It's outrageously easy to make money here on Steemit blogging and posting. The funny thing is, the length of your posts seems to have no correlation with how much you make. I can spend 2 hours writing an article and make $0.25, meanwhile, a comment that took me 30 seconds to write can earn me $4.00. (I'm new to Steemit and this is nothing compared to what many people are making.) I'm starting to get the suspicion that commenting on other people's posts can make you more than spending hours and hours on your own posts - perhaps until you have a reputation high enough to have people read and upvote your own original content. But as I said, I'm new, and am still experimenting. I think you need to give Steemit more time.