life is survival. some of that time in life make money, some of it is a learning curve, sometimes things happen, sometimes they don't, i try and treat things less of a race to a finish but more a pass to continue to take part. keep doing you're thing, maybe look at spreading some of that writing energy into paid client work, i work on upwork and skillshare and that brings in additional revenue, i treat steemit more like a place i can put a blog up for free, no more wordpress sites and i actually get comments. for me that's huge! :) keep, keeping on!