...[T]he conversation after the piece is half the piece.

Bingo. I'll delegate some resource credits while you get started so you are able to fulfill that. Once you have your own Hive Power stake, you'll be fine on your own.

I don't know whether I should try to tell you what you ought to write to find an audience, or encourage you to write what's on your mind until an audience finds you.

You could re-publish content you've already written, but if you do that, it would be best to link to the source and decline payout here lest plagiarism detection flag you as a dirty no-good copy-pasting scoundrel. That happens. However, if an editor butchered a draft, this could also be a place to share your full work without their revisions mangling it all as an ongoing independent backup. All of this depends on any copyright, licensing, and exclusivity entanglements of course.