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Whole Stories

It’s hard to write stories that contradict your own life.

William KenowerMay 13, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Heartbreak, Stories, LoveComment

The Critic Speaks

We were all glad to be rid of him, but I sensed he had sucked the life out of that theater

William KenowerMay 11, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Pink Floyd, CriticsComment

All Is Well

It is the pain of doubting that tells me I needn’t doubt.

William KenowerMay 8, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Discovery, Suffering, StoriesComment

Inner Reality

As writers, we get lost when we forget where to look for our stories.

William KenowerMay 6, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Stories, FearComment

Already There

I cannot see my own path, and this feeling of not knowing, of doubting such a path even exists, leads me to look to other people who seem certain of their life.

William KenowerMay 4, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Self, SpiritualityComment

Day After Day

My mind was free to remember other things that lay far beneath the noise of a useless calendar.

William KenowerMay 1, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Calendars, FearComment

Crafted Reminders

The ideas that come to us that need crafting do not belong to us anymore the than draft day hopes belong to camera operators.

William KenowerApril 29, 2020William kenower, Writing, Craft, Football, DraftComment

Forgetting What You Have

I’d known it so naturally and intuitively, that I didn’t even know I knew it.

William KenowerApril 27, 2020Writing, Stories, Teaching, Time, William KenowerComment

All You Need to Know

An idea arrived that interested the artist and their only ambition was to complete that idea.

William KenowerApril 22, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Music, Paul McCartney, The BeatlesComment

Known Connection

How long are you allowed not to know before you think not knowing is a problem?

William KenowerApril 20, 2020Writing, Stories, William Kenower, Ideas, InspirationComment

Not Normal

It is not my job, nor anyone’s job, to belong anywhere.

William KenowerApril 17, 2020William kenower, Writing, Normal, Acceptance, ParentingComment

Going for the Ride

I have wondered how many of the threats I’ve feared in my life were like those roller coasters.

William KenowerApril 15, 2020William Kenower, Writing, Fear, Joy, MeaningComment

Change in the Time of Corona

Sometimes it is the circumstances thrust upon on us to that compel us to grow.

William KenowerApril 13, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Book tours, Plague, Corona Virus, ChangeComment

Describing Shadows

Shadows may come in a variety of sizes and shapes, but they all share the same impermanence.

William KenowerApril 10, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Stories, Shadow, Happiness, Feelings Comment

Story of Your Life

All you know about your readers is that they’re human.

William KenowerApril 8, 2020Writing, Stories, Life, FishingComment

Always There

I was amazed how magically unknowable I’d made music composition.

William KenowerApril 6, 2020writing, William Kenower, music, learning, creativityComment

Helpful Rejection

I understood how hard it was to see that she had helped him, tainted as this help seemed by rejection.

William KenowerApril 3, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Publication, Rejection, HelpComment

One Enemy

Who could have predicted that this simple transference from thought to page would have the power to summon the same host of woes as the front page of any newspaper?

William KenowerApril 1, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Problem, SpiritualityComment

Helpers

I don’t feel like I really know something until I’ve written it, until I can share it.

William KenowerMarch 30, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Help, TeachingComment

Learning to Listen

I sometimes feel as if my entire writing life has been one long practice in learning the difference between the one voice and the other.

William KenowerMarch 27, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Doubt, Inspiration, ListeningComment