Photo Credit: Still from T​he Writers’ Room: Parks and Recreation via Sundance TV
If you managed to catch any of Jim Rash’s series The Writers’ Room, a paean to great American TV series, you might have come away imagining TV writing as the best fun in the world. Far from the lonely grind most authors endure, US TV writers work in a gang, trading jokes and topping each other’s stories in an office furnished with a whiteboard and an endless supply of Post-It notes. It all sounds so exciting.