You've heard the expression, "The only way to avoid criticism is to do nothing!" I'm not so sure that sloth will avoid rebuke, either, but there is truth in the idea that people stop doing things because they fear criticism.
This is one of the major reasons writers stop writing.
They block themselves from doing the very thing they want to do because they fear their output, or they, personally, will be rejected.
Guess, what? Rejection goes with the territory.
If you wish to become accomplished in anything, get used to it.
Einstein was criticized as a young student for lacking mathematical ability.
A casting director derided the skills of graceful dancer Fred Astaire.
His notes about the hoofer stated: "Can't sing.
Can dance, a little.
" I could go on.
A catalog of the best contributors to humankind would contain the names of those we admire the most.
Rejection and success go together, and perhaps they even depend on each other.
Our will to succeed is either vaporized or forged in the furnace of failure.
It's your choice, to flee from or to embrace rejection.
Invite it, by producing an astonishing amount of content.
Use The Law of Large Numbers to defeat defeat, to reject rejection, and to douse distractions, anything that prevents you from polishing your skills and reaching audiences every day.
If you stop writing, recoil from trying to publish, or permit a writer's block to derail you, you enable your critics to win.
Never do that! It is the fundamental right of every writer to have the last word!