User blog comment:Viper123/Guess what im gonna do to aish sheva/@comment-1897744-20100310030551

I'd take your most recent fic, period, if I ever bothered. (Which I probably won't, since I'm lazy.)

It's only considered experience if you've been actively getting intense critique for those years, and actively going through the intense process of re-writing. And that's on my scale. On a professional scale, you're only considered anything other than "beginning amateur" if you've been published. (So says the published author who taught part of my creative writing camp this summer.)