I think you may need to re-evaluate what you want steemit to be for you. In the 5 months that I have been here, I have seen many faces of steemit. Do you want to use it to make money only. Do you want to use it as an alternative to normal Social Media? Do you have something you want to share with people? Is there something you are looking for from people?

You mentioned writing. What kind of writing do you want to do? Why do you want to write? Is it to only make money? Is it to entertain, or to inform people. Do you do technical writing, is it scientific writing? There are a lot of medias when it comes to writing, but all of them need to come from the heart to be successful.

My wife is the one who brought me into steemit. I hated google, FB, and Youtube, and twitter. She tried to get me to join lots of different social sites. So far this one works for me. I am enjoying it very much.

I like to read, and have found many, many authors to read. I even ran a small steemmag for awhile, may start it up again, but I have gotten so busy on here I honestly do not have time for it right now.

I guess the best advice I could give at this point is to engage in the comments of the post you like and enjoy. Something else that may help you decide about steemit, find a new person, I mean really new less than 30 days on steemit, try to introduce them to steemit, by doing so you introduce them to yourself, and you have someone to assist in navigating the touchy parts of steemit.

Hive account@mudcat36, (he/she is in England somewhere), and Hive account@davemccoy, (not sure where he is from), have started a program of help the newbies out. They use the tag #newbieresteemday, I am helping where I can, with their project and have found it to be a rather pleasant thing to do.

At the end of the day we are all responsible for our own happiness and success.