Nothing is easy in this world. Even conning/cheating people requires planning. When the rate is good, sure the money is excellent. When it's not, no reason to stop writing. I would say just keep at it whether we like/don't like the communities, love/hate writing, good/lousy rates etc. Just keep at it.
that's the best way of doing it. before steemit , i've never writing much except for social media contents. its a lot of time and patience required i guess ... but been loving every single day of it