{"id":9083,"date":"2021-11-27T00:25:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T04:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9083"},"modified":"2021-11-27T00:25:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T04:25:01","slug":"the-not-perfect-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9083","title":{"rendered":"The Not-Perfect Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sellers-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sellers-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sellers-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sellers-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sellers-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sellers-1-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Sellers-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your book&#8217;s going to have many flaws &#8212; just like you.  And me.  Good intentions and bad habits, brilliant days and sucky weeks, all swirled together.  Isn&#8217;t it your flaws that make you <em>interesting and complicated<\/em>?  If you are waiting until everything is perfect to write the perfect book, fine.  But at least practice while you wait.  Work on a not-perfect book, on a Good Enough book, in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Heather Sellers, <em>Chapter After Chapter<\/em>, p. 129<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, November 1, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your book&#8217;s going to have many flaws &#8212; just like you. And me. Good intentions and bad habits, brilliant days and sucky weeks, all swirled together. Isn&#8217;t it your flaws that make you interesting and complicated? If you are waiting until everything is perfect to write the perfect book, fine. But at least practice while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acceptance","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9100,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083\/revisions\/9100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}