where the writers are

Latest News & Events

part 3 of a conversation with lynn liccardo about soap opera

Apr.08.2013

in part 3 of my q&a with sam ford, i examine the connection between today's critically acclaimed dramas on fx, amc, hbo, showtime, and elsewhere and the daytime serial drama, then consider the future of serialized storytelling in the digital age.

http://henryjenkins.org/2013/04/as-the-world-stops-t

lynn's Latest Blogs

May.06.2013 - 5:27 am
During a recent interview, those crazy kids at over at Soap Opera Network threw Senior Vice President of CBS Daytime, Angelica McDaniel, a real curve ball, asking (hypothetically...
Continue Reading »
Apr.27.2013 - 2:32 pm
the excerpt below is from an article in The Hollywood Reporter, and speaks volumes about the questions I raised in my piece considering why Prospect Park filed suit against ABC...
Continue Reading »
Apr.26.2013 - 6:56 am
and the law firm of Lavely & Singer for distracting me with some much needed levity at the end of a difficult and frightening week ...  I live just outside Boston, and as...
Continue Reading »
Apr.24.2013 - 6:20 pm
and I don't have time to go into a lot of detail about my growing disappointment with Mad Men. But, of all the commentary on MM's sixth season thus far (and there's been plenty...
Continue Reading »

Comments from lynn

Jul.18.2011 - 2:46 pm
In response to: clicking around the digital daisy chain...
in compete agreement and solidarity about "too high standards" in the current market. love you description about...
Jul.11.2011 - 10:08 pm
In response to: soap opera’s ultimate legacy...
the story is being told in the first place. as a playwright, i see an important distinction -- in the creative...
Jul.06.2011 - 2:11 pm
In response to: hello barbara...
i, too, grew up watching the p&g soaps with my mother. not sure where you're located, but one life to live is...
Jul.06.2011 - 12:38 pm
In response to: hello barbara...
as to the writing, doug marland was loving's headwriter from 1983-85, which partially overlaps anthony herrera's first...
Jun.07.2011 - 6:51 pm
In response to: it's all in the timing...
which was the brainchild of donna swajeski, who before she began writing for soaps, was a programming exec at abc...

Reviews I've Written

Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
03.Nov.2008
lynn liccardo reviews
This is a title that I could not resist when choosing books for the Housewarming Party prize. It is a book meant to be read many times. During the first pass, so many of these six...