(Originally posted on Writingscape V.2 on 3/21/2010) Say what you want about soap operas, but they can be good for study purposes. Watch enough of them, and you can soak up the writers’ thought processes and timing when it comes to using their elements. That said, daytime dramas also do infuriating things that make me… Continue reading Soap on a rope.
(Originally posted on Writingscape V2.0 on 8/7/2011) I got the greatest laugh ever when longtime ABC drama General Hospital pulled a terrific piece of characterization out of its trick bag last week for Harbinger of Death and longtime villainess Helena Cassadine. You see, a veteran GH viewer already knows that Helena is one of the… Continue reading Characterization: When the clothes make the woman.
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