Temporarily stopped writing on Steemit.

Because Steemit has become a spammers/ trolls hang out.

My first Steemit post was about a failed DIY Peanut Butter experiment. I did not know what to expect from Steemit back then, imagine my surprise when somebody whom I don’t know personally upvoted it and left a kind message. The community vibe was very warm, everybody was reading each other’s content with eagerness and posting relevant well thought comments. Joining Steemit was like discovering a brand-new world. Unlike Facebook, there were no trolls, no haters and everybody was supportive of each other. I was in awe with this amazing community.I started writing almost every day about anything that tickled my fancy with no expectations about how much money I can earn. The supportive community made me relive my fantasy of becoming good in writing.

But then, one day spammers ruled the Steemit world. Comments started to become useless -- “Nice Post!”, “Great Photo!” “Amazing, thanks for sharing!” has become the copy and paste comments of every article. My perfect world is slowly becoming the world I was running away from.

Because I started to earn less and less.

A $1 worth of post feels like I was hitting the jackpot, never in my whole life did I imagine myself getting paid because of my writing. (I am a bad writer, I let my former classmate write my essays because I suck at writing.) Until I wrote about a recent trip to Palawan which earned more than $100. That’s when I realized that Steemit has the power change my life if I just take it seriously. And so I started to write more travel posts trying to put up even better articles than the first one. But those earned less than $10.

And then it made me think, what am I doing wrong? I thought readers are interested in travel? And then I wrote some more… still no luck. Then I stopped writing about my travels.

I started submitting Color Challenge entries, just to convince myself that I’m still an active Steemit user. These photos got more likes than my travel posts. What the hell? Does that mean that I don’t have to work my ass off to get upvotes? Then I started posting more crap. And then no more.

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You might think that I am making excuses about not writing on Steemit. Well then, let me tell you.. You are right!

I’m listing down these “problems” because I am too afraid to admit that I can’t produce quality content. That I’ve been lazy. So I have to blame someone, something, somebody for my actions. Because I’m too afraid to admit these to myself.

But now I’m back. I’m back to square one. And that’s okay. I will start writing again. You will hear more about my adventures, misadventures, what I think about the book I’ve read, the dog that keeps barking at me, the karaoke noise of my neighbor, my favorite blog, exercise I do at home and the things that you are not interested in.

I will write because I have found the best place to share my thoughts.

^{P.S. The picture doesn't have anything to do with this topic, I just want to throw it in there. :P}