Editor's Blog — Author

How To Get There

When I write, I care about each word, and it’s the caring more than what we call craft that leads me somewhere that is as pleasing as it is surprising.

William KenowerFebruary 15, 2021Writing, William Kenower, StoriesComment

Real Stories

But before I could tell a new story, I spent several years literally reminding to myself, on the page or on long walks, that people wanted to be happy.

William KenowerFebruary 10, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Stories, Pain, SufferingComment

The First Success

If the story she chooses to tell is most natural to her, if it requires none of the effort she had come to associate with success, she may feel a bit as if she’s given up.

William KenowerFebruary 8, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Success, AcceptanceComment

Constant Collaboration

Despair is just my guidance recognizing a lie and trying, in the only language it has, to point me back to what is true.

William KenowerFebruary 3, 2021Writing, William kenower, Speaking, Ideas Comment

A Grownup Writer

Proofreading feels like a rather grownup thing to do, requiring me, as it does, to take as much responsibility for the final product as possible.

William KenowerFebruary 1, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Editing, SpiritualityComment

Running Smoothly

I come up with an idea about how to relate to someone, or write a story, or teach a workshop, and do not always notice how that idea is aging.

William KenowerJanuary 27, 2021William Kenower, Writing, IdeasComment

A New Arrival

I do change, but not without first putting up a good fight.

William KenowerJanuary 25, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Ideas, ChangeComment

Something Better

I understand now how irreplaceable that internal knowing is.

William KenowerJanuary 20, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Ideas, InspirationComment

Fantastic Hopes

I was young, and still harbored the idea that there were certain creative standards everyone on earth could agree on.

William KenowerJanuary 18, 2021Writing, William kenower, Screenwriting, TastesComment

Fertile Soil

The seed of a desire was planted, and love and attention allowed it grow.

William KenowerJanuary 13, 2021Writing, William Kenower, PatienceComment

Genuine Stories

Genuine grief can summon you to the moment as immediately as joy.

William KenowerJanuary 11, 2021Writing, Stories, William Kenower, FeelingsComment

That's Life

To be in that writing frame of mind, I can’t think about the result of my writing, of simply getting it done.

William KenowerJanuary 6, 2021Writing, William KenowerComment

Natural Talent

It’s easy to get our talent twisted up with approval and attention and admiration, a means by which those supposed rewards will be gained.

William KenowerJanuary 4, 2021William Kenower, Talent, Interviews, InterestComment

Resolved

This is perhaps the most useful function of the New Year’s resolution: acknowledging the power and inevitability of choice.

William KenowerDecember 30, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Jon Stewart, ChoicesComment

Bottomless Well

Every time I believe I have reached the end of what I need to learn about the patience required to write I am wrong.

William KenowerDecember 28, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Patience, WaitingComment

Perfectly Understandable

Easy to start slapping labels and titles and definitions on everyone I meet. Put someone in a box and you think you understand them.

William KenowerDecember 23, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Labels, GenresComment

Big Time

I didn’t want to leave the chair, in fact, because as soon as I did, I knew I’d be caught up once again in the momentum of my day.

William KenowerDecember 21, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Hollywood, Fear Comment

No Agenda

How nice when where I actually want to be isn’t where I thought I wanted to be.

William KenowerDecember 16, 2020Wriing, William Kenower, Agendas, Fear, CreativityComment

Life's Core

I didn’t want to spend my days fretting about life’s pins and paperclips, its due dates and bottom lines.

William KenowerDecember 14, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Author, EgoComment

Trustworthy Mystery

I believe stories find the people who need them when they need them.

William KenowerDecember 9, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Reading, MysteryComment