User blog comment:TheBookWorm247/I give up on making stories/@comment-26475800-20171119140505

Here's the deal, no matter how bad your stories are, you can always get better. The more time, effort, and passion you put into a story, the better they will be. The hardest thing to learn, for me at least, is editing. But once you get a grasp on what is needed for a story to work, flaws will start jumping out at you.

As for rejections, don't worry about them. I don't remember who said it first, but there is a quote that says if you're not getting a hundred rejections a year, you're not trying hard enough. How many have you gotten so far? I have one story that has been rejected by at least six different publications, and the one it's with now, at least I'm hoping this, is looking promising. Have hope and no one can take that away from you, except yourself.

Follow Bannings advice too, it's good advice. Reach out to other people and learn from them. Develop a thick skin, because you'll need t to be a writer. I know a person who has been published many times, sent a story to an editor, and the editor sent it back marked with red pen, like she was a high school teacher correct an essay. There were a lot of hurtful things on his story. Needless to say, he did end up getting that story published. That was also before the advent of the internet, but that editor had always stuck with him. And the kicker is that story, not even edited after the editor marked it with her red pen, was not only published, by also made it into one of those best of the year anthologies.

So learn from your mistakes, reach out to people who know more than you, and don't give up. You can use the WW here, it's a great place to learn the basics.