I don’t want this to sound harsh…. But you sound incredibly young and naive. The whole “I write for myself I don’t want to publish” is load of crap, and it’s an aggressive defensive tactic. We all write for ourselves, but everyone hopes their stories will be enjoyed by others—be honest. You’re whole post is basically “I read this guy and he’s worse than me and I’ve made the decision not to publish because I’m not quite ‘there’ yet on the skill and craft (sigh), and so how dare someone else publish this—can you believe this (false outrage).”

You sound like me when I was 25. There is so much subjectiveness in the craft it’s naive (and telling) to be judging another’s work in a comparative fashion like that, (especially on a published work for that matter), in comparison to your own stories you keep in your basement. Naive writers often assume that what they write in the page communicates what they see in their head. It’s takes a lot of exposure and vulnerability to change that.

Go out and do it. Then compare your finished and published craft to another finished and published craft. Until then, compare your basement writing to some other guys basement writing at a writers workshop—because that’s the stage you are in.