery. Maybe making other authors aware of other rarely used (sub)genre posts may help in clustering these authors to the most suitable tag names.

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                            ·  7 years ago 

                          I like the 'mythpunk' idea, whether you add the 'fiction' word or not, as many of the older generations will not know what it means - forcing us to learn something new.

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                            ·  7 years ago 

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