{"id":5442,"date":"2016-05-10T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=5442"},"modified":"2016-05-03T20:03:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T03:03:34","slug":"i-really-dont-believe-in-a-wasted-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/i-really-dont-believe-in-a-wasted-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I really don&#8217;t believe in a wasted draft.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tea-Obreht.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5443 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tea-Obreht.png\" alt=\"Tea Obreht\" width=\"156\" height=\"218\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Novelist T\u00e9a Obreht:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in a wasted draft . . . Even work you consider to be your worst is good for something. Every effort teaches you about your desires and tendencies, or guides you toward some new possibility . . . every line you wrote . . . has value.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teaobreht.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">T\u00e9a Obreht<\/a>, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tigers-Wife-Novel-T%C3%A9a-Obreht\/dp\/0385343841\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1462330557&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+tiger%27s+wife\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Tiger&#8217;s Wife<\/em><\/a>, \u00a0interviewed by Gabriel Packard, &#8220;Writers On Writing,&#8221; The Writer magazine, May 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novelist T\u00e9a Obreht: &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in a wasted draft . . . Even work you consider to be your worst is good for something. Every effort teaches you about your desires and tendencies, or guides you toward some new possibility . . . every line you wrote . . . has value.&#8221; \u2014T\u00e9a Obreht, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[926,927],"class_list":["post-5442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-tea-obreht","tag-the-tigers-wife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-1pM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5447,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions\/5447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}