There's always attrition. i post assignments for people who have asked to join level I that i never hear from again. Others just fade away after one critique. It all comes down to desire and perseverance, at the bottom of it all.

i am a firm believer in reading a great deal. In my real time writing group, we are working on a study of first chapters of best-sellers. Whether you like them or not, you have to at least admit they are doing something right.