Working Girl
Soap Opera Digest: Why did you want to be taken off the front-burner in the first place?
Adrienne Frantz: I had worked every single day for years [since 1997] and I needed a break. Everyone should have time to recharge their batteries now and then.Digest: So, what did you do with yourself? Lounge around the pool? A day at the spa? Travel?
Frantz: Please. I’m much too hyper to relax. I just don’t know how. I had really gotten out of touch with my music and I really wanted to get back to it. It’s funny, I thought I would have problems getting the creative juices flowing, but I was surprised how many songs were coming out of me.Digest: Are you going to record any of it?
Frantz: I’ve been already working in the studio. I’m so excited about putting together an album. Fans have been writing letters to me for years asking when I’m going to come out with something.Digest: You talked about that a while ago.
Frantz: I was going to try and release something years ago, but I’m so glad I didn’t. I think I knew even then that I could do better. I did record and release a single overseas that did pretty well, but I knew I was capable of doing something better. I just needed the time to focus my energy on it.Digest: Do you feel your batteries are recharged for B&B?
Frantz: I got so much accomplished, which I wanted to do in the first place, so I’m very happy. I could come back here, fresh and ready to jump back into acting.Digest: B&B always has a two-week summer hiatus. Is it safe to say you don’t have any big vacation plans?
Frantz: That’s right; I have too much to do. I’m going to keep working on my music. I’m also writing a screenplay that I have to have finished soon. It’s almost done.Digest: What’s it about?
Frantz: I can’t tell you, but I’m really excited about it. I’m writing it with me in mind to play in. It’s called Solitude. I can tell you that much.Digest: So, besides spending time in the recording studio, you’ll be parked in front of a computer?
Frantz: Actually, not quite. I write everything out in longhand. I can’t stand to look at a computer screen. I have no creativity staring at a box, so I write everything out by hand.Digest: Do you use the yellow legal pads?
Frantz: It depends what I’m writing. When I’m writing poetry, I have these little blank books and I write so small that you can barely read it. It’s really odd. I’ve always done that. When I write TV scripts, I take regular notebook paper, but I have to cut off the margin where the holes are. So I make a stack of that. When I write films, I use a composition book. I have a definite style for whatever I’m writing. Isn’t that weird?Digest: Uh, yeah, so you also like to write for TV?
Frantz: I wrote a TV pilot that I called I HATE YOU. It’s really funny, believe it or not.Digest: What do you do once you write something out?
Frantz: That’s when I sit down and put it all into a computer file. But during the creative process, I only like pen and paper. I’m an old-fashioned girl when it comes to that. They even have that computer software where you can just talk and it will write what you said down for you, but that just wouldn’t work for me.Digest: You would think that writing everything out in longhand first would be too slow of a process for you, Miss Bundle Of Energy.
Frantz: You would think [laughs].
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