Editor's Blog — Author

Special Recognition

I needed to understand where the challenges of being human overlapped with the challenges of writing.

William KenowerJune 29, 2020Writing, Success, William Kenower, SpecialComment

Kind Stories

If you knew you were just fine as you were, would you still get up before the kids to write every morning?

William KenowerJune 24, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Kindness, Criticism, AcceptanceComment

A Writer's Inspiration

Love is creation’s only companion.

William KenowerJune 22, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Inspiration, Doubt, LoveComment

Ready and Waiting

A new idea changes me a little, even if that idea is only a sentence.

William KenowerJune 17, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Publishing, Waiting, Patience, ChangeComment

Tricky Obstacles

An obstacle can look pretty damn real in my mind where only I can see it and where only I’m navigating it.

William KenowerJune 15, 2020Comment

Ever Changing

If I want change and growth in my life, then I absolutely must look for it in every corner of my experience.

William KenowerJune 10, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Change, Progress, BeliefComment

Where It Comes From

If I doubt there are any ideas worth sharing, I’ll get none.

William KenowerJune 8, 2020Writing, Ideas, Doubt, TrustComment

No Coincidence

I thought something and then it happened.

William KenowerJune 3, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Publishing, Coincidence, ConnectionComment

A Very Different Place

I feel as though I’ve spent my life trying to describe that space where writing begins, for without it, no story would ever be told, no song ever composed.

William KenowerJune 1, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Travel, Description, SpiritualityComment

Desirable Genie

The force and velocity of that desire had focused his attention so completely that what we call craft arrived to serve it.

William KenowerMay 29, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Ken Burns, Craft, PassionComment

The Secret Formula

Our greatest challenge is to allow what’s within us to find its form.

William KenowerMay 27, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Success, ValueComment

A Simple Mind

I’m not my ideas, nor all the knowledge I’ve accumulated.

William KenowerMay 25, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Mindfulness, ThinkingComment

Real Genius: Indulge Your Curiosity

What we call genius is an expression of our curiosity indulged.

William KenowerMay 22, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Genius, CuriosityComment

Teach the Children

Something in me snapped.

William KenowerMay 20, 2020Writing, Teaching, William Kenower, Learning, CriticismComment

Won't Quit

You know you can’t actually quit what’s right for you.

William KenowerMay 18, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Rejection, QuittingComment

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