If nobody read me... If I really believed that nobody at all really ever came here and read anything I wrote, or if I were in a situation where it would be impossible for anyone to read what I wrote, would I still write?

Well yes. Of course. Not to say because I need to or I have to, although maybe sometimes I feel that way, but because writing is one of the only things that makes me really, really happy. Writing and talking about writing. Creating and talking about creating. Characters and stories and talking about characters and stories. It is that which makes me happy above all other things. (video games, anime, books, and talking to people who don't make me feel like a moron also make me very happy. But there is nothing quite like really writing)

So if I had no audience I would not stop writing. But I would, admittedly, be less enthused, though no less happy if you know what I mean. That is, I would be happy while I was writing and while I was thinking, but I would be much less so when it was all done and I wanted to share it with somebody. Because that to me is one of the points of writing. I do not write only for myself. Any writer who says that to you is a nasty liar, unless they only write in private and they keep everything they write locked away from human eyes. And not because they're afraid of what people will say if it is read, but because they simply wrote it for them and they do not want or need anyone reading it.

But any writer who wants to make a living off of it (like I eventually do someday maybe I hope) needs an audience, and obviously must care about her readers. I need an audience. I care about my readers. I don't see any shame in that.