July 11, 20215 yr Member 2 hours ago, wonderwoman1951 said: this 2018 post explains a lot about the creation of another world: http://www.anotherworldhomepage.com/creation.htm Thank you!! They went into a lot of detail.
July 12, 20215 yr Member On 4/6/2021 at 9:02 PM, mikelyons said: Irna was a master as using themes and character history to build up to the moment you're introduced to the characters. It's not hard to get right, but if you don't know how to structure a bible, it can be very daunting. Since Irna created out first soap opera (and she did a bible of sorts for it), I'd say she's the master of the soap opera bible followed by Agnes Nixon? Why Agnes? She wrote the bible for the first successful TV soap opera, SEARCH FOR TOMORROW, the first half-hour soap opera, AS THE WORLD TURNS, and Bill Bell had a copy of her ALL MY CHILDREN (circa-1965) bible in his archive. I think that speaks volumes! while in her unfinished memoir, ‘all my worlds,’ irna says ‘aggie and i wrote the presentation., when i asked her about her role in the creation of the ‘worlds turns and she downplayed her input — saying that the bible and backstory were largely irna’s vision. in amw, irna described the division of labor for the first 2 years: irna was training bill bell was on gl, aggie was writing all the ‘world turns scripts, getting the breakdowns by mail, or sometimes dictated over the phone. irna goes on to say that ‘writing 5, half-hour scripts a week became increasingly difficult for agnes,’ and she and aggie ‘began to feel the strain’ of working long distance (aggie was in philadelphia, irna in chicago). so irna had bill and aggie trade places, and that aggie welcomed the opportunity to work on the 15-minute gl.
July 12, 20215 yr Member 16 hours ago, wonderwoman1951 said: while in her unfinished memoir, ‘all my worlds,’ irna says ‘aggie and i wrote the presentation., when i asked her about her role in the creation of the ‘worlds turns and she downplayed her input — saying that the bible and backstory were largely irna’s vision. in amw, irna described the division of labor for the first 2 years: irna was training bill bell was on gl, aggie was writing all the ‘world turns scripts, getting the breakdowns by mail, or sometimes dictated over the phone. irna goes on to say that ‘writing 5, half-hour scripts a week became increasingly difficult for agnes,’ and she and aggie ‘began to feel the strain’ of working long distance (aggie was in philadelphia, irna in chicago). so irna had bill and aggie trade places, and that aggie welcomed the opportunity to work on the 15-minute gl. I know Irna died before she could finish her autobiography, but is any of what she did complete available anywhere?
July 12, 20215 yr Member this is the full listing of irna’s materials held at the wisconsin historical society. scroll down to the part 3 of the collection, box 12. pretty sure the material has not been digitized, so you’ll have to contact them for a copy — not sure of cost. https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;cc=wiarchives;view=text;rgn=main;didno=uw-whs-us0076an Edited July 13, 20215 yr by wonderwoman1951
July 13, 20215 yr Member 1 hour ago, wonderwoman1951 said: this is the full listing of irna’s materials held at the wisconsin historical society. scroll down to the part 3 of the collection, box 12. pretty sure the material has not been digitized, so you’ll have to contact them for a copy — not sure of cost. https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;cc=wiarchives;view=text;rgn=main;didno=uw-whs-us0076an Thank you so much!!!!! 😊
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