Editor's Blog — Author

Where You Are

We would with equal force reject our own extinction.

William KenowerMarch 22, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Equality, Fear Comment

Eternal Trust

Mine has been a lifelong practice of learning whose guidance to follow.

William KenowerMarch 17, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Trust, Craft, EgoComment

In Time

Time is a funny commodity. I have complained that I’ve had too much and not enough of it.

William KenowerMarch 15, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Time, PracticeComment

Real Dreamers

Everything we dream is real as soon as we dream it.

William KenowerMarch 10, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Dreams, SuccessComment

Little Altars

I had to take Joyce off the altar on which I’d placed him, and put life on that altar instead.

William KenowerMarch 8, 2021Writing, William Kenower, James Joyce, UlyssesComment

Acceptable Compass

I had found my compass, the internal light by which all my creative endeavors would be guided.

William KenowerMarch 3, 2021William Kenower, Writing, Guidance, Acceptance, Rejection Comments

Adventures In Marketing

I wasn’t trying to get anything. I just wanted to share something that felt good to share.

William KenowerMarch 1, 2021Writing, Poetry, William Kenower, MarketingComment

Never Wrong

Sometimes we simply have to write stories we don’t want to write to learn how to choose the right stories.

William KenowerFebruary 24, 2021Writing, William Kenower, ChoicesComment

Time In The Desert

There is nothing like living with failure to understand it can’t kill you and that success can’t save you.

William KenowerFebruary 22, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Essays, Truth Comments

Good News

The news does not cover endings, only middles.

William KenowerFebruary 17, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Stories, News, Ending, SufferingComment

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