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Hello Mr. Gilligan!

So hoping this gets noticed I just want to thank you for one of the best viewing experiences on television I’ve ever had and for one of my favorite TV shows! Breaking Bad is what showed me the potential of story telling through television.

So now the question! My whole life I have wanted to tell stories as a career. When I was younger and had difficulty making friends I would get through these moments by making stories. In fact telling stories helped me conquer a good part of my crippling social anxiety by using my story to do stand up comedy. When I got to college I knew I wanted to make a career in writing film or and TV, with dreams of making something amazing one day. As of now, that career seems like more of a fantasy.

I’ve been rejected from every single internship or job I’ve applied to and my writing feels more and more worthless. I have the fear of finishing any of my projects which I put months of work into since I have no idea what it feels like to be successful and at some points I just want to give in and not write. I hate writing that down because the only real career I see myself being very happy with in writing!

I know in order to succeed I need to keep pressing through the disappointment but I ask you, how did you do that? How did you handle the negative reactions? Breaking Bad originally got rejected from several networks for being something to ambitious until AMC gave you a chance. How did you keep pressing forward?