Editing Claire Labine (section)

===1990s===
In 1993, Labine returned to daytime as head writer of [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s ''[[General Hospital]]''. She brought the show much critical acclaim, and won her seventh [[Daytime Emmy]] for Outstanding Writing for her work on the show. She chose to depart the show in early 1996. During this time, she created a proposed ''General Hospital'' [[Spin-off (media)|spin-off]], ''Heart and Soul'', about two families, one black, one white, both show business families. The black family was three generations of jazz musicians. Next door was a theatrical family. The show was not picked up by ABC or [[NBC Daytime|NBC]]; Wendy Riche's competing ''[[Port Charles]]'' was ABC's choice instead.

Labine co-wrote, with [[Judith Pinsker]], the 1995 ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' bestseller ''General Hospital'' [[tie-in]] novel ''Robin's Diary'', based in the [[AIDS]] storyline between characters [[Stone Cates]] and [[Robin Scorpio]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Labine|first=Claire|author-link=Claire Labine|author2=Judith Pinsker|author2-link=Judith Pinsker|title=Robin's Diary|publisher=ABC Daytime Press|date=November 1995|page=[https://archive.org/details/robinsdiary00pins/page/180 180]|isbn=0-8019-8775-X|url=https://archive.org/details/robinsdiary00pins/page/180|access-date=February 19, 2009|url-access=registration}}</ref>

In 1996, Labine was offered the [[head writer]] role at ''[[As the World Turns]]'' but turned it down because she and her son [[Matthew Labine]] were trying to get HEART & SOUL [aka Union Place] on the air. "I had to turn it down because we were in the middle of that development.  I said to [[Procter & Gamble]], 'I am gratified by this offer, but if I have any chance at all...'  I didn't think there was much chance but I thought it was worth a go to do our own show. And they were very lovely about it."

In late 1996, she was made head writer of ABC's ''[[One Life to Live]]'' because she had a year and a half left on her contract with ABC. She remained with the show until early 1998.