Editor's Blog — Author

Finding the End

It was far easier than the problem had once seemed difficult – impossible even.

William KenowerDecember 9, 2019William Kenower, Writing, Death, Stories, MovingComment

Interesting Paths

I become distracted by how much attention other people are getting for what they’ve made.

William KenowerDecember 6, 2019Writing, Harlan Coben, Movies, Success, JealousyComment

Nothing Lost

How many people read your book will affect certain experiences you have after you finished the story, but it will not change your relationship to that story.

William KenowerDecember 4, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Stories, ChildrenComment

Trustworthy Stories

I forget sometimes I’m a storyteller, and start believing I’m a character stuck in some horrible play filled with bullies and dullards.

William KenowerDecember 2, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Stories, spiritualityComment

Regifting

To give the gift of a story I had to receive it first.

William KenowerNovember 29, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Stories, Gifts, SpiritualityComment

A Human Experience

I was accustomed to loving books written by people I wouldn’t or, in many cases, couldn’t meet.

William KenowerNovember 25, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Alice Hoffman, EqualityComment

Terrible Monsters

The moment the hero grabs an axe and stands his ground, it’s not a horror story any more.

William KenowerNovember 22, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Fear, HorrorComment

The Normal Magic

Eventually you accept the cycle of creation.

William KenowerNovember 20, 2019William Kenower, Writing, Meaning, Love, Magic, SpiritualityComment

Acceptable

Love is never rejected, but the myriad forms it takes will never please everyone.

William KenowerNovember 18, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Thelonious Monk, Acceptance, Rejection, Taste, JazzComment

A Full Life

Even the most disciplined writer can find himself daydreaming of how fabulous his life might be when he gets that book done.

William KenowerNovember 15, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Books, Finishing, Meaning, SpiritualityComment

Powerful Choices

Once you see something as a choice, it’s power over you dissolves.

William KenowerNovember 13, 2019William Kenower, Writing, Despair, Fear, Choice, SpirituualityComment

Real Value

Success and failure both demand we know the source and measure of our value.

William KenowerNovember 11, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Value, Spirituality, Success, FailureComment

Enough Pens for Everyone

They were full of ink and perfectly serviceable and now they were just gone, disappeared into some domestic Bermuda Triangle.

William KenowerNovember 6, 2019William Kenower, Spirituality, Lack thinkingComment

Painful Stories

I do love stories, but I have to tell the ones I actually want to hear.

William KenowerNovember 4, 2019Writing, William kenower, Spirituuality, pain, StoriesComment

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