Another soap writer started a blog. I am loving this trend!

http://thebiz.fancast.com/2008/05/deep_soa...rs_guide_t.html

Thanks Toups

Love Sara

Wonder why she was unhappy at AMC??

Nice blog, I'll be checking it more when she updates.

I heard Latham fired her when she voiced her opinion over Adrienne Leon's firing last year.

Too bad AMC didn't work out for her, she seems like a big fan of what that show used to be.

I hope she can eventually make her way back to Y&R, but I don't think that's happening. The show seems intent on destroying itself.

Wonder why she was unhappy at AMC??

Let me count the ways...

I would imagine that it ruffled some feathers at AMC when someone who actually cared about the show started showing up the story meetings and giving her two cents. Esesnten, Brown, Walsh, Demorest, Hayes, and Carruthers had clearly gotten to a place where they were content to just fly paper airplanes around the room and collect their paychecks. Bibel probably tried to get them to actually engage some brain cells...and out she went.

Given the time where she was with the show I would wager she didn't see eye-to-eye with the rest of the team on the "Crash" story.

Given the time where she was with the show I would wager she didn't see eye-to-eye with the rest of the team on the "Crash" story.

She wasn't there for the "Crash" storyline.

Not so happy weeks at AMC

Wonder what happend? I feel bad because she sounds like a big fan of AMC.

What did you do B&E??????

It's writers like Sara Bibel that give me hope. A tiny amount of hope...but hope nonetheless.

And yes, LML fired her because she actually thought her opinion mattered. I'd love to see her back. But, like Y&RWorldTurner said, Y&R appears intent on self destructing.

I hope she spills about AMC.

Right on!

This was AWESOME!

Thanks so much, Toups!!!!!

Yeah, I don't know that the American public is not homophobic anymore. But I do think that she's right about the tidal wave of fear going on in the media in general. This is mainly because the economy is so bad and the networks are capitalists through and through.

I'm definitely seeing a trend in the younger set of daytime writers.

I wonder if daytime just insists on shooting itself over and over again, starting in the foot and making its way up. They say they want new blood, but clearly, that "new blood" is what they're slowly phasing out.

The writers who keep their heads down, don't care what soaps used to be, and basically just get their work done with no muss or fuss, seem to be the ones who stick around, whereas those who grew up on soaps in the 80's (with the exception of RC, but there's always one exception to the rule) got their chance then were quickly shuttled out.

Is it fear? Lack of raw talent? Insecurity? I don't know - but it's interesting to see how similar Sara's story is to other younger daytime writers, and wonder if maybe there isn't some kind of underlying, unspoken bias against them.

I look forward to reading Sara's blog which hopefully continue once she gets a much deserved new gig in daytime.

I look forward to reading Sara's blog which hopefully continue once she gets a much deserved new gig in daytime.

Oh, I hope she gets re-hired soon!!

Fire the Bears(B&E) and hire Sara Bibel, AMC definitely could use some fresh blood

Well, I'd like to know the answer to this:

Sara, thanks for this great blog! It's nice hearing from the inside which is so rare. I must say I'm very disappointed Maria Arena Bell didn't bring you and other former Y&R writers back post-strike. I imagine it's probably due to contracts that she kept nearly all of Lynn Marie Latham's bloated writing staff. You can tell it's holding her stories back since they continue to write in the plot driven manner LML taught them. It's improved due to a stronger leader, but still needs the people who know and love the show to truly be great again.

My question is, how did you end up leaving Y&R? How was it for all-but-four of the pre-LML writers being let go? You guys just won an Emmy for GREAT work and knew that show well. LML has been gone since Christmas Eve and the show still hasn't fuller recovered. Biggest.Mistake.Ever. Even worse, one of the people she replaced you guys with was her 21 year old son. It just seemed odd and she had no plan at all. "How many friends can I hire and how fast?" seemed to be the only thing in her mind. Stories, plot points and what little character development we had was often dropped as more writers were added or she got bored. A great example was the dreadful Phillip Chancellor story which didn't include Nina or his son and barely included Jill and Katherine, instead focusing on newbies Amber and Cane.

Daytime should look at Ron Carlivati at OLTL and realize it's time to take risks. What can you lose at this point? If viewers are invested in the characters they're more likely to stick around long term as opposed to the short term stunts which don't even work anymore.