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Film Courage: How is writing a spiritual journey for you?
Tony DuShane, Writer/Podcaster/Teacher: Oh man, that’s a question.
It is a spiritual journey.
It’s a soul calling journey.
I feel that even without any outcome, I have to write every day.
I feel like the writing every day puts my thoughts together or what’s going on in my head.
I feel like it shifts my perspective where I see my ideas on the page because I write my morning pages where I just go ahead and write whatever’s on my mind and things that make me sad.
I’m including the gratitude as well.
I believe that’s especially now with our phones and the doom scrolling in the news.
It’s just like the beauty of having all of that out of the way.
Plus I handwrite all of this too.
I guess on a spiritual level it soothes my soul.
I’ve just traveled to Europe and I was in Paris.
I still get panic attacks and I still get a lot of anxiety.
I was on the metro and I was really having a…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk by Tony DuShane –
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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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