The Writers' Block firmly believes that manual curation is essential to the Steem environment. As much as automated systems can be great for supporting friends and for supporting manual curation initiatives, the real key to making Steem work is hard-working humans selecting quality material to curate.
The goal of the TWB curation initiative is to support some of the best output of our own members. In a dream world, we'd have the VP and manpower to trawl Steem and support great content beyond our own member rolls, but we just don't have that right now. Our members work hard to perfect their craft, workshopping and editing their writing and helping each other, and they deserve our support.
Throughout the week, leaders of the TWB community nominate links for voting with the 
As a supplement to our curation trail available in Steemauto, we now want to offer this weekly highlights post, showcasing some of the materials receiving our upvote. Our thanks go to everyone who is already supporting TWB and its members by following our curation trail, delegating VP to our account, or providing other support to our members. If you only have a few votes to spare this week or limited reading time, we recommend checking out the following links.
The highlights are selected by the leadership as a group from the posts already receiving our upvote in the previous week.
Fiction
With a sad tale of a pup, ending on a happy note, 
A beautiful and touching flash fiction story of grief and resolution by 
#writersworkout channel.
Nonfiction
Educational and well-written post about firefighting and the training some of them undergo. Includes great pictures of a training fire.
Poetry
Slogging through the smoggy mists of China, 
Writing-Related
Many writers are new to workshops and writing groups, and with this post 
General
New TWB member 
About TWB
The Writers' Block is an active Discord-based writers community. Our primary focus is on peer review workshops for improving work from a variety of genres. Our focus is not just on Steem, but on producing quality texts for any form of publication. We currently have workshops for fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and songwriting. Our Poetry Academy and Writers' Workout channels provide exercises and other instruction for improving skills in those genres.
Our organization is open to writers at any point in their journey, whether new and aspiring or already published. If interested in checking our community out, follow the link below. When you get onto our discord server, please have a nice chat with our greeters. We just want to make sure new members understand what our community is about and have expectations we can fulfill.
