And if you want to get better, you can find people who can help. In my first fandom, there was a woman in my circle of friends who was old enough to be our mother, and she was sort of a den mother to us (we were all high school and early college - how she got attached to our group, I really don't know). She died very suddenly about three years ago, and in all the posts from the group grieving, one of my friends pointed out that the thing she appreciated most from this woman was that she read ALL our stories. She commented on every single post, with something substantive and encouraging. If you needed a beta read in a hurry, she was the one you asked.
We were kids, all of us. We were mostly kind of terrible writers, because we were young and inexperienced. But she decided to take the time to encourage us all the time, and we all got better. By the time she passed away, nearly all of us had written at least one novel or screenplay. I think three have got agents now, or have already sold a manuscript that's being published. I don't know how many of us would have stuck with it if it hadn't been for the support from her and others.
It's exactly as you said - in a community like this, you can find everything you need to be a better writer, and you can help others get improve too. It's humbling, and amazingly democratic.
We were kids, all of us. We were mostly kind of terrible writers, because we were young and inexperienced. But she decided to take the time to encourage us all the time, and we all got better. By the time she passed away, nearly all of us had written at least one novel or screenplay. I think three have got agents now, or have already sold a manuscript that's being published. I don't know how many of us would have stuck with it if it hadn't been for the support from her and others.
It's exactly as you said - in a community like this, you can find everything you need to be a better writer, and you can help others get improve too. It's humbling, and amazingly democratic.