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Y&R: Who do you want as HW?


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Here is the current team, Sylph.

Head Writer:

MARIA ARENA BELL

Co-Head Writers:

HOGAN SHEFFER

SCOTT HAMNER

Associate Head Writers:

NATALIE MINARDI SLATER

MARLA KANELOS

Script Editor:

BETH MILSTEIN

Breakdown Writers:

PAULA CWIKLY

JAY GIBSON

AMANDA L. BEALL*

LISA CONNOR*

Script Writers:

ERIC FREIWALD & LINDA SCHREIBER

JANICE FERRI ESSER

SANDRA WEINTRAUB

On Trial Runs:

TERESA ZIMMERMAN (Script Writer) and TOM CASIELLO (Breakdown Writer).

*AMANDA BEALL and LISA CONNOR sometimes write both Scripts and Breakdowns.

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HWs:

Maria Arena Bell

Hogan Sheffer (co-HW)

Scott Hamner (co-HW)

AHWs/BDWs (listed daily):

Natalie Minardi Slater

Marla Kanelos

Script editor:

Beth Milstein

BDWs (listed only when they write):

Jay Gibson

Amanda L. Beall

Tom Casiello

Lisa Connor

Paula Cwikly

SWs:

Sandra Weintraub

Eric Freiwald & Linda Schreiber

Janice Ferri Esser

Teresa Zimmerman

Plus, Toups reports that Beall and Connor might be doing both breakdown and script.

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Honestly, I would also love to see some of these head writers hire a new, young, fresh dialogue writer. Someone who hasn't worked in daytime before, but is very good. These same recycled, from-soap-to-soap writers are annoying... More than their hopping from one soap to the other...

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No, it's not just an observation.

You mean Alvin doesn't value your opinion as much as mine? Oh, but Alvin and I disagree about a whole bunch of things! :lol: Like about Ferri & Esser, e.g. Trent Jones also.

Tons of stuff. :)

Also, it means that people just write down names without any real knowledge about how these people would actually write. It's just important that you write writer X Y, it doesn't mean that a person knows a thing about what kind of a writer writer X Y actually is.

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Yeah, and once again the two of you know everything there is to know about writing. Hmmmm. Interesting. NOT.

And for the record, my post was not referencing anything about what I had suggested. Actually, I couldn't care less if someone agrees with me or not. That's not why I post in any thread.

Y'all can get back to your pontificating on Y&R's HW now. It's so enthralling. :blink::blink::blink:

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No one claimed we knew everything, and this topic is interesting for some, and not for others, like any topic posted on a message board. We were looking for more informed opinions than just Victoria Rowell wrote a book, so that would make her an ideal HW for a soap or something, or just promoting this or that writer without any real evidence as to why that writer would be good.

But it is for those of us who adore talk about writing and writers in general.

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