User blog comment:Deadblogger/Well this is unfortunate/@comment-26425680-20151227001124

I understand how it can frustrating for a new author to offer up a work, only to have it roundly rejected. You've taken to this blog to do a little venting, and that's actually fairly common around here, but it does little to help your situation. I think you really have to ask yourself how involved you'd like to be within this community. If you honestly and truly want to succeed as a CP writer, start engaging some of the other users of this site. Leave comments on their stories, give your opinions in the writer's workshop, chime in on a blog post. You'll find that the more you contribute, the more you'll get back. Taking your story to the Writer's Workshop has already been suggested, and while that's good advice, I've noticed that it can be hit or miss regarding the amount (and quality) of feedback that you get. That's why I'm suggesting you become more active in the community. Once people know you, and know that that you're fully invested in becoming better writer, they'll be far more willing to help you along. As it stands now, you have a grand total of 6 edits to your name... pretty much all you've done is submit a subpar story and then complain about its deletion. Some people here have spent years honing their writing skills and making contacts. So you spent hours, and possibly days, on your story? That's nothing, my friend. It doesn't boil down to the amount of time you've spent on a specific story, it boils down to the amount of time (and effort) you've put into becoming a better writer.