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Date Posted: 09:59:12 04/04/04 Sun
In reply to:
Holly
's message, "argghh - unfortunately, yes" on 06:33:43 04/01/04 Thu
Nothing specific, cuz that might get folks in trouble and the person wasn't showing me to give me scoop. They were showing me because of my writing jones and my endless questions about the HOW of it all. Anyway, they BD writers would write a paragraph on what should happen, where it should happen and who should be in the scene. One of them that I saw, had a handwritten note from the EP, asking that *'s lines be brief, because * has a tendency to go over the top and unnecessarily drag things out (NO, it wasn't Todd btw, LOL). The BD writers chose where the scene would take place, then requested that certain points be brought about in the conversation (per the HW). It was a paragraph that ran shorter than this one, actually. Then it went to the dialogue writers who probably wrote ten pages of dialogue or so, to get everyone from point A to point B.
I also saw a script, it had a lot of handwriting in it, things marked out, things added. It was kind of cool. It wasn't about anyone I cared about, like I say the person wasn't trying to give me spoils, rather just show me something of the process. I emphasize that, cuz I'd hate anyone to get busted for something that happened YEARS ago and I have to add, that it wasn't necessarily an OLTL script.
>>My neighbor up the street is a playwright/screenwriter
>>and has done some television work. He told me once
>>that he's done some dialogue writing for the ABC
>>soaps. I asked him "do they give you a character
>>outline or history or anything?" And he said "Nope,
>>all you get is an outline saying you have to get from
>>Point A to Point B in the scene".
>>
>>Kind of explains a lot, doesn't it?
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