Originally Posted: April 30, 2009
You never know how long these things are going to lat! I certainly didn’t imagine that when I created “All Or Nothing in 2001 that I would still be writing the stories of these characters almost eight years later but low-and-behold here we are! I want to scream it from the proverbial rooftops…”ALL OR NOTHING IS BACK!!”
When I last left these characters in 2006 they were much like me at a turning point in all of their lives…those stories will be rehashed over time. But it was always like something wasn’t completed for me in terms of these people that I had grew to know over the years. I created “AON” in 2001 because I lacked something I think a lot of writers do, I was an awkward kid living in a world that I thought was quite frankly screwed up. I created a world in which I could escape and in that world I wanted to create people that I knew in my own life. I wanted to create people that I would be friends with (Jodi Bradshaw) and create people who I hated and then do bad, bad things to them, Clarissa Bryant anymore? She was murdered!
The more I got to know the people of River’s Edge the more I started resenting them for behing around and I got tired of seeing them and in 2006 I moved away from River’s Edge. Earlier this year when I was pushed by something to sit down and get to work. Before I knew it I had a 12 page outline of a story that will show the writers in daytime that just because you’re over the age of 50 you can still drive story and be leading lady in this genre that is sadly on life support. From the writing came the design of a beautiful new website that I hope readers think is elegant and class.
There is so much in store for the people of River’s Edge that readers truly have no idea what this journey is about do for not only me as a writer but to the characters that I came to love in 2001. I’ve stayed true to who they were then and who they will become now.
I hope that you will join me for this journey as we meet new faces and reacquaint ourselves with the ones we’ve come to know and love.
Until next time, step to the edge and leap…
