If they won a playwriting festival piece, in theory that would mean they'd be good at dialogue.

Seriously Khan, I thought you were more interested in plotting anyway? Would you really wanna win a *one day one time only* dialogue writing assignment? Obviously it would be some sort of foot in the door, but...

I hope if they bring back Liza, it's with someone age appropriate, not another JL who was never believable to have gone to HIGH SCHOOL with Tad, Angie and Jesse. JL's would have been like 7 when she gave birth to Colby

Maybe but she ended up being great--and I say that a s ahuge Marcy/Liza fan.

Sigh, my Lindsay

Sexy Lindsay Korman, oh how I love you so.

Am I the only one who saw this???

Jesus H Christ.

They will be SCRIPTING ONE EPISODE. They will work with the other writers. They are in a playwrighting program that Agnes Nixon's name is attached to. This all makes sense to me and I suspect will be fine. They aren't getting a contract or anything else--go enter the program and enter the prize for next year if you really want.

You just don't get it. I understand exactly where he's coming from. I actively pursued screenwriting between 1995 and 2005. Got nowhere... it's a difficult, exhausting and somewhat ego crushing pursuit. Then you hear of mediocre people like Courtney Bugler getting a job as a scriptwriter on All My Children because her aunt is Megan McTavish. It makes you want to punch a wall!

Professional writing has always been about who you know at least as much as how hard you work. That's not some new development. It's just the way the game works and it is not some unspeakable sin.

We don't know if any of those people are actually any good, and IMO most of the fans's actual grasp of the work of real staff writers is tenuous at best. So I can't really condemn any of them or render any pronouncement as though I know their work that well. Until one is in the chair, they don't.

You just don't get it. I understand exactly where he's coming from. I actively pursued screenwriting between 1995 and 2005. Got nowhere... it's a difficult, exhausting and somewhat ego crushing pursuit. Then you hear of mediocre people like Courtney Bugler getting a job as a scriptwriter on All My Children because her aunt is Megan McTavish. It makes you want to punch a wall!

I more or less get that. But this was someone who did a playwrighting course, won a playwriting festival thing, and besides money she won the right to script *one* episode. GIven all the union, etc, things, this does not mean she's joining the staff or anything.

If they were given a staff position I would get it--although I'd rather see them hired than some of the writers they do hire who seem to have no knowledge of how to write dialogue. As Vee said, unfroatunately those jobs do seem to be as much about who you know and luck than talent.

From the suntimes: "The writers will get an outline for an upcoming episode when the show premieres and then have one week to produce a finished script."

Edited April 22, 201312 yr by EricMontreal22

I understand the frustration, but I don't understand the...anger? Are they not supposed to offer this opportunity to anyone simply because, once upon a time, there were people who weren't offered this opportunity?

I understand the frustration, but I don't understand the...anger? Are they not supposed to offer this opportunity to anyone simply because, once upon a time, there were people who weren't offered this opportunity?

+1

Agreed.

That's right, it's a one word post.

I just checked the FXCanada DVR schedule--they have episode descriptions for AMC (the same vague ones we already saw) but not OLTL yet. But both on Sat and SUnday they have a marathon of the week's AMC (all five so including the recap ep) and the week's OLTL (first the five AMCs then the five OLTLs) from 10-3 PST on Sat and 9am-2 PST Sunday.

I also noticed that in the week, again PST time, at 1am till 2 they have a second repeat of the previous day's episode.

(This may sound like FXCanada is going crazy with the programming, but the station doesn't have much on it. It's based on FX, the American station but only started in Nov and aside from the major FX primetime shows--The Americans, WIlfred, etc is filled with constant reruns of 30 Rock--for some reason--and Canadian crime shows like Murdoch Mysteries.)

I just checked the FXCanada DVR schedule--they have episode descriptions for AMC (the same vague ones we already saw) but not OLTL yet. But both on Sat and SUnday they have a marathon of the week's AMC (all five so including the recap ep) and the week's OLTL (first the five AMCs then the five OLTLs) from 10-3 PST on Sat and 9am-2 PST Sunday.

I also noticed that in the week, again PST time, at 1am till 2 they have a second repeat of the previous day's episode.

