The best way to hone your writing skills is to write constantly. Eventually, you'll begin to notice patterns of what works, what doesn't work, and what would work if you didn't use it constantly.
However, this only works to a certain degree; you will never be able to step back and look at your piece as objectively as another human being can. You put too much effort and emotion into it for that to be possible. No matter what, there'll be a little nagging voice at the back of your head screeching, "But I worked so hard on this! How could it be bad?!"
This is where Steemit comes in, right? You post your story and the kind people taking a look at the writing tag decide to give it a look and then put down their thoughts, helping you grow as a writer in the process.
Except for the fact that the posts everyone is paying attention to have to do with traveling, cryptocurrency, real-life tragedies, and how to succeed on Steemit. Including... us.
The solution? Well, the best thing would be if everyone suddenly went, "Hey, I should provide feedback on all these seemingly ignored posts because the author would probably appreciate it!" That's not going to happen, though. Instead, I propose that people start using "helpmeimprove" as a tag to indicate that they not only need feedback, but are more than willing to give some in return.
Basically, using the tag is a sort of unenforceable promise that you'll give some sort of criticism on another post with the same tag. If we don't abuse by leaving the commenting to "other people"(which, with that attitude, nobody will comment, ever), it should work out well for everyone.
Thoughts? Ideas? Is anyone even reading this?