Writing — Editor's Blog

The Dictator

It is a little disorienting to enter the dream of the story I am telling and feel that it is enough.

William KenowerSeptember 11, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Freedom, DictatorComment

The Hole

The only way to get out of The Hole is by doing nothing.

William KenowerSeptember 9, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Despair, Doubt, SpirituualityComment

Secret Strengths

Strengths look like weaknesses when they’re misapplied.

William KenowerSeptember 6, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Strengths, performanceComment

Measurable Value

Here it is: Your value is, without exaggeration and quite literally, beyond measure.

William KenowerAugust 30, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Success, Failure, Spirituality Comment

A Life's Worth

The idea that a life is measured in the number of consecutive enlightened years is nihilistic.

William KenowerAugust 26, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Meaning, Life, Spirituality Comment

Something to Love

Just loving something seems so impractical. I cannot see the absolutely clear line between love and my own survival, between love and those numbers in my bank account.

William KenowerAugust 23, 2019Love, William Kenower, Writing, Spirituality Comments

Red Monday

The truth of human experience is that everything feels like something.

William KenowerAugust 21, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Stories, Feelings, SpiritualityComment

Stage Presence

Performance demands you be in the present moment.

William KenowerAugust 16, 2019William Kenower, Writing, Stage Presence Comment

Choosing Our Games

Making money is a lot like a game we are all made to play.

William KenowerAugust 5, 2019William Kenower, Writing, money, Games, SuccessComment

Good Enough

If I was relaxed, curious, and trusting, not only did good stuff come to me, but I could confidently tell if I was starting to stray off course.

William KenowerAugust 2, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Rewriting, Trust, FearComment

Making Time

Time has never actually existed, but happiness and unhappiness have. In fact, they are all we really know.

William KenowerJuly 29, 2019Writing, Time, William Kenower, Happiness Comments

Giving Shape

If we are honest, every writer, whether a life-coach or poet, must acknowledge that what they are shaping is not theirs.

William KenowerJuly 26, 2019William Kenower, inspiration, spirituality, Writing Comments

Realists

Learn in your work to see through your pain, to see beyond the veil of suffering.

William KenowerJuly 24, 2019Writing, Reality, perception, suffering, William KenowerComment

New Assignments

Your assignment won’t come from you, but it will come to you.

William KenowerJuly 17, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Creativity, SpiritualityComment

Against The Sky

The ease of life is not so simple to believe.

William KenowerJuly 15, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Fatherhood, autism, spiritualityComment

Self Recognition

I felt like I’d been waiting two decades to hear exactly those words from exactly this sort of person, and as nice as it was to hear, it meant strangely little to me.

William KenowerJuly 12, 2019Writing, William Kenower, RecognitionComment

Your Invitiation

You are an equal part of the whole, neither separate from, nor greater than, nor lesser than.

William KenowerJuly 10, 2019Writing, Value, William Kenower, Equality, SpiritualityComment

Return to the Well

Live in the world you already know. That world is you.

William KenowerJuly 1, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Evidence, Stories, SpiritualityComment

True Reflection

The space between the cultivated details of every story serves as a kind of mirror.

William KenowerJune 26, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Spirituality, Past, StoriesComment

Hardly Working

To write a story I love to write, or work a job I love to work, or be with a person I love, is to find the current of my passion and follow it where it is already running.

William KenowerJune 24, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Love, SpiritualityComment