Who is/was the biggest hack writer on soaps??

[DRW50]

She unofficially wrote OLTL for about a year in the late 90's.

[Soapsuds]

Why does Elton John continue to appear in the writers thread talk??

Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha

[VirginiaHamilton]

I'm mad that you associated the Ultimate Diva Elton John to this pissant "writer".

[frequentsoapfan]

There's so many and they keep/kept jumping from soap to soap.

[Chris B]

I wouldn't include Lynn Marie Latham, because she does have some really strong work under her belt, I just don't think she's built for daytime. Perhaps, she also picked the wrong soap (probably because Y&R is the highest rated). I didn't find her that bad at PC. I'd say Hogan Sheffer is overall mostly bad and David Kreizman I found dreadful on GL, ATWT and AMC.

[Susan Hunter]

Tom Langan.

I've watched Days of our Lives, on and off, practically my entire life. There were times when I didn't pay close attention to it or watched in dribs and drabs because of school or work or raising kids. The first time I voluntarily turned the show off was during Tom Langan's stint. The whole thing just offended me.

This will probably get me stoned, but I think that Bob Guza is a lot better than people give him credit for. Yes the mob ate GH under his pen, but I really believe that Guza gets crapped on for some stuff that the network mandated .

[Cheap21]

My bad, I read the thread as biggest hack, not realizing it was limited to writers

[DRW50]

I liked some of her work on PC, but the story with Lucy blinding Serena was just way too much. I also blame that era for my longtime aversion to Julie Pinson.

I think some of that's true, but he kind of had the same stories and characterizations throughout his years at GH, even with vastly different ABC daytime heads.

[frequentsoapfan]

Yeah she's a hack but she did have alot of friends on the cast and she got a new job in snap for a primetime soap

[rlj]

Hmmm, Stern & Black from ATWT.

Pamela Long on OLTL

and whoever wrote that crappy shiot the last couple of years on GL!

[frequentsoapfan]

GL would be Kriezman, he killed AMC also

[Soaplovers]

A past soap writer that was considered a hack writer was James Lipton (he almost caused AW to be cancelled in the 60's and ended up writing Capital out with a weird cliff-hanger).

[JaneAusten]

Ok I know he's not the worst but I couldn't resist.

[Soapsuds]

Did Lipton write the whole time at Capitol?? I never could get into Capitol. I watched it faithfully but the soap was just awful.

[frequentsoapfan]

Is that RC? He's not the worse but he certainly did his show no favors an dhe'sot doing GH any favors now. He's definitely a hack