Chase Pletts joins us for the seventh episode of Unedited: From Idea to Manuscript and Shelf to Screen. We discuss his journey from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and from a young reader of Jack London to a winner of not one but two SPUR awards from the Western Writers of America. Chase also discusses the path from screenwriter to novelist (and then back to screenwriter) and the imperative of mining the pain of one’s own life to suffuse the fictional with reality.
At seven years old, banished to the bedroom during an adults-only holiday party, Chase Pletts discovered a videotape of The Exorcist and popped it into the VCR. The nightmares only lasted a few years, but his fascination with storytelling has lasted a lifetime. A screenwriter and Spur Award-winning author of The Loving Wrath of Eldon Quint, Chase also moonlights with an AI company, doing everything he can to prevent Skynet. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.
This podcast was recorded before the fires devastating Los Angeles, including the Glendale area in which our guest, Chase Pletts, lives. So many of our writers, friends, colleagues, and even family are in or around the path of the fire. Hoping for low winds and containment soon.
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