Recipe for Writing Soap Opera
According to Jeanne Goosen
Create an anorexic heroine, a tall handome
hero with passionate eyes, a surgeon by
preference, appealing to motherliness
by fighting his way out of poverty
Insert two troublemakers, Beulah and Ursula,
forced to stay together by sharing knowledge
of dirty secrets; a few criminals, three senior
citizens, an adorable child or two
Choose happy names like Maybelline and Claude
for the hero and heroine, add an eccentric called
Patrys Polokwane writing fairytales about Russian
involvement in the Anglo Boer war
Add theme music from clairvoyant séances for
zombies, conclude with the fairytales being
published under the name of Patroesj
Polekwanski – over and out
Ready for the next one...
Jeanne Goosen Article “Russiese Feëverhale uit die Anglo
Boere-oorlog', Rapport - Boeke,2 August 2009, p.3
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