(This may sound like FXCanada is going crazy with the programming, but the station doesn't have much on it. It's based on FX, the American station but only started in Nov and aside from the major FX primetime shows--The Americans, WIlfred, etc is filled with constant reruns of 30 Rock--for some reason--and Canadian crime shows like Murdoch Mysteries.)

It’s truly the best that All My Children is and can be again.

No, it isn't. No. It. Is. Not. As long as people like R Sinclair, and Vee, and myself -- people who actually give a damn about ALL MY CHILDREN, its history, its legacy, its fans, and not just people who lucked into working for the show because they're somebody's niece, or because they went to the same school as its creator and won some dumb contest, or because no one else wanted the headache of working with two schmucks like Jeff and Rich -- it is not the best AMC can be.

http://www.welovesoaps.net/2013/04/northwestern-students-to-write-episode.html

Northwestern Students To Write An Episode Of ALL MY CHILDREN

Chicago native and soap opera pioneer Agnes Nixon created ALL MY CHILDREN two decades after attending Northwestern University. Prospect Park Chairman and CEO Jeff Kwatinetz is an alum of the school as well. Fittingly, a trio of Northwestern undergrads will be involved in an upcoming episode of the soap, which returns on April 29.

Prospect Park has commissioned three finalists from Northwestern’s annual Agnes Nixon Playwriting Festival to write a future installment of the soap, likely to stream in May or June, according to the Chicago Tribune.

In addition to real-world television experience, the students will each be paid $1,500 for their efforts and receive a professional writing credit on the episode.Chicago native and soap opera pioneer Agnes Nixon created ALL MY CHILDREN two decades after attending Northwestern University. Prospect Park Chairman and CEO Jeff Kwatinetz is an alum of the school as well. Fittingly, a trio of Northwestern undergrads will be involved in an upcoming episode of the soap, which returns on April 29.

Prospect Park has commissioned three finalists from Northwestern’s annual Agnes Nixon Playwriting Festival to write a future installment of the soap, likely to stream in May or June, according to the Chicago Tribune.

In addition to real-world television experience, the students will each be paid $1,500 for their efforts and receive a professional writing credit on the episode.

To me, this sounds like a great way to promote the show and potentially train new writers in the soap genre.

Thorsten Kaye looks a hot mess in that photo above

When doesn't he look like a mess?

I can't make out anything and I am wearing glasses lol

I can barely make out Patrick something with my reading glasses.

I more or less get that. But this was someone who did a playwrighting course, won a playwriting festival thing, and besides money she won the right to script *one* episode. GIven all the union, etc, things, this does not mean she's joining the staff or anything.

If they were given a staff position I would get it--although I'd rather see them hired than some of the writers they do hire who seem to have no knowledge of how to write dialogue. As Vee said, unfroatunately those jobs do seem to be as much about who you know and luck than talent.

From the suntimes: "The writers will get an outline for an upcoming episode when the show premieres and then have one week to produce a finished script."

I understand the frustration, but I don't understand the...anger? Are they not supposed to offer this opportunity to anyone simply because, once upon a time, there were people who weren't offered this opportunity?

As much as I would've loved this opportunity 25 years ago, I'm not going to begrudge somebody else who has it now. I think it's a wonderful idea and maybe if this works, PP will eventually offer us regular fans a contest where we can write one episode.

No, it isn't. No. It. Is. Not. As long as people like R Sinclair, and Vee, and myself

Whoa, hey, what did I do?

Based on what they appear to be doing, I like these revivals. A lot. I don't think I'm owed a spot on those teams in any way. I'm all for this. If you're not, that's fair, but I don't feel the same way. And I like the contest or whatever it is.

Edited April 22, 201312 yr by Vee

You just don't get it. I understand exactly where he's coming from. I actively pursued screenwriting between 1995 and 2005. Got nowhere... it's a difficult, exhausting and somewhat ego crushing pursuit. Then you hear of mediocre people like Courtney Bugler getting a job as a scriptwriter on All My Children because her aunt is Megan McTavish. It makes you want to punch a wall!

I had no idea they were related! That is maddening--but it's expected I think. Didn't Agnes Nixon's daughter write scripts for a while? I doubt they were brilliant--both of Claire Labine's kids worked as headwriters with her, and their work together was never as good as Labine's with Paul Avila Mayer as co-HW.