{"id":2741,"date":"2019-09-13T11:38:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2019\/09\/go-where-youre-drawn\/"},"modified":"2019-09-13T11:38:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T15:38:32","slug":"go-where-youre-drawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2019\/09\/go-where-youre-drawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Where You&#8217;re Drawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One finds this admonition regularly in texts from Thoreau to Dr. Suess, and for the creative person, there&#39;s never a bad time to come across a reminder \u2013 this time from filmmaker Martin Scorcese:<\/p>\n<p><em>You have to find your own way. There are no manuals, no shortcuts, no secrets. You write your own manual, develop your own shortcuts, find your own secrets. You go where you\u2019re drawn to go, and you learn by doing the work.<\/em><br \/><em>I mean, if you\u2019re scared, if it all seems too daunting, if the machinery of it all seems too big and scary and overwhelming\u2014that\u2019s great. You wake up in the morning and you do it anyway. If it seems impossible, that\u2019s even better. You do it anyway. Now it\u2019s time to get to work.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/filmmakerfreedom.com\/\">via<\/a><em>]<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0240a4ac8e07200d-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3126\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b0240a4ac8e07200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0240a4ac8e07200d-500wi.jpg\" title=\"3126\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One finds this admonition regularly in texts from Thoreau to Dr. Suess, and for the creative person, there&#39;s never a bad time to come across a reminder \u2013 this time from filmmaker Martin Scorcese: You have to find your own way. There are no manuals, no shortcuts, no secrets. You write your own manual, develop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}