You gotta do what you love and do the best you can do with it. And commenting around the place and making friends helps too, or at least helped me XD
Anyway if you start posting music and art again maybe think about using the creativecoin tag, which will also get you the ccc tokens because more tokens, and it's also a lot cleaner than the art tag (which may be fine now but was a bit of a train wreck the last time I looked at it ages ago).
RE: Making large on a Steemit Blog