Imagine this. You have a great idea for a screenplay. You spend hours maladaptive daydreaming about your characters and their adventures. You might even outline. But when it comes time to sit down in front of Final Draft or whatever your screenwriting software of choice is, you can't get past the first slugline.You're already stuck, and you're afraid to keep going.Author and screenwriter Tony DuShane sat down with Film Courage to discuss this fear and what it really means to be a writer. He's the author of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk, a semi-autobiographical novel about growing up as a Jehovah's Witness during the Reagan era. DuShane adapted the novel into a screenplay, which was directed by Eric Stoltz and released in 2017.If you've ever felt paralyzed staring at a blank page or wondered whether you're good enough to call yourself a writer, DuShane can help. Check out his conversation here. - YouTube www.youtube.com Most Writers Have Imposter SyndromeFor a long time, I wouldn't call myself a writer, even though my job here is literally writing the words that appear on your screen right now, and after winning awards as a screenwriter. It felt disengenuous to say. "You know you're a writer if you're scared of writing," DuShane says. "If you have imposter syndrome, I feel like that's part of the game. Any writer who says that they don't have impostor syndrome, I'm like, 'Oh, okay.' And then usually I read their work, and I'm like, 'Oh, yeah. It's...
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