Editor's Blog — Author

There’s a lot of people in my life whom I love and who love me. I don’t write for them.

William KenowerJanuary 23, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Spirituality, FriendshipComment

Disposable Words

If there was only one piece of craft advice I could give a new writer, it would be that your job is to say the most in the fewest words possible.

William KenowerJanuary 21, 2019Writing, William kenower, Craft, WordsComment

All Or Nothing

Writing becomes an excellent exercise in valuing what we would otherwise abolish or condemn.

William KenowerJanuary 18, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Spirituality, Contrast, StoriesComment

Where The Story Is Told

The story is never, ever outside of us.

William KenowerJanuary 16, 2019Writing, Memoir, Stories, SpiritualityComment

Slow Down

The author is a like a lawyer, his readers the jury, and his details the evidence.

William KenowerJanuary 14, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Craft, FeelingsComment

Friendly Conversations

Friendliness is our natural relationship to one another, what is always present if we stop worrying about whether we’re likable or interesting

William KenowerJanuary 9, 2019writing, Interviews, William Kenower, Celebrity, FriendshipComment

Nudged by Inspiration

Sometimes inspiration arrives with fireworks and cymbal crashes. More often, however, inspiration comes with no fanfare at all. I simply notice something.

William KenowerJanuary 7, 2019Writing, Spirituality, inspiration, William Kenower, John PavlovitzComment

The Real Reason Books Aren't Finished

Writing is an act of trust, not chopping wood.

William KenowerJanuary 4, 2019Writing, Imagination, Dreams, William Kenower, TrustComment

Always Original

Once you learn the kind of stories you like to tell, and once you start figuring out how to tell them, you have to keep finding why you love to tell them.

William KenowerJanuary 2, 2019Writing, Stories, William Kenower, Love, OriginalityComment

Looking In

If you’re feeling on the outside looking in, know that the only thing you can truly be outside of is your own life.

William KenowerDecember 31, 2018Writing, Lonelieness, William Kenower, SpiritualityComment

Tools For The Journey

The technology of language and story is for the external world, the world we all share, but my attention is now largely elsewhere.

William KenowerDecember 28, 2018Writing, William Kenower, Spirituality, StoriesComment

Your Job

Every time we devote ourselves to what most interests us success flows to us with less and less effort, and every time we devote ourselves to what does not interest us success comes slowly if at all.

William KenowerDecember 26, 2018Comment

Where The Fun Never Ends

I still wanted to be famous. It seemed like it would be fun.

William KenowerDecember 19, 2018Writing, William Kenower, Fun, Childhood, SpiritualityComment

Endless Dreaming

Perhaps someday I’ll learn to truly count this drifting as working, to see my daydreams as an extension of my time at the desk – but I doubt it. I still like to believe there is such a thing as time off from work.

William KenowerDecember 17, 2018Writing, Dreaming, Imagination, William Kenower, SpiritualityComment

Making The Grade

No matter how much someone loves me, they simply cannot tell me which stories to write, which relationships to pursue.

William KenowerDecember 12, 2018Writing, School, Spirituality, William KenowerComment

Writing As A Spiritual Practice

The rain is nothing; the story is everything, and you can’t touch a story.

William KenowerDecember 10, 2018Writing, Spirituality, William Kenower, StoriesComment

Here And Now

It haunted me a little the way it ended for Fitzgerald, as if writing Gatsby could have inoculated him against any disappointment.

William KenowerDecember 7, 2018Writing, Fitzgerald, time, SpiritualityComment

Golden Stories

The search for freedom can become a form of bondage in itself.

William KenowerDecember 5, 2018Writing, Stories, William Kenower, Freedom, Work, SpiritualityComment

The Best Teacher

I was determined to let experience be my only teacher. Fortunately, experience never stops teaching.

William KenowerDecember 3, 2018Writing, William Kenower, Teaching, Experience, SpiritualityComment

Good People

I don’t want my fate written in the stars any more than I want it written in my genes.

William KenowerNovember 30, 2018Writing, William Kenower, Spirituality, AstrologyComment