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Film Courage: What is outlining?
Tony DuShane, Writer/Podcaster/Teacher: I don’t outline before I do a first draft.
I maybe have ways where I’m going, but I like just writing scenes.
I write scenes and I see how the characters play out.
I’ve used this example before with Quentin Tarantino.
He outlines the first half of his film.
Then he stops and he writes the whole film because he doesn’t want to know how it ends.
Not only do I not want to know how it ends, I don’t want to know exactly how I’m going to get there.
So that is so when I outline.
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Maybe by the third draft when I’m like, All right, now I got to start seeing what I have scene-wise and where it goes.
Then it tends to get shifted around on next draft, next draft, next draft.
I kind of do it in a very scattered way.
I need to see my character in action.
I need to get to know my character.
The only way to get to know my character is to write out the scene and see what my character does in the scene where I’ll know what the scene is.
But when I’m writing it, all of a sudden it kind of takes over and I go, Whoa, I didn’t know that was coming up…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
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BIO:
Tony DuShane is the author of the semi-autobiographical novel Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk. He adapted the screenplay for director Eric Stoltz, and the film is now available on Amazon Prime. His journalism and essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Penthouse, The Believer, and other media outlets. DuShane has hosted the author interview show Drinks with Tony since 2002.
He teaches novel and screenwriting at UCLA Extension.
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