Tomorrow: Let’s write it out together
Join our first-ever public Authoring Circle
TL;DR - Foster is hosting our first-ever public Authoring Circle on Thurs, 11/16, at 12 pm ET. It’s free and you’re invited! Register here.
Here in the northern hemisphere the days are getting shorter, the nights are getting colder, and the writers of the Foster collective are hitting their stride when it comes to producing new work!
Maybe it’s the season, maybe it’s the intense vibes of late 2023, and maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with our Authoring Circles.
These free, weekly gatherings are part motivation, part commiseration, and all affirmation of the power of transmuting our thoughts into words.
Our first-ever public Authoring Circle is happening tomorrow on Zoom from 12-1:30 pm ET.
Will you come write with us? Register here.
Notes from the Fosterverse
Like we said, our writers? They are on fire. Here’s a sampling of work published recently.
On Retreat by
/Irene K.“Distance is the silent observer, the sage that helps offer the clarity that proximity sometimes cannot.”
Three Ways to Make Our Lives Meaningful by Patrick Kielly
“If we bravely accept the suffering of our lives and make sacrifices to improve ourselves and our surroundings, hardships become triumphs. We may even cherish our sufferings because they represent our ability to withstand challenges.”
“I met every species of pillow in my nomadic year. Soft, pliable ones that sank the moment my head accepted their invitation. Tough, rigid headrests that resisted the weight of my skull. Long body pillows that looked weird but protected my spine. Squishy playthings that dissolved in my hands like Play Doh.Wherever I went in the wild, pillows lived in colonies alongside bedsheets—almost as if each species was symbiotic to the other.”
“It is hard to come to terms with the fact that life remains unpredictable. You never know the people who will enter your life, the ideas that will take root or the opportunities that will grace you. So how truly prepared can you be? How can you know exactly what you will need until you arrive?”
STAY BLESSED by
/Esther Patrizia“Back in my hotel days one of the dishwashers, an older Brazilian dude with a matted mop of dark hair and the greatest DGAF disposition of all time, remarked to me once as I was flitting around the cavernous basement kitchen — you’re a bomb, you know that?”
Let us know if you have any questions about Authoring Circles or tomorrow’s public session in the comments.
See you there!
I'm a newborn Fosterite, so this question arises out of innocent ignorance: here in Foster, what does it mean to "co-author?"