Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.
Piers AnthonyPolishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!
Piers AnthonyIf the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
Piers Anthony