User blog comment:Steam Phoenix/Why it's not a good idea to post your first story here./@comment-4750363-20140925124021/@comment-25393922-20140925223632

Sure, not everyone takes it wrongly, but alot of people do. What I'm trying to emphasize here is that there are alternate paths to posting the first story you ever write as an article. It's good just to skip the post>delete>ask what's wrong and just go right to the third, thus why it's a good idea to post for criticism. Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying you can't learn from having your first story deleted, but I believe it's better to have peer review beforehand without the disappointing feeling that can come along with getting your first story deleted.

I'm not trying to paint anyone into corners, but I have seen a lot of first pastas get deleted. Even deleting your own stories not because of QS but some other reason results in disappointment; getting told in effect that your story is bad can easily lead up to people taking things the wrong way. At least, via deletion, which is frankly a very blunt way of saying it's bad. It can be quite the bruise and some serious writers don't really recover from it.

Even if a user absolutely knows that their story is great, I still encourage that they utilize the Writer's Workshop to try and make it even better. I was afraid of the QS when I first came here. So I went to a sister site. And good thing too - the fewer limitations eventually allowed me to grow more as a writer before I finally felt comfortable posting something here. I'm referring mainly to my own personal experience - what helped me.