You're right, my posts of a nicely bullet list of a good essay consisting a thousand word and i just got like four cents or something. I can totally relate. But because of that I do not write that much recently as well. Seems like new comers coming in here either their posts were not really getting attention or they do not have friends with big super powers. This is the thing we are having here in steemit. But I do thank those people who upvoted , there were like 80 upvotes on an article which only fetches less than four or five dollars in total. I had already half given up on writing again. But due to the recent jump in steem price and sbd, that even if i got a 0.04 cents that would probably mean something. However, what this platform had given me was some group of friends and with good intentions creating good articles. And some good articles that I follow and it has been a while. But then this thing had hit some road bumps along the way. I hope the road bumps do not interfere with the content creator because I find the contents are good. I think the payouts can be better if the curators earn more if the total earnings reach a certain amount. So far I don't find curating earning much but instead I find the community more interesting, which do get my upvote for it.