Your Story is Like a Tomato. Most New Writers Don’t Know This.
And we sometimes get depressed or run out of patience.

Many people who enjoy tomatoes will grow a tomato plant at their home for the fresh fruit.
A lot of tomatoes to sell.
Some people grow a lot of tomatoes to sell.
Professional tomato gardeners don’t grab their spring planting from the garden center in a big-box store. They know what strain works best for them and they start that particular variety from seed the previous winter.
A tomato seed, sprouting in its peat-pot has two determining factors for its ultimate success.
Two determining factors.
One is its germination rate, which varies some by cultivar and more by the age of the seed. If a particular package and type of tomato has an eighty percent germination rate, the grower understands he needs to plant ten seeds to get eight plants.