3 ways to gain more points and improve your chances of winning a higher prize in the ongoing diary game.

in SteemAlive4 years ago (edited)

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Introduction

The diary game season 2 has been quite a revelation since it began 37 days ago. Tons and tons of stories pour in everyday and we are really treated with so much insight into the daily activities of people everywhere. The journey has been an amazing one. Beyond the knowledge we gain from these dairy posts, there are prizes to be won. A total prize of 5000 Steem to be won by the best performers should be a motivation to do your best. At the end of the game, you want to smile home with some cool Steem. We all want to. But then, if you set your set on a high prize, then you also need to raise the standards of your diary posts. There are many ways to do that. But in this article, we take a quick look at 3 ways to enhance your chances of winning big at the end of the day. @steemitblog has made these recommendations earlier.
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I. Format your posts: Formatting your posts is a nice way to make it easy on the eye. By default, your texts are aligned to the left as you publish each post. While it is the general setting used by several word processors, there is a way to make it look great. Have you read a newspaper or magazine recently? You will notice that the texts are not aligned to the left. The alignment style used in most newspaper and other publications is justified alignment. With justified alignment, the system automatically add extra spaces inbetween words on each line, thereby making all the lines to have equal length. So with this formatting, both the left and right margins have a straight line. This post was formatted with justified alignment. Dont you like the neat appearance?

How to justify text on Steemit

To format your writeups with justify alignment is very easy. Check the image and steps below


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Step 1: Type this code. This is the beginning of the justify tag
Step 2: Type your texts after giving one line spacing from the beginning of the justify tag
Step 3: Type this code. This is the closing tag of the justify alignment.
Step 4: Here is the result. Your texts has justify alignment. The left and right margins are in a straight line.

Justify alignment makes you articles look decent and very easy to read.
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II. Use separators: Separators or dividers are used to create some space between your paragraphs or subheadings. Instead of having a long story in as one text, separators can be used to organize your thoughts into sections. It will be easy for someone to read from section to section, or quickly jump to a desired section.

How to use separators

The most common separator is space. So write in paragraphs of subheadings and put enough space - one or two lines with nothing in it - between sections of your text. This will make it easier to read.

Other most common form of separtors are lines. Usually they are designed graphics that can be inserted at the end of a section or subheading. You can see that we used line separator to beautify this article. We have desired some free line graphics which you are free to use in your posts. Click here to get them.
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III. Edit Images: You probably use your mobile device to take diary pictures. The truth is that if you use your images directly like that, chances are that the size could be too large for your post. Additionally, some images may appear blury or dull. So its a nice thing to edit your images. You do not need a special app to do that. Your smart device like has basic image editing functionality. So you can increase the contrast and brightness of your images. You can resize or crop them so they do not appear too large. Other editing work will likely make your image look better than the original. also remember to add captions under each image, to describe what is happening.

When you use edited images, it is easier for the ready to understand what is happening and the story makes more sense.
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Conclusion

These recommendations above will give you extra points and improve your chances of winning a bigger prize. Always check @steemitblog announcements for further reminders on how to improve your diaries. If you do the right things, post everyday and make great content, your chances of winning it big will be enhanced. We wish you the best in the remaining days of the diary game.

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 4 years ago 

Good content @focusnow, this is definitely going to help increase the level of value content creation in the game. Thank you very much for the tips. Trust me well formatted posts are easy to read and comprehend. Wish i win this 5000 steem price though. This is going to help me build more influence and hence give me more resource to promote and bring more steemians on board the steemit platform. Thanks once again for the tips.

#onepercent #cameroon

@steemalive, nice article and a good reminder.
Thanks for the update.

 4 years ago 

Thank you very much for the good encouragement and multivation

 4 years ago 

@focusnow this is really a great routine for points, but most expectations some times seems to be least outcomes, I can't really tell whose fault Sir.

 4 years ago 

This is great!!

Thank you very much sir for this awesome guide you've given to us. With Strict adherence i am sure i gain more upvote not only here but else were cause i think it is steemit globally accepted format for post creation.

Very useful article.

Nice Article

Will take my Diary Session Seriously

Nice points I will definitely improve on the above mentioned suggestions thanks .