User blog comment:JeffxLaughingJack/My story got deleted/@comment-4715955-20140311050636

You forgot "proofreading and editing," the most important phase. Never take it for granted that your work is quality: it makes you put too high a value on your work, and can make you react to criticism and deletions like Elizabeth the Killer (whose shit-fit blog is still going strong). Writing it over a few days is a helluva lot longer than most pasta authors spend on their work -- most just churn them out right in the submissions box. Even so, when you finish a story of any length, you then have to proofread and edit it every day 'til you don't catch any more mistakes -- the story's not done just because you typed "the end" on the last page. Then you take a break for a while and work on something else. Then you come back to the first story and go through it again, see what mistakes you missed, or what aspects need improvement, whether it makes logical sense, whether it's even scary at all, etc.