Start your post with a catchy title, make it relevant to the post as well as interesting. This grabs your reader’s attention and makes them pause to see what this is all about.
Second, make the first sentence or so of your post equally interesting because once you’ve given yourself a chance to grab your reader, you’ve then got to lure them in to check out your post. You have to give them enough curiosity to not only click the upvote button, but to actually open the article and read it.
Once they’re here, inside your post itself, you then have to keep them here.
By breaking the paragraphs apart, it makes your post easier on the eye and therefore more inviting to read.
Make short sentences for snappy, quick and interesting reading. Then intersperse the snappy sentences with longer, more meaningful sentences that engage the reader, yet disperse facts and information to them without bogging them down.
The same with paragraphs. No one really wants to wade through a great tome of a read –who’s got time for that? Instead, give the information out with little or no fuss, plenty of humour (unless it’s a sombre, serious post) and your own style.
Adding the asterisk symbol * adds emphasis to your writing here on Steemit.
One * before AND after the text you want to highlight gives you italicised text. A double ** gives you BOLD text.
Intersperse your posts with pictures – the first one is the most important as it is the one that highlights your post on the Steemit ‘menu’. Use a picture hosting site such as imgur.com and copy the link across.
Then you’re good to go.
Good Luck!