kdpierre:
But I have a question based on some of the responses here. To those who said they think a portion of their own work is "garbage" or "rubbish": in the case of an effort that you yourself think has not hit the intended mark, do you send it in anyway, or is it deleted or stored away out of view? And obviously the follow up to that is, if you send it in anyway.........why?
I can tell you why, at least in my case. When I finish a story, I'm too close to it, I wrote it, I sweated over it, maybe it took me a long time to write it. I'm too close to it to be a good judge of it's worth, of course I think it's worthy, I did it. Later, after it's put up on the site, and I get some not glowing comments on it, I may reread it and wonder why I sent it in. Plus we tend to be our own worst critics.