Editor's Blog — Author

How It Should Be

All they’d know is what they liked and what they didn’t, and in this way every single poem was exactly equal.

William KenowerNovember 1, 2019William Kenower, Writing, Poetry, CriticismComment

The Voices in Our Heads

Like all good relationships, it only yields fruits worth sharing when based on love.

William KenowerOctober 30, 2019William Kenower, Writing, Michael Gruber, Stories, MadnessComment

The Birds and the Blunderbusses

For all our ceaseless dreaming, humans spend a lot of time telling one another what is impossible.

William KenowerOctober 28, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Flight, Space, Imaginination, SpirituualityComment

Target Audience

Tell a story from that part of yourself that is deeper than your age, or your gender, or your history, or your family, or your race.

William KenowerOctober 23, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Daniel James Brown, Marketing, SpirituualityComment

The Good in the World

I am convinced that most of the good we do, most of the change we help bring about, grows from seeds we forgot we ever planted

William KenowerOctober 21, 2019William Kenower, Writing, SpiritualityComment

Finding Excitement

Sometimes people marry for the same wrong reasons they start books, loving not so much the person or the idea but the safety they hope will be provided to them.

William KenowerOctober 18, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Excitement, Marriage, Spirituuality Comment

Young and Old Alike

If I wasn’t worrying about money, or publishing, or success, I didn’t really feel young or old.

William KenowerOctober 16, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Age, QueriesComment

Always Interested

Life is more interesting when I’m interested, and the more I learn about anything, the deeper into its weeds must I go to stay interested.

William KenowerOctober 14, 2019writing, Wine, William Kenower, Interest, NerdComment

A Good Day

The Muse doesn’t care about the outside world. It’s none of her business.

William KenowerOctober 11, 2019Writing, William Kenower, The Muse, SpiritualityComment

What a Writer Knows

My interest in following that road is with me from the start.

William KenowerOctober 9, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Stories, SpiritualityComment

Brilliant Light

My light never shines brighter than when I am indulging my curiosity, and I do not believe there is anything rare about curiosity.

William KenowerOctober 7, 2019William Kenower, Writing, Genius, CuriosityComment

Real Learning

It was the best possible thing you could do. It was the only thing that mattered in life.

William KenowerOctober 4, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Learning, WorkshoppingComment

The Order of Things

Do not mistake a lack of interest for a lack of capability.

William KenowerOctober 2, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Maurice Sendak, Skill, Craft, InterestComment

Everyone Out

It’s hard to pretend you’re someone you’re not, especially when you don’t realize you’re pretending.

William KenowerSeptember 30, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Armistead Maupin, IndividualityComment

Following Trouble: Why Writing is Never a Problem

The blank page of my life is always asking the same question.

William KenowerSeptember 27, 2019writing, William Kenower, stories, Problems, spiritualityComment

Story Medicine

The job of the storyteller is to hypnotize the reader into forgetting one reality and believing another one.

William KenowerSeptember 25, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Stories, FearComment

Getting What You Love

What I love is so important to me, how could another person get me if they if the stuff I turned to for inspiration and meaning was boring or made no sense to them?

William KenowerSeptember 23, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Beatles, Meaning, LoveComment

Sleeping With Rejection

It is easy to memorialize pain without realizing we are doing so.

William KenowerSeptember 20, 2019Writing, Death, William Kenower, rejection, acceptance Comments

Reliable Stories

The more I tell them, the more convinced I am that stories set in the past are not about the past at all.

William KenowerSeptember 18, 2019writing, William Kenower, Memory, Stories, SpiritualityComment

Victory Smoke

The praise I hoped to receive pleased me as long as one draw on a cigarette pleased me.

William KenowerSeptember 16, 2019Smoking, Writing, William Kenower, Attention, Love, SpiritualityComment