I've been in this game (television/record) industry going on 5 years now and I have to tell you that above anything else, even your writing skills, you must have THICK THICK skin. In La La land, in NYC, in any major city with a real entertainment stronghold you have to it. People get paid to put down your shit. That's a real simple way of saying it but it's the truth. That doesn't make them right and you wrong, I see it as a way to weed out those who are not obsessively passionate about there craft.