Hey Writing Twitter 👋 We have some exciting news!

In January, our community will embark on a five week experience called The Art of Modern Writing. And for the first time in Foster’s history YOU are invited :) If you want to deepen your writing practice alongside a vibrant group, incorporate the newest and most powerful tools into your workflow, explore co-writing and collaboration, and/or publish higher quality work more frequently, join us!

APPLY HERE: foster.co/aomw

✨ Some News ✨

Compound is now Foster! Our new name represents our belief that great writing is fostered by collectives.

We’re building a new kind of writers room for the internet age.

100+ of us co-wrote a manifesto to explain why: Most writers work in isolation, without an editor or collaborative writing environment of any kind.

Professional editors are expensive. Friends and family mean well but rarely provide useful feedback.

@khemaridh left a promising career on Wall Street to create full-time.

We sat down with him to discuss his journey and some advice he'd give to anybody considering doing the same.

A few takeaways + quotes: 👇 1. Ship quickly and often.‍

If you are struggling to pick a niche for your writing, you are probably overthinking it.

Virtually nobody starts off with a master plan.

Here are four successful writers explaining how they actually landed on their niche: 👇 First, @JamesClear.

He writes obsessively about habits today, but that’s not where he started.

Here’s how he landed on habit formation as his area of focus:

https://twitter.com/JamesClear/status/1321918776481296384

We’ve interviewed 100+ online writers about why they write and what their biggest challenges are.

A few learnings:

[Thread] #1

The vast majority of writers do *not* write to build an audience, accelerate their career, or become internet famous.

They write because it helps them think.

Nearly every other benefit is secondary.