Thanks for the great article! As an aspiring writer and future author (hopefully) from RSA, it's really great to see some useful and practical advice like this.

I'm a terrible introvert and even find it difficult to communicate with groups online. Thanks to Steemit I found some great communities, but I can't seem to bring myself to interact with them. Now it's been a couple months and suddenly jumping back in seems quite embarrassing. I wonder if you have any tips to interact with groups for a hopeless introvert?

I say I'm aspiring writer, I left my crappy job at the beginning of the year to focus on my writing using Steemit as a medium, at least for starters, and I was going relatively strong for a month and a half, and then suddenly I just got caught in a massive swell of depression and couldn't bring myself to write at all. It's just over 2 months later with little to no progress, and I'm trying my hardest to pull myself out of the deep well and continue writing again.

Trying to figure out how to earn a living with writing is overwhlming me currently. Without a solid portfolio or self-confidence I feel thoroughly hopeless. I know the solution is to just sit down and force it out, build up momentum and keep going, but get started is easier said than done. The dream is to be Freelance, any tips on how to get that going?

Again, thanks for the great and pragmatic post.