Silver Lining was a working title of a Soap Opera I wanted to create when I was about 14 or 15. I have kept up with all the Soaps since I was a young child, whether that was by reading about them, watching them if I was able too, or as of late watching them via Internet. With Silver Lining I had created several characters and had an initial story ideas for them. After keeping track for years I figured out what seemed to work in the Soap world and what didn't. So my make believe soap had the bad characters (all soaps must have at least one), twins (most soaps back in the day had a set), competing companies, love triangles and characters you route for.

         Yet Soaps seem not to touch on some issues or copy one another; so mine was going to change it up a bit. For one thing my twins where NOT going to be one evil one good but be identical and best of friends. The wealthy family was going to be Jewish (I was born Jewish and a core character let alone whole family is very rare even today on a Soap) and own Penny Corporation a interior decorating successful company (in competition with another successful interior decorating company). My soap was going to have their core families be a mixture of rich families, middle class families and poor families that are on welfare. My story was going to touch on how the three intertwine in the most unsuspecting ways, how a poor family can be just as entertaining as a rich family. I was going to touch on taboo subjects like bi sexuality!(not done on soaps even today or for most part prime time either), abortion (another subjects both prime time and daytime are hesitant with creating story about), welfare (another taboo still today). These are just a few of the stories I wanted to pen for these characters to make my story different then what is already on air or was.

         To help bring the characters to life I had cut out picks from my Soap Opera Digest magazine of the actors or actresses that best fit how I pictured the characters, and put them in a photo album with little descriptions of who the character was in my story, who they where related to and about how old they were. Funny thing is I still have that photo album but not the original script I started to write. I realized I wasn't good a scripting dialog. I am better at writing a story. So I figured I will maybe once again try to have these characters come to life through blogging their story for those that may be interested.