User blog comment:Fireflowerman/My Decision/@comment-28938497-20150422104128

You need to keep going and improving. I started on Fanfiction.net and I got so much hate (looking back it was all just criticism) that I gave up for...about three years. Then I started again and here I am.

Okay, not many people read my stories but the people who do really like them and I know I've improved a great deal. And so will you. Just keep at it.

I've never had a story deleted, but I know a few people who have, who have went on to become POTM winners with time and practice. That's all you need.