What really matters

I know that here at Bookish Edits I speak to the writer in you. I want to validate that piece of you that has always wanted to write but has never known where to start. I want to give you tools and support you need to write the story you’re meant to write right now.

But my message is more than that.

More than providing tools and support, I want to speak to who you are, where you are right now.

Maybe you know deep down that now is not the time for you to write.

Maybe you’re living out your story right now and know that you won’t be ready to write it for some time.

Maybe you won’t ever want to write your story because it’s too sacred and tender (or because you just don’t want to write, period).

The writing isn’t what matters to me.

It truly doesn’t.

What matters to me—not as a writer or editor, but as a human—is that you know that your story, however, whenever, or whether you choose to share it, matters.

You don’t have to have a story that is dramatic and heartbreaking to have a story that matters.

You don’t have to have a life rife with trauma or blinding success to have a story that matters.

You are what makes your story matter.

You are why your story matters.

You have value simply because you’re here.

So if you take anything away from your time here, I want it to be this.

Your story matters because you matter.

Your story doesn’t have to be written or published for it to have value.

You and your story matter simply for existing—and that’s enough.