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Done is better than perfect

2/10/2016

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I have Facebook to thank for a neat and tidy motto: Done is better than perfect.  I’ve practiced this philosophy for years.  I regularly tell people to strive for “B” work because you can get so much more done in your life--with more joy and ease--if you let go of it being perfect.

However, at this particular moment I’m having a hard time believing this philosophy.  I just turned in my ‘done but not perfect’ manuscript for my second novel, Living Right, and I feel a little nauseated. I think I’m ready for it to be in the world.  I really don’t have any changes to make. But could I have done more to make it a better story? I’m afraid that I and all the editors are missing something obvious.  I know it’s not a perfect story, but is it good enough?!

I turned it in, so obviously I’ve decided that it is. I will just have to accept the fact that the leap of faith that goes with putting art into the world is going to make my stomach drop.
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    Laila Ibrahim is a passionate author set out to write stories of love's ability to transcend human-made systems of oppression.

     Living Right goes beyond the headlines to reveal the life and death stakes when a devoted mother struggles to reconcile her evangelical Christian beliefs with her son’s sexual orientation.

    Set in the antebellum South, Yellow Crocus is a rich, evocative tale of love, loss and redemption between an enslaved black woman, her privileged white charge, and their fight for freedom.

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