Leah wrote:

Look before you leap. Not only is the unlikely category of soap opera fandom enormous, but if you check online, you'll find that very extensive amounts of fanfic are being written about them. As an example, just type in "fan fiction" in your favorite search engine and see what comes up, particularly if you put in such particulars as GENERAL HOSPITAL or other popular daytime shows, or the names of some of the major characters. I would have thought like you--that an ongoing, long-term soap opera that unfolds daily would have no room for fanfic. I was very wrong.

I would imagine that those who write soap opera fan fiction try to do what we're trying to do (whatever that may be). There are characters that get dropped from the show that have followings, there are inconsistencies that my colleagues who tape the shows discuss at coffee break, there are characters that were played first by one actor and then another (semi-ObB7).

Sound familiar?

Susan M.