I'm a little different. I FEED off my audience's enjoyment of my work. the more good feedback I get, the more likely I am to keep going. That's pretty much why I made JoeDios.com, so there would be a place that would serve as the central hub for Joe Dioramas and stories, and the feedback they get, forever. I didn't like other sites' policies of deleting old forum threads, as the feedback an author gets on a work of art is very important to that author.
So, in a nutshell, if it weren't for the audience, I probably wouldn't do dios. I like to be entertaining and surprising.
BUT, that doesn't mean I do whatever my audience suggests. Several viewers emailed me to complain about the brief flirtatious comment Scarlett makes to Kamakura in the 2nd scene of my first chapter. They didn't like the idea that Scarlett would take notice of any man but HER man, Snake Eyes. But people are human, and I did it for a good reason, which will be revealed somewhere around Chapter 10.
Other feedback I accept and incorporate. Like people complaining about Outback sleeping through the alarm in my dio. That doesn't make sense. I would fix it, but it kinda had to be that way since my Outback has such loose joints he can't stand up.
Also, I over-used depth-of-field in that garage scene, making important parts in-focus and background stuff blurry, but I overdid it and made it TOO blurry. I'll use a higher F-stop next time.