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You can earn up to 5 SBD per accepted submission for guest curating The Daily Sneak. Submission requirements are published at the bottom of each edition of The Daily Sneak.

For today's edition, we have a new guest curator. Let's give @tibra a warm welcome to The Daily Sneak! @tibra is a scientist who writes fantasy and science fiction under various names.

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Stop Imitating Whales. Instead: Clear Your Mind & Find Your Own Voice

The author, @steemfluencer, has written one of the longer and more positive essays on what users can do to improve the quality of their own posts, and the quality of content on the platform in general. Rather than being vitriolic, the essay is constructive. His argument is that rushing is harmful and encourages imitating other users. Which is not productive. A clear mind, producing original content, and interacting with other users will produce a better outcome.

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Silent observer

This is an entry to the always fun constrained writing contest by @svashta. In my opinion as a writer, this short fiction by @eriesunkite is excellent. The challenge was to write a story from the perspective of an inanimate object. And that without revealing what the object is. The author succeeded. Furthermore, they used a literary style to accomplish this goal. Which is something I like, as reader of The New Yorker, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, etc. If that, too, is your preference, you might want to check this out.

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Conclusion

I really enjoyed these thought-provoking selections from @tibra. Stop by these great posts and let the authors know what you think! For submitting these inspiring selections and commentary, @tibra earns 2 SBD today.

That's more than $12 USD!!

Each of these highlighted articles receives full upvotes and resteems from @sneakyninja. As an added bonus, @sneakyninja sponsors featured writers for Steem Basic Income!

Submission Requirements

1. You can choose from 2 to 5 articles for your entry. Submissions with only one selected article will be ignored.
2. All articles chosen for curation need to have been published within the last 5 days before your entry. It may take time for me to publish your curation, and curated articles need to be within the reward window when your submission is published.
3. You cannot submit your own post for curation. Selections from nsfw will not be accepted.
4. Selected posts should have less than $50 in total rewards and have not previously been curated by The Daily Sneak.
5. We try to spread the love around, so while selections from authors that have been highlighted before are welcome, they might not be included if the author's last inclusion was recent. Similarly, if you include two articles from the same author in one submission, we will typically highlight only one of the two.
6. Be sure to include your personal bio for me to introduce you to readers, and make sure that each selection has commentary. This can be just a few sentences about why you think the selection is worth our attention, or what is great about it - something that will make people want to click through the headline and check out the actual article. English is preferred, but other languages will be considered as long as English translation is included.
7. Please use this web form to submit your entry. https://goo.gl/forms/VH2MGIMEgqZmd9ef1
8. Including image links to the source article is not required (and we prefer to leave some mystery if photography is highlighted and the article has only one photo.) However, we like to include images in The Daily Sneak, and not including any image links may decrease the likelihood of your submissions being published.

If you include more than 2 articles in your submission and not all are approved for publication, your submission may still be published into an edition of The Daily Sneak, as long as at least 2 articles are approved. This could happen for several different reasons. If you are unsure why an article was cut, please review the submission guidelines again. If you are still unsure, feel free to ask politely why it was cut.

Submission Reward

A brief biography of each guest curator will be included in the edition that uses their submission. In addition, each guest curator will receive 1 SBD for each article from their submission that is highlighted in The Daily Sneak. That's up to 5 SBD for each accepted submission!

Right now @sneakyninja's upvote is not worth as much as we are paying for guest curation. Why do we pay so much for guest curation? We believe that quality curation is very important to Steem. Paying our curators well encourages them to spend more time reviewing content and picking out the best pieces!

Banner headline sourced from Pixabay. All other images are sourced from the curated articles. Published commentary about articles are the !originalworks personal opinions of the guest curators, and may not represent the opinions of The Daily Sneak or its editor. USD earnings of guest curators are based on market price of SBD at time of publication. SBD prices are subject to change.