I checked your account real quick, you should try giving commenting a try! I know they don't get rewarded as much right now but you will learn how to do it better and with time and new features it will pay off for both, I think! :)

Also try to not tag them with "steemit" cause bots with no value are spam upvoting those posts right now.

This is a Reply to all of you for reading and Voting on my post. I thank you. I have found a new light to my posts and have risen from the ashes like a phoenix. Here is a new article I just posted. check it out.

https://steemit.com/steemit/@alwaysfelicia/why-steemit-will-steem-on-and-yours-will-fail-and-the-winner-is

Has some nice info in it. :)

Sounds like you are giving up too soon.  Keep working on it and you will be successful.Also, Getting rich overnight is rare.  I've been on for 4 days and I'm getting a lot of small change like at most a dollar, but I know I just got to keep working on it.  

My sister came onto steem for the first time today and posted her first article and made 60 bucks, she did that by posting some photographs.  Maybe you should try that.

Im just happy for anyone who is successful, and I am on steem because I enjoy the community, and it is a place for me to "Release Steam"

I'm treating Steem like any other forum or group. 
Just have fun, read  and participate in the topics that interest you, discarting the idea that everything revolves around making money.
If your posts  get you upvoted and make you money, that's fine, if not, no big deal. 
Concentrate on the good content and enjoy ;)

Don't give up! My twin and I are on steemit for a week now. It's fascinating to see this community interests in variety of topics and it's growing.You will find a niche.

Besides, you got my attention with the grey/white....which I haven't see a photo like that here. and the hippo :)

Please take this as constructive criticism and not slander but I personally didn't find your posts to be all that great. 

I can tell you I had a similar feeling - put my heart and sole into my first few posts - I tried REALLY hard to make the awesome. Good content, good photos, I proof read them 15 times to make sure there no were mistakes and then I'd get $0.05. Couldn't understand what was going on. 

So I did the typical new user thing and blamed the stupid website. Surely it couldn't be my content - that was not the issue. It probably has more to do with the bots, or keywords, or just getting on a whale's watch list - but how the hell do I do that? 

No... it was the content. Dunning-Kruger effect is catching up to a lot of us here who think we are writing better content than we really are. Steemit.com provides the purest form of free market valuation. It's not a matter of time = money or effort = money but rather value = money. If you aren't receiving the $ amount you think your content is worth, you simply aren't providing enough value. 

I only read your first post on the subject of "how sexy is your brain". Now again, please take this as constructive criticism and not me trying to put you down. I got about 1/3 of the way through the piece and really didn't understand where you were going with it. I was slightly confused and at about 1/2 of the way was like "meh, I've had enough" and just closed the page. And again, this same thing has been true with my content - so I've been there. 

So I've really been working the last few days on figuring out how to ADD VALUE through my content because that is really what this website is all about. Perhaps this helps, maybe not. But just my $0.02 on the subject. 

- Cheers!

thanks for your post I will be featuring it today

Come on man. You have 82 votes and 707USD at the time I am writing. Keep up the good job and you'll get what you deserve

Hi! This post has a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readability_tests">Flesch-Kincaid</a> grade level of 7.4 and reading ease of 83%. This puts the writing level on par with Tom Clancy and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I analyzed the most popular posts (as opposed to the most rewarded) https://steemit.com/steemit/@jl777/want-to-see-the-top-posts-in-last-24-hours-rank-calculated-by-minnow-1-dolphin-2-whale-3-megawhale-4

tl:dr is that they have a very large overlap and dolphins are the most active in absolute terms and way off the charts in relative terms. What this means is write posts that dolphins like and it is a matter of time it will be discovered by whales.

also, there is a high variance in outcomes, like a lottery in some aspects. Today I had a $6 post and a $1000+ so in some ways it is a numbers game

Keep at it! You can see how you have been recognized and revived from the dead, I'm guessing thanks to @berniesanders

It has happened with me too. Many of my posts are lost. But if you keep at it, eventually you'll be recognized and people will start seeing your previous work. 

The key is not worry about how much money or upvotes you are gaining. Keep writing, keep enjoying, rewards will come.

Don't get discouraged, it's only been three days! If you look at successful posts, they have a lot of pictures and have headlines to separate the main ideas. You should try doing that and see if it helps. I also noticed that people who share personal stories or their hobbies get more votes. I think you should share more about yourself to draw people in.

Maybe steemit at this stage is not a decent place to put you efforts in.

Sadly I'm feeling the same way, I've received plenty of votes but nothing from whales so it basically doesn't count and that right there tells you something is not right. I'm not here to promote my posts so here's a perfect example of one I voted for, it got a greasly $0.04 payout: https://steemit.com/steemit/@millen/steempages-com-a-steemit-business-and-project-directory-beta

I know life isn't fair but this is getting ridiculous, the whales really have too much power compared to the rest and if you don't get an upvote from one of them (and there are very few!) in the first 15-30 minutes your post is basically doomed to oblivion.

Interesting post. Well done :)

You should take a break. Write max 4 every 24 hours, else you won't receive 100% earnings and editing posts counts as a new post!
Secondly try to stylize your posts. I looked through your posts. They are all normal text + 1 picture. Use headlines and italics. Quotes. Maybe more pictures.
Third, 99% of post don't earn anything here. People simply lack the votingpower and the stream of new posts each second is too big. We can only climpse a small fraction of posts each day.
Fourth, whales are usually the developers - they are techsawwy or look for posts which promote steem(or just upvote friends).

Don't write for money, write for yourself. Keep going.
It's easier to earn money if you just comment on new posts at the beginning. Maybe take part in competitions. If you find a post which is new and already has a big payout, try to engage the author. There might be the chance that a whale notices you and your comment gets a few hundred $.

Have a good day!