Red Room Where the Writers Are

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• red room: linking connections, creating convergence…

  August 19, 2008

  • Now that the dust seems to have settled in l'affair Hinsey (see my previous two posts), I took a couple of days to decompress ( I know I just took a short vacation; but even on the Cape,

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• where or where to begin…

  August 14, 2008

  • I just packed away my hazmet gear after what I can only hope is my last visit to the cesspool into which Continue Reading » 4 Comments

• and they say nothing happens in august…

  August 11, 2008

  • I had planned to ease my way back into the habit of writing after a bit of time off.

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• one more before i leave…

  July 30, 2008

  • Well, I was right, Rick Decker is no James Stenbeck.

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• a little vacation reading…

  July 30, 2008

  • I’m heading off for a short vacation.

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• it’s like déjà vu, all over again…

  July 29, 2008

  • When I read about Colleen Zenk Pinter evoking Douglas Marland earlier this month, I was reminded of a comment I made almost exa

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• scrolling through the chaff…

  July 27, 2008

  • A couple of weeks ago, I was looking through the archives at Snark Weighs In, and came across this very funny piece from March 2006

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• what we have here is a failure to communicate…

  July 22, 2008

  • When General Hospital's Executive Producer, Gloria Monty, asked Anthony Geary to join the cast as Luke Spenser in 1978, he famously said, "I hate soap opera." To which Monty

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• don’t shoot the messenger…

  July 21, 2008

  • or the actor. In this case, it's As the World Turn's, Jon Hensley, who's been dodging bullets on the boards since last Thursday's (17 July) big reveal.

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• coulda, woulda, shoulda…

  July 16, 2008

  • Rule # 10 from Douglas Marland's "How Not to Wreck a Show:"

    "Good soap opera is good storytelling. It's very simple."

    First rule of creative writing:

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• the kerfuffle…

  July 13, 2008

  • Regular readers will remember a little dust-up re my post, connecting the dots - the emmy episode... When I me
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• enquiring minds want to know…

  July 11, 2008

  • just exactly who is marlena de la croix's "longtime friend and ardent ATWT fan, a television writer/producer who wishes to be known only as pjs?"

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• now, for a little change of pace…

  July 2, 2008

  • The Fourth of July is almost here, and since I’m still in thrashing around revising my chapter, and since I’ve described myself as a playwrigh

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• n = 1...

  June 30, 2008

  • Finally: I’ve been hearing from a number of reliable sources for a several months now about how much One Life to Live has improved under headwriter Ron Carvalit

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• an oldie but goodie,,,

  June 24, 2008

  • I’m on deadline for revising a chapter, so here’s an oldie but goodie.

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