Blog | Author Thaine Chase

Dialogue is for screenplays

Though quite the unpopular opinion, it's one I truly love to stand by. I began my writing career in film, having a few of my screenplays...

What ‘Show Don’t Tell’ really means.

**Warning -- this will be quite the rant.** If you’re a writer and you’ve had beta readers, editors, or perhaps even other authors read...

Villains are bad, right?

Okay, if you give me a villain in your story, you're giving me the parameters of good & evil for the world you've created. You're telling...

Following rules are for the rewrites.

When hunkering down to blast out that all important 'vomit draft', don't worry yourself with any concepts or formatting rules, just get...

Why I Don't Write For Market.

Each and every day I see the same thing, writers like myself scrambling to adjust their stories or forcing rewrites to accommodate the...

If you love writing, then how can it be work?

I see so many writers, and many are extremely talented -- going about the anguish and stress of the written word -- how it's so much...