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Hi, I guess I’m looking for some advice on my career path. I love writing cause it allows me to express what I can’t in words. But this time it has failed me, I have tried so hard to express to people, family, people who work with me my career, my goal, I loving writing, but I love working towards a goal, I’m not just writing to write. but they don’t get it, I wanna start a company, I live in a pretty Spanish/white city in Massachusetts, and I am determined to start my career here, away from Hollywood because of the type of stories I write. I wrote stories that have black leads, lesbians characters, a pretty diverse array of characters in my stories, and I have told them that I like to celebrate finishing a pilot cause they tend to be hard for me, or when I finish a script, or find someway to reach my goal. but it’s the same, one in a million, I feel crazy or delusional when ever they say words like that or that I need to think reality. But for me, this is reality, I’m thinking about quitting and the sight of quitting something that helped me so much is like ripping my soul my out. You know, I have worked hard, I’ve hit road blocks ands found new paths. But I know my specific goal is not everyone’s goal, my goal is not to wait until I’m 50 or 30 when my energy and drive is not as high as it is right now. I think cause I’m young I have a unique position and determination. Writings hard, especially screenwriting, but it comes easy to me. and today I was told that cause my family is biased, my writing is good to them, and to me, but not to everyone else, and it basically felt like they were saying my writing is trash but they love me. And now it seems a little pointless to write, to do anything screenwriting related if the goal I’m working towards to create more seats for black writers and people of color, of orientations and all. Cause Hollywoods kind of outdated and an elite force. It Just doesn’t seem like i should do it. I don’t know, feeling hopeless and I’m looking for career advice, maybe I’m being stupid, maybe it’s not worth it. maybe I’m not working hard enough. I just know my writing is better than the writing that seasoned screenwriters have. And it may sound cocky, but I’ve been writing since the 8th grade, I only decided to be a screenwriter in high school when everyone said I should. including my family. ad I was in my high school journalism class, and he loved my writing.So, any advice would help, I guess.


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