Take a page from the late Richard P. Feynman, who titled his second autobiography (from an expression his wife used to tell him all the time), "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" The answer to that nagging voice's comment is, "So what? I want to read it, and that's what matters!" Eventually, yes, you may make changes to your writing style to make others want to read it more, but that's less important than you think.

I just recently started writing for the first time in 15+ years, and have now published my first 2 pieces of fanfic on FF.net. The first one barely got noticed, and nobody commented on it. The second has gotten some positive response, including some nice encouragement. But in both cases, I wrote them for me, not the readers. Yes, I did try to polish them so that I'd be on the correct side of Sturgeon's Law, but that was more because I wanted it to be well written and less because of how I wanted others to view it.

The bottom line is, if you want to write, write, even if it's just to get it out of your head. Once it's on paper/disk/whatever, then you can decide what to do with it and who to show it to.

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[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
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