User blog comment:Magical Toddler/Alright, Gonna Be Quite Honest/@comment-27905100-20170825041304/@comment-29652084-20170825042231

My problem with it is that using your age as an excuse doesn't improve your writing. It doesn't magically make it better. It doesn't give your work a plot where there wasn't one before.

Writing is not hard. We can say it is as much as we want, but in the end only three things are really required to write a good story: effort, reading, and practice. Don't expect to write well if you won't read. Don't expect to write well if you won't put your best foot forward. Don't expect to write well if you won't practice writing and take criticism as its due.

Age is a bad excuse, and always will be a bad excuse. The work being your first story is a bad excuse, and always will be a bad excuse. Period.