The best thing about writing is that you can easily get into it. Once you start writing, your imagination is ready to run as free as it wants to. The reason for writing, the reason for sharing your works with an audience is to share your imagination with others. The process of actually writing your imagination down on paper is difficult enough, but the anticipation--the stress--of wondering whether or not your peers will enjoy it is a journey better left well alone. Sure, the author will always appreciate his or her audience more if they enjoy his or her work, but his or her work is something that reflects who he or she is, not something that reflects who the audience is. If people don't like your imagination/yourself, then why on earth should you moan and groan and complain about it? The imagination you placed upon paper is yours, not theirs. If they hate it, then don't stop writing. If you do, you begin to believe in other peoples' imaginations, and not your own.
