Celebrating Long-Form Writing
Fosterverse Weekly #23
Hey Writers!
There’s no one right way to share your words to others. As I’ve written about here before, at Foster we care more about expression versus publishing. And that expression can be something as simple as a text or letter to a friend, or even a single-sentence tweet.
That being said, I want to take a moment to highlight a handful of Foster writers who have been steadily publishing long-form serialized books. Writing a book is a daunting task, one I’ve started and stopped often, so their dedication to seeing the process through should be celebrated.
I encourage you to check out one or more of the serialized works below and give the authors some love! In each case, I’ve linked to the first part of their books.
Incredible by
A Slice of Orange, A Pinch of Sky by
Enjoy!
Lyle
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⚡️ Published
Finding Certainty in Uncertainty by
The green vine gently snaking up the rust-colored bricks. by
I'd Never Seen My Mother so Enraged by
The Blasphemy of Hope by
There Is No Wildness In "The Wild Robot" by
A Conversation with Publishing Maverick Ellen Fishbein by
All Day I Dream About Substack (ADIDAS) by
On Surrender, Sacred Emptiness, and Love: A Birthday Reflection by
🔥 Inspiration
Glad to see longform work celebrated. I have not written an essay over 4,000 words since I started my Substack, even though my initial goal was for the weekly output to seed my "real" writing. I'm starting to think that I need to wrestle those priorities back into alignment, to think of a larger container for the weekly writing, so that it adds up to something more coherent.
Serialization is an interesting paradox, because it tries to leverage the fragment in service of the whole. I like a print book because I can read longer chunks of it than I'm able to manage at a screen. But perhaps serialization is just the early stage of that more permanent form.
Ooooh, some others to read! Thanks for the mention!