: About Me

My name River. I am in the process of launching my own e-publishing company to publish new creative writers and hopefully give them a leg up. I have a weekly humor & entertainment e-zine. It is irreverent and funny, and not for the easily offended, but all in good fun. It has the only advice column on the web that is handled by a cat-penguin hybrid. And no, it is not pornographic.
I have written a screenply and I am in the process of converting it to a stage play as well as into a novel. Writing is my air, and I hope to be doing it for a very long time.

My passion is ...

Writing, and since I am an insomniac, sleeping is big with me too.

I know too much about ...

movies from the 80's.

My parents always told me ...

to go to church.

My childhood ambition ...

To be a world famous philanthropist with someone else's money.

My favorite memory ...

The first time I kissed my husband. It was gutsy and funny.

Why I write ...

Same as everyone I suppose...to be heard.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I am reading John Stewart's book on America, listening to Rie Sinclaire and watching 24. I am VERY good at multi-taksing

My first job ...

Video Store Clerk

My best moment ...

I hope it is still to come...my past ones haven't been that stellar.

My inspiration ...

Probably my medication.

Entertainment > TV Genres & Trends Soap operas: Death is magic & the afterlife is standard

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Nobody does death like the soaps. Mainly because nobody but soap writers have the audacity to make death so easily reversible. Anyone on a soap opera can die. The writers "pull the plug" on characters without prejudice. However, prejudice does seem to arise when that character is wildly popular, because while they are not afraid to kill them, the writers are VERY afraid not to resurrect the popular people. It might be 3 days, three weeks, three months, or three years, but they will bring the dead person backusually right when the dead person's greatest love is about to marry someone newsom...

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