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Natural Expectations

It is only our requirements of time, our impatient fear, that will disappoint.

William KenowerJune 21, 2021William Kenower, Writing, Fear, ExpectationsComment

Attractive Gems

Skill and craft are very helpful, but they are nothing without that gem of an idea that needs translating.

William KenowerJune 16, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Craft, Skill, Inspiration, MusicComment

What You Cannot Give

You cannot be heard if you don’t hear yourself, and you cannot be seen if you don’t see yourself.

William KenowerJune 14, 2021Writing, William Kenower, George Lucas, Star Wars, Fans, VoiceComment

Beautiful Light

My job as a writer, as a teacher, as a person, is not to be better than I am, but to be more of who I am.

William KenowerJune 9, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Light, BeautyComment

The Great Complicator

To write a story often gives one the opportunity to choose between doubt and confidence a dozen times in one morning.

William KenowerJune 7, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Doubt, ConfidenceComment

Belief

I had allowed the concept of belief to drift into the airy realm of superstition and desperation.

William KenowerJune 2, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Belief, DoubtComment

Mine And Yours

I may have started this conversation, but I’ve become just another enthusiastic participant.

William KenowerMay 26, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Stories, Publishing, SharingComment

Searching For Something Where It Isn't

How easy it is to look for my confidence and my value in what I see.

William KenowerMay 24, 2021Writing, William Kenower, ConfidenceComment

Two Stories

I cannot write two stories at once, any more than I can listen to a friend and make tomorrow’s shopping list.

William KenowerMay 19, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Stories, ListeningComment

Everyday Courage

Courage is not such a complicated thing. It is what arrives the moment I stop trying to be anything other than what I am.

William KenowerMay 17, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Stories, courageComment

Active Waiting

The more comfortable I have become with writing’s necessary waiting, the more I have to come to see these moments as the most important part of writing.

William KenowerMay 12, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Waiting, SpiritualityComment

Never Disappointing

When I get to the end of a story, I am most pleased when that story feels like something I followed and found, not something I made.

William KenowerMay 10, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Results, StoriesComment

Your Best

Someone somewhere will be influenced by your story. It’s inevitable.

William KenowerMay 5, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Martha Beck, Stories, CultureComment

Art and Commerce

There is nothing more painful than not acknowledging that I love what I love.

William KenowerMay 3, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Marketing, Love, PromotionComment

In Service

The story is wiser than I am, knows more than I do.

William KenowerApril 28, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Stories, ServiceComment

Plenty

I cannot believe that some stories are better than other stories, or that some writers are better than other writers.

William KenowerApril 26, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Creativity, SpirituualityComment

Practice Believing

It wasn’t that these students didn’t know how to write a story, it was that they didn’t know they knew how to write a story.

William KenowerApril 21, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Belief, CraftComment

Exercising Your Writing Muscle

The writing muscle is a seeing muscle that can’t be seen.

William KenowerApril 19, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Exercise, Talent, LoