LETTER FROM NEW YORK

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    November 2, 2008

     

     

    Many people like to describe their lives as a soap opera.  Not me.  When someone finds out that I’m the current co-headwriter of “As The World Turns,” a daily serial that has been running on American network television for over fifty years, the first question is invariably: where do you get your ideas?  My fervent answer is always: not from my life!  I’ve been happily married to the same man for more years than I can say without giving away the fact I look waaay younger than I am.  Thank God, our children are happy, healthy, and more or less, trauma free.  Whether that’s a tribute to our parenting skills or undeserved luck, we don’t question too closely.  So, instead of looking inward for melodrama, I have to focus outward. 

     

    With one hour a day, five days a week, fifty-two weeks a year to fill, I am in constant search for inspiration.  I can adapt a plot from classic Greek tragedy (you can’t go wrong with Oedipus) or classic vintage movies (It Happened One Night works for almost any new couple).   Newspapers and magazines offer an embarrassment of riches.  The old chestnut switched-at-birth-baby story you might encounter on any number of shows I’ve written (General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, One Life to Live, Another World, Guiding Light) was the subject of numerous articles and, needless to say, a hefty lawsuit, several years ago.  I grant you there aren’t too many people who return from the dead just as a former spouse is on the verge of marrying a new partner.  Still, thwarted romance, in all its many guises, is a recurrent theme in reality as well as fiction.  That dreams are born and die then live again is irrefutable, whether on the screen or in your heart.  Which, convoluted though the path may be, brings me to the real theme of my first letter from New York.

     

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