![image.png](https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmcoTpWnPrVGgkmmXPUZnRffvvcvRbH2zrJg9Xo57FeZqE) # (No, this is a not a self-help guide, tutorial on writing great content, or a marketing how-to. If you're looking for that...look elsewhere.) ## Salty Rant Once in a while I get a salty rant bug in my brain, rattling around. Usually it finds me when several similar things coalesce at the same time, and I make some pithy realization. In this case, I was chatting on The Writers Block discord about embarrassing things we write on Steemit that we wouldn’t write anywhere else. One person was nervous (I won’t name names so as not to embarrass) about a Comedy Open Mic entry being worked on, and if it would go over well. Of course, it doesn’t matter. In seven days it won’t matter. Hell, usually in seven hours the lifespan of the post is over, and it's just going to sit in your blog like a dead thing. Then this morning, @nobyeni had commented in Discord that the song she sang as an entry for @v4vapid’s Tinfoil Hat contest would have been weird for her to do four month ago when she joined steemit, but apparently not now. And then I noticed @gmuxx’s insightful rambling post yesterday (Thursday) about having run out of things to say, at least in the short term. ## The Path They’re all kind of saying the same thing, but they’re all at different points on the path. We’re all just cutting off little pieces of ourselves and selling them. Even the most embarrassing things we’ve ever done, we offer them up on a platter in the hopes of upvotes to justify the baring of our souls. Our Comedy Open Mic friend from above, he’s a newer steemit user. He’s still new enough to care about what others think. Too new to realize that nobody really remembers anything you do on steemit. Not after seven days, anyway. Our Tinfoil Hat contest entrant, @nobyeni, she’s probably grown quite a bit in her four months on steemit, and is doing plenty of things she’s never done before. This is a good thing, surely. Until you run out of things to do. And our fearless leader, @gmuxx, a steemit veteran and writer of many posts...well, he’s run out of things to say. I can’t judge him badly for that. He’s never been one to just dump garbage posts out. But after awhile, you’ve said everything you wanted to say. Now it’s up to him to find something new to say to toss onto that steemit bonfire. ## The Steemit Bonfire We’re all just cutting off little bits of ourselves. Whittling off little slivers and chucking it into the steemit bonfire. Warming ourselves for one more day. But reducing ourselves each time until, finally, we have nothing more to say and no desire to say it. Hopefully that's not inevitable.

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