I love this thought so much. ♥️
Beyond writing for publication, this is a deeper reason why getting your words on the page is so important. We are all in the process of something. We all have fractures in our lives that need “kintsugi.”
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold. This illustrates that when something has suffered damage and has a history, it becomes more beautiful.
But this is also a reason why the writing rejections hurt so hard sometimes. It’s not just about a rejection on your book, it can feel like a rejection of you (and those hard seasons that hurt so much). Negative messages can become reinforced if we haven’t built emotional resilience. Or if we haven’t done the hard work of peeling back the layers of our personal stories.
We explored this thought at length in the February 2026 Fireside Chat.
This working out of your pages is a holy work. Keep moving forward. Keep building community because none of us can do this alone.
I’m cheering you on in the muck and the mess. Keep painting those broken shards with gold.
You are important and the things you’re going to discover are desperately needed. With every page, you are lighting a beacon for others — and yourself.