The expectation of getting worse reception next time can already be damaging.
Like, one day you write a short story, send it to a magazine, and it gets published. Hurray! Next day you turn on your computer thinking about another story, and suddenly you start worrying “what if the second story is less good than the first one? will it be okay to offer it to the magazine? if no, then what is the point of writing it?”. (Then you spend the whole day worrying, and don’t write anything.)
The expectation of getting worse reception next time can already be damaging.
Like, one day you write a short story, send it to a magazine, and it gets published. Hurray! Next day you turn on your computer thinking about another story, and suddenly you start worrying “what if the second story is less good than the first one? will it be okay to offer it to the magazine? if no, then what is the point of writing it?”. (Then you spend the whole day worrying, and don’t write anything.)