My first attempt at SteemItBoard's WEEKLY AUTHOR award

I received my first six SteemItBoard awards some 11 days after my account was created on the Steem blockchain. This was the first I had heard of SteemItBoard awards, and I was intrigued by the concept at the time, but it wasn't a major focus of my efforts here since then. Surprisingly, I tend to be a bit of a completionist when it comes to in-game achievements, and I have spent many hours chasing elusive awards in some of the videogames I play. Finally, at 54 days since my account creation on the Steem blockchain, and 43 days since I first heard of them, I think I am now ready to start actively pursuing some of these SteemItBoard awards.

As with in-game achievements, my understanding is that these awards don't mean anything other than as a way to view my own progress on the Steem blockchain, and maybe even to compare my own progress to that of others. Below is a screenshot of the SteemItBoard awards that I have received so far, up to today...

I have just been awarded the DAILY AUTHOR award for writing four posts in one day. I achieved this with the help of Hive account@thedegensloth's Zappl and Chibera projects, as I was posting furiously yesterday on Zappl about the preview video of the new Steem-enhanced Chibera MMORPG game which is being developed by TheDegenSloth, amongst others. Gaining these SteemItBoard awards is easy when you're not thinking about them! 😄

My target now is to gain the WEEKLY AUTHOR award, which requires me to write at least one post on every day of a single week, being a Monday to a Sunday. This seems like it is not going to be as easy as it sounds. The instructions for it say...

🙚 𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒚, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅. 🙘

I may end up having to try this a few times, to get it right, particularly as my timezone is UTC+12, so I may be off a bit with my timings. Fortunately, I use SteemPeak as my primary blogging interface for the Steem blockchain, and it includes features such as post drafts and post scheduling. I've used the draft feature of SteemPeak already, and have several posts saved in draft form, but not yet completed. I've never used the scheduling feature before, so this sounds like a great opportunity to do so.

Each of the posts I'm creating which will be part of my attempt to unlock the WEEKLY AUTHOR award next week will contain the tag #steem-progress as one of its tags. It will also include the animated gif banner here in the footer of the post, with a link back to this post. I'll also add links to each of the seven individual daily posts, one for each day, as replies to this post, to provide bi-directional links and keep this project together. I have found that the implementation of tags on the Steem blockchain is not yet up to the task, otherwise I would just create a custom tag for this, such as #trisquelwhare-steemitboard or something. Also, the arbitrary use of tags is frowned upon on Steem, so I dare not just tag them all with #steemitboard, even though I have tagged this one as such, being that it is most relevant to SteemItBoard.

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