{"id":19786,"date":"2015-08-18T09:24:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=19786"},"modified":"2015-08-18T09:24:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:24:37","slug":"eight-things-i-relearned-editing-travel-anonymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/18\/eight-things-i-relearned-editing-travel-anonymous\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Things I (Re)Learned Editing Travel Anonymous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sometimes having no <a href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/travel-anonymous-lessons-learned-again\/\">limitations<\/a> is the hardest obstruction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To paraphrase the late novelist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E._L._Doctorow\">E.L. Doctorow<\/a>., &#8220;[Making a movie] is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights but you can make the whole trip that way.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In other words, the only way out is <em>through<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s hard to be spontaneous if you&#8217;re clinging to the some vague notion that what you&#8217;re doing is wrong. If you let yourself fail extravagantly, you might succeed beyond expectation. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;The first draft of anything is shit.&#8221; &#8211; Ernest Hemingway<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The unconscious mind loves to work out problems. You may feel doubt and uncertainty but your brain is busy untying knots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Write down insights and ideas immediately. You&#8217;ll forget them otherwise. Seriously, you will. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The simple answer comes last, after you&#8217;ve worked your way through all the rest. It&#8217;s like sculpting: you only see the shape once you&#8217;ve removed the excess.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/publication\/travel-anonymous\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19728\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/blog-travel-anonymous-1920-poster.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/blog-travel-anonymous-1920-poster.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/blog-travel-anonymous-1920-poster-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/publication\/travel-anonymous\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13120\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/watch-button1.gif\" width=\"105\" height=\"24\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes having no limitations is the hardest obstruction. * To paraphrase the late novelist E.L. Doctorow., &#8220;[Making a movie] is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights but you can make the whole trip that way.&#8221; * In other words, the only way out is through. 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