I think I used to be afraid of performing for people whose opinion matters to me haha but I'm too confident now....now I'm bursting for the chance to show off to people I care about ;) Same with people I admire......... I've interviewed my favorite author, he knows where my public writing is. As much as I'm impressed with him, I've also seen some flaws in his earlier work and I'm sure he'd see flaws in mine. I'd hope he'd appreciate the good parts but our opinions don't always match so it's cool if he doesn't like it.