Hallo Chris, you've come to the right place! As soon as you start making items in your portfolio, people will see them, read them, let you know what they think of them. You will find the majority of the people here to be friendly and helpful. As always, when there's a big crowd, somebody might hurt your feelings without knowing they did. Reviews range from a simple thumbs-up to all out edited reviews with comments to nearly every sentence you wrote. Take each witha grain of salt, we're all here on this site to get better. There are some great groups that specialize on specific writing genres and who are eager to help you get published.

Here are a couple of links for places where you might want to start.

ID: 1188309   (Rated: ASR) The WDC Angel Army  Dedicated to promoting positivity, encouragement and support to the WDC community. by iKïyå§ama

ID: 559910   (Rated: ASR) The Novel Workshop  Would you like to have your novel REALLY reviewed? Then this workshop is for YOU!!! by Sasha

The Novel Workshop also reviews short stories. All you have to do, is review others also.
And I keep forgetting the item number, but member Love you, Lyle! has a newbie group, to help you learn how to use all the wonderrful way to use Writing.com. Click on her envelope to get in touch with her.

Welcome to the site! It's great. I have learned a lot here.