I've blogged some SteSMS posts, now I modify my original idea a bit.
It just won't work here (Steemit) without a picture (except you are a rock star).
The war goes for attention, and while short, simple posts are also worth attention, they seem very unprofessional in the feed without an image. And 80% of the war depends on the feed (click or not).
I didn't want to add much code to this, but either a little code or unnoticed posts. Therefore I wanted to come up with a short template.
I wanted to avoid:
I've decided to add that image what I used at the announcement of my content type experiment. I modified it a bit: cut a 16:9 part of it, where the text is at the center of the picture (little vertical frame and 1/3 text, 2/3 image ratio).
The best formatting option I've found is pulling it right. It can fulfill all the requirements above, and it gives an extra advantage I'm going to write about after showing an example.
Here is a template that everyone could use. It's short, rather a note than a document.
<div class="pull-right"><img src="http://www.steemimg.com/images/2017/01/03/stesms38951.png" alt="stesms" /></div>
YOUR TEXT HERE
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Note that you can delete everything after 'YOUR TEXT HERE` if your say isn't about an exact image.
Here is how it looks like in practice (without START and END).
START
END
You can see in the example above, that the format and placement gives an extra advantage at Steemit. You could know when you are writing a too long story. When the text flows under the image, it's getting longer than 1-2 sentences. When there are more lines under the image, you can start thinking making a regular post instead.
Image Credits
[1] SteSMS image by 
[2] Public Domain
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