I see... Well, admittedly, I have some ulterior motives for offering up my writing services... Artists on the other site I'm on like to charge commissions for their artwork. I have no means to pay nor the money to shell out for it to begin with. While I have found a few people who willingly do free art requests, the guys I really would like the best works from aren't offering them to anybody but friends... However, I've found a loophole: a lot of those same artists also do "art trades." But, my problem's been finding those who'll take a story as part of a trade instead of just regular art. It's been kind of a nightmare finding anyone to redraw some of my characters to begin with, and the few who said they would are currently backed up on requests (one partially being backed up on some requests I made, which I only did because he offered to take more after already doing one for me). While I'm sure some of the artists I'm following would do trades for stories, the ones I really was hoping to talk into them shot me down right away (in fact, one went so far as to insult me by telling me that "stories are completely unacceptable for trades! I want real art!" That one really hurt because I'm really proud of my writings).
As far as spriting goes...I've found it rather difficult to do. I've tried doing pixel art of my Fakemon on GIMP, but my things always turned out awful. In your case, I assume it's just not going well, right? :/ In any case, sorry to hear you're having a hard time with it.