I’ve been rewatching Succession (about to start into Season 3), and revisiting interviews and profiles on the writers.
This insight came from an interview with playright Lucy Prebble, who had glowing things to say about her experience in the writers’ room- but her insight on the plight writing by yourself really stuck out to me:
“I had only ever written on my own before, which is a remarkably unstructured and depressing way of working.
You’re spending all your time on your own.
You’re ruminating heavily.
You’re criticising yourself.
Those three things are the major building blocks of depression and those things – whether you’re writing or you’re depressed – can be quite hard to tell apart.”
- Lucy Prebble
