"When a writers' room is working well, it's like you're walking on the moon. You're suddenly released from the thing that could take you a week to figure out at your desk on your own. You're suddenly bounding around and picking up rocks and everything's veined with gold and it's like you can have these golden moments of the ideas coming from everyone and you're all on the same wavelength and it can feel quite magical."
"You can get really good days and hours working writing alone, but when it's not working and you feel you're not going to equal the best version of the thing you're trying to make, I would find that very, very difficult. The theoretically consoling idea that oh, it'll be all right because you've done it before', actually becomes another rod for your back. You don't know how possible it is for me to be a really bad writer because you don't see all these drafts where it's really bad."
Jesse Armstrong describes a well-functioning writers' room as producing rapid, collective creativity, likening it to walking on the moon with golden moments and shared wavelengths. He acknowledges that solitary writing can yield productive days but that creative isolation can make achieving the best version difficult. The reassurance of past success can become added pressure, increasing anxiety about producing poor drafts. Armstrong's credits include creating the HBO drama Succession, co-writing In The Loop, receiving an Oscar nomination, and winning BAFTAs for Peep Show. Despite numerous Emmys and Golden Globes for Succession, he continues to experience impostor syndrome.
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