Story Cubes Round 5 Entry - A Children's Steem Story

For Round 5 I took the Story Cube Suggestions and made a Children's story about Roger, The Steem Minnow. Please enjoy!

See the Challenge pictures at the bottom of the post, along with a link to the original challenge post.

Image Credit: Tim van de Vall http://www.timvandevall.com/printables/templates/treasure-map-printable-01/

Sit down my friends and let me tell you the story of Roger, a young minnow in the great expanse known as Steem. In fact, Roger was so new to the world, that he didn’t know what it meant to be a minnow.

Roger needed followers. He had read that was the first and most important thing he could do. So he went to the trending page and commented on all of the posts shouting “Follow 4 Follow! I upvote you, you upvote me please!”

Well, as you might expect, poor Roger had a bad time of it. His efforts went down like a fiery plane crash.
The whales of the ocean looked down at the little minnow with spite in their eyes.

Most simply ignored Roger, they had seen this act before. Some even used the voting power to flag him, and Roger found himself with a reputation of nineteen.

Well, my friends, as you know, it is hard to come back from a drubbing like this. But Roger found a group of minnows who showed him a better way. “No vote4vote Roger!” They told him. “You have to put out useful content that people enjoy seeing and people will like it and vote for you.”

So Roger was at a Crossroads . Should he keep doing what he had been doing? After all, he now had almost a hundred followers. But people whose votes would give him rewards didn’t like him. So maybe he should take the recommendations of the other minnows like a sack of magic beans and spread around his interests and see what happened.

“Write about what you know. About who you are, and what you like to do.” One helpful Dolphin told Roger. This causes a light to go off in Roger’s head, like he had just found a treasure map to success!

“Write what I know?” Roger shouted with glee and amazement. “I can do that!”

So over the next few days, Roger began to write. He really enjoyed things like photography and sports So he wrote an article about the baseball game he had gone to with pictures he took of a player sliding in to home.

He posted the article he had written, and what do you know! A whale swam by and gave him an upvote. Other upvotes followed, and Roger suddenly found himself out of the hole he had dug himself in, and with reward payouts coming.

Seven days later, Roger had new Steem Power in his account. With his new reputation, and some Steem Power to his name, Roger went on to post more good articles, and made more new friends. He soon forgot about the old vote4vote ways, and became a useful and talented member of the Steem community.

So boys and girls, the lesson we learned from Roger today is to always write what you know, and don’t beg for votes. If you create good content, good people will come and you will be successful and happy.

Learn from Roger. Don’t be a Vote4Vote Kid!

Original Challenge Post
https://steemit.com/storycubes/@jacobtothe/story-cubes-contest-round-5#@mikepm74/re-jacobtothe-story-cubes-contest-round-5-20170825t015434748z