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Learning to Listen

I had to learn to listen on purpose, regardless of whether I was hearing something at the moment I sat down to write.

William KenowerOctober 14, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Poetry, Stories, ListeningComment

New Theory

Somewhere there were people with fast, responsive computers, but I just wasn’t one of them.

William KenowerOctober 12, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Past, TechnologyComment

Why Writers Can't Actually Fail

It easy to spin dark fantasies about your future, a science fiction dystopia where nothing you write is read.

William KenowerOctober 9, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Failure, Running, SuccessComment

No Escape

Feeling alive from the inside out was as real as life could get.

William KenowerOctober 7, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Fantasy, Reality, StoriesComment

Old Comfort

I sometimes want my creations to be more than things, to be like loved ones to comfort me in my dark hours.

William KenowerOctober 5, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Loss, Computers, CreativityComment

Worth Sharing

It’s the dreary business of staying alive that can gum-up the creative life.

William KenowerSeptember 28, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Stories, Despair, MoneyComment

Just What I Wanted

Secretly, I realized, this is what I’d always wanted: just to hear how sorry someone was for me.

William KenowerSeptember 23, 2020Writing, Complaint, William Kenower, Despair, Rejection Comments

Any Means Available

We will learn what we need to learn by any means available.

William KenowerSeptember 21, 2020William Kenower, Writing, Pink Floyd, Learning, Poetry, PhilosophyComment

Instant Gratification

The writer must remain as interested as she possibly can, no matter how long it takes that interest to turn into a story, scene, or sentence.

William KenowerSeptember 18, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Patience, LoveComment

The Math of Life

Publishing is how I share what I’ve written, and sharing things I love with other people is another way of reminding me why life is interesting and worth living.

William KenowerSeptember 16, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Meaning, Love, Money, SuccessComment

Knowing Where to Look

Here’s the thing about The Pit: there’s nothing there.

William KenowerSeptember 14, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Despair, Rejection, News Comments

Back to Normal

If you proceed too quickly, behaving as if you’re in Flow without actually being in it, you will know only the pain of resistance and forced action.

William KenowerSeptember 9, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Pain, Patience, FlowComment

An Ageless Guide

Who we actually are is more than our words and deeds, and certainly more than whatever career we’ve chosen.

William KenowerSeptember 2, 2020Writing, Willia Kenower, Age, CuriosityComment

Problem Solved

I wanted my problems, my doubts and fears, to go away completely and forever. If a problem could return, it wasn’t solved.

William KenowerAugust 31, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Ernest Hemingway, ProblemsComment

The Stranger

You did not know until meeting your friend that your life was nothing but problems.

William KenowerAugust 28, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Trouble, Problems, LoveComment

Building Inspiration

A single, surprising word can change a story’s whole direction.

William KenowerAugust 26, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Sentences, Thoughts, InspirtationComment

Inspiring Light

When I find that interesting angle on a moment I’ve lived, something wakes up in me.

William KenowerAugust 24, 2020Writing, William Kenower, InspirationComment

A Thing Made New

There’s something about a cat’s choice that feels like the unquestionable desires of nature.

William KenowerAugust 19, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Cats, ChoicesComment

Friends and Enemies

You never know when you’ll turn some corner in your mind and find yourself in creative a dead end, face to face with the shadow.

William KenowerAugust 17, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Fear, Creativity, TrustComment

Final Resting Place

I imagined adventures he hadn’t taken, enemies he hadn’t faced.

William KenowerAugust 14, 2020William Kenower, Toys, Kung Fu, DeathComment