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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 150029" data-attributes="member: 22">Neither do I.Val announced it (her retirement from writing) to Aunt Ginny, mostly to shut her up and stop her interfering in her life. By the end of the episode, she&#039;d changed her mind.Oh, I always kind of bought Val as a writer -- when she was writing, that is - i.e., her first two books.I think it&#039;s hard to convey the act of novel writing or composing dramatically because is writing is such an internal process. By and large, I think the soaps got away with it, with Val, Donna and Maggie*, because their work was set against their every day, i.e., marital, lives, but in bio-pics it&#039;s much harder to convince the audience that this is the moment when Dickens had the idea for Great Expectations or this is when Paul McCartney wrote &#039;Yesterday&#039;.He wasn&#039;t believable full stop. I don&#039;t think real people and soap opera mix unless you&#039;re Zsa Zsa Gabor.Yes, not showing too much allows the audience&#039;s imagination to fill in the blanks.Well, it (Karen not drinking) was a clever use of Karen&#039;s past in this scene because it forced Paula and Mack into another intimate moment (toasting each other) -- with Karen watching and smiling.You mean she might have cast her in Dynasty: The Movie?*Hey, that&#039;s a good idea for a future Soap battle: who wrote the best Soap Land book (or script) we never got to read?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 150029, member: 22"] Neither do I. Val announced it (her retirement from writing) to Aunt Ginny, mostly to shut her up and stop her interfering in her life. By the end of the episode, she'd changed her mind. Oh, I always kind of bought Val as a writer -- when she [I]was[/I] writing, that is - i.e., her first two books. I think it's hard to convey the act of novel writing or composing dramatically because is writing is such an internal process. By and large, I think the soaps got away with it, with Val, Donna and Maggie*, because their work was set against their every day, i.e., marital, lives, but in bio-pics it's much harder to convince the audience that this is the moment when Dickens had the idea for [I]Great Expectations[/I] or this is when Paul McCartney wrote 'Yesterday'. He wasn't believable full stop. I don't think real people and soap opera mix unless you're Zsa Zsa Gabor. Yes, not showing too much allows the audience's imagination to fill in the blanks. Well, it (Karen not drinking) was a clever use of Karen's past in this scene because it forced Paula and Mack into another intimate moment (toasting each other) -- with Karen watching and smiling. You mean she might have cast her in [I]Dynasty: The Movie[/I]? *Hey, that's a good idea for a future Soap battle: who wrote the best Soap Land book (or script) we never got to read? [/QUOTE]

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