If you want to do anything with your writing other than express your thoughts, then you have to share your writing.
Sharing your writing does two things for you: it gets you to face your fears about being criticized and it exposes you to criticism. This is an important right of passage for anyone who wants to build a following.
While I don’t think that writers should aim to be as popular as possible, if you wish to do writing as anymore than a private means of expression, you must eventually face public scrutiny.
No matter what people say about your writing, the best of advice I can give you is this:
They aren’t investing in building a body of work and taking the necessary risks to grow.
You can rest assured that they wish they had the courage to do something like put their writing out there.
As the musician Gnarls Barkley once said in his hit song “Crazy”:
"My heroes have the heart to live the life I wanna live". | 
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