Thank you for posting this. I am an aspiring fiction writer who has just started putting his work here on steemit. I am not very good at writing yet, but I continue to persevere. I am in the process of writing three short stories right now..... The Third Floor, Meridian's bar, and Unlucky Duck...... with the hope of publishing a short story book on Amazon. The problem with publishing those stories here first is that it is very difficult to get exposure. For the most part I get about $0.50 per story on here because hardly anyone ever looks at the stories although Curie has voted on a few of them. . It's hard to even get constructive criticism when people aren't reading them. I was hoping to get a big group of followers who would read and vote on my stories but I think most people are reserving their votes for the whales in order to get more money from curation. It's difficult to figure out how to get anywhere on here.