I have applied to @thealliance more than a week ago. Still waiting.
I have applied to @promo-mentors, a few days ago, and am still waiting for them, too.
I will try the Steem Engine and see how it goes.

Things have slowed to a crawl here and I'm a little disappointed. On the other hand, I did get a curie vote on my latest post and that was really nice.

I guess what I'm seeing is that some of my ideas are going to float better on Medium than they do here, and Medium is starting to pay people. I really like to write and I really enjoy the feedback I get from it.

I've posted on Medium before and one of my articles got curated by Scott Santens. If you want to see what manual curation looks like on steroids, go there. So I am thinking of dual posting just to reach a wider audience. Caitlin Johnstone is doing that, and her articles do very well there. Here, they just get $20-30, though lately, they haven't been fairing even that well.

I will just write on.