It does no good to have your deathless prose parked in a drawer in your desk. It doesn t count unless strangers read your work. After all, they aren t related to you. If you are going to be a writer, then you must suffer the slings and arrows of rejection. That someone is called an editor.
Editors are very busy people who get tired of reading manuscripts in the slush pile.
But they also have magazines or books to fill with prose. This makes them desperate to find people who can write. So, despite your fear that an editor will reject your work, there is always the slim possibility that they will buy your submission. One must be careful about Heinlein s Third Rule for Writers. By not understanding its proper application, I put back the date of my first professional sale by one full year.