User blog comment:RuckusQuantum/Ruckus's Story/@comment-25941663-20160906141627

Man, I'm really sad to see you beat yourself so badly. It doesn't make any sense. You are 14, for goodness sake, and English isn't even your natural language! I'm a non-English speaker too, and when I was 14 it would have taken me ages to even write the blog that you just wrote. Let alone writing fully-fledged stories. Hell, I couldn't even write fully-fledged stories in my natural language back then. And here you are beating yourself up, because you aren't a top-notch writer in a language other than your own, and you are not even 15 yet! I honestly believe if you keep this hobby up, in your early twenties you will be better than Humboldt, Empyre, WriterJosh and all the other great creepypasta writers.

It's the same thing with your graphic design abilities. Yes, you are not a professional graphic designer (even though you are better than a lot of so called professionals). The thing is though, no one is a professional by 14, unless your name is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Right now you are ahead of the curb. You are better than you have to be. You are better than a 14-year old has to be. If you keep it up, you will be a top-shelf professional in your early twenties, and that's me being pessimistic. It's insane how far ahead you are.

I believe your main problem is your own ego. You think you are a professional, simply because you are better than anyone close to your age. That's not the right way to go about it. Be humble, realize that you have a long way to go, but also understand that you are ahead of your "competition". In ten years time, you will be professionally competing against other professionals of around your age. And you are better than them now, so if you keep it up, you will be ahead of them by the time you have to compete.

Really, stop being so harsh on yourself. You are not a pro. You are though better than your future competition. So, keep it up, be humble and you will make it.

PS: By the way, the story idea about the disabled child hearing its mother dying in the other room is fucking phenomenal. If I had come up with the idea, I would have written the story immediately. And trust me, I'm super wasteful with my ideas, I only pick my very best. My god, what a great idea that was.