After all, the last thing they want to encourage is submissions from a writer who is hopeless. If you work hard and are lucky, you will get an acceptance much sooner than I have indicated is usual. If you work hard and are lucky, you will get a good rejection. Which is encouraging. Sometimes this happens too.
Writers collect good and bad rejections.
Euthanize your muse. Read all of Flannery O'Connor before you write anything ever again. Good luck, though. That's when you call up your nice aunt, and go over and read her your new story. Maybe she'll give you a couple of cookies.