"The ocean — the origin. From whence I came. And where I'll return, when my time here is done. On the day that I become free."

That was a good story. Short enough to read at a glance but with a surprising twist. Well done. Changed the way I look at paper, too.

No problem. I spend most of my time on the site reading through non-trending posts and making comments. I don't have any voting power, so at the moment there's very little else I can do to contribute.

Hi @robsteady I don't think there is something specifically "wrong" about your post that caused it to do poorly, and when I looked at it I gave it a vote because it seems like the kind of original

Hi Alice. Welcome to Steemit. I think you're right in that there is plenty of room on the site for more food-based content, and I have a feeling you'll do well here. On the downside, I'm now hungry for

The dance moves were amazing, but the grin on your face in the picture with the frozen pond behind you is what earned a solid upvote from me. Nice to see someone look like they're truly enjoying life.

I think the future of a digitized identity and is to have every individual registered to a unique cryptographic key that represents their "true identity." Under that sort of system, you have

That's a pretty clever illustration, and also a nice phrase to base it on. Six word reply: "Words say nothing. Actions say everything."

"grass roots" — I see what you did there...

Thank you for the explanation. Very interesting. I was curious about this myself.

I see. I haven't particularly felt constrained by any rules in writing my novel or my poems, but I suppose creating an entirely new format is a good way to suggest from the start that the are no rules

In your mind, what makes a person's username less representative of themselves than their actual name? I would note that a person chooses their own username, making it therefore directly representative

I use imgur: Another option is SteemIMG:

Hi John! I'm also a writer and occasional poet, and I think your idea is interesting. My question would be, what are your thoughts on what differentiates a "micro-novel" from a short story or

I'm also interested in knowing the answer to this question. So far no one seems to know.

Is that a Holo cosplay from Spice & Wolf? One of my favorite series. Keep it up!

Since the price bottomed on 7/29, it's back up about 15%. There's been a lot of worry around the "price drop", but you should consider that Steem increased by over 1000% in a little more than

There are many active users here, but they do tend to cluster around and respond to posts that are already popular and made by well-known users. To get to a point where more users create and interact with

Hopefully it works out for you! I've done the same in the past and had both good and bad experiences with being entrepreneurial and striking out on my own. As you say, the initial shock of "O-M-G

Interesting. I've been mining Steem in Ubuntu using VMWare, but I've been thinking about more casual options that are easier to maintain and only require Windows. Steem mining only uses the CPU as well