Why Every Writer Needs A Character In Their Brain - Tony DuShane

Tony DuShane is the author and award-winning screenwriter of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk. The book was published by Soft Skull Press and the feature film, directed by Eric Stoltz, was released in 2018 and is currently streaming on Amazon Prime. His journalism and essays has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Penthouse, The Rumpus, The Believer, and other media outlets. He teaches writing at UCLA Extension and his journalism has appeared in Mother Jones, The Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle. He hosts the literary podcast Drinks with Tony every Wednesday.

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[corpsefoot]

When you love your job, you’ll never work a day in your life. So this man gets paid to daydream productively :)

[CommDao]

characters in the brain to keep us from going insane

[TheMsLourdes]

Having a character speaking in your head is the greatest thing when writing. ...and frustrating when they don't agree with the writing.

[senzation]

This is such an amazing channel. Full of expert knowledge all for free.

[monsieur]

"what does she want to say to the world" is there an actual answer to this ? I wrote a character that is deep down frustrated by how useless he feels in life, (and there also a sort of a layer where he feels alone too) but never mentions it in a dialogue or anywhere else, and the very end of the story was that he discovers something where he feels alive again (that's a summary but that's basically that)

So what does my character say to the world ? "I'm not frustrated anymore" ? that's kind of... Boring ? I wanted to tell a story about loneliness and the feeling of helplessness and having a somewhat hopeful ending but I don't even know myself what my character is trying to say to the world really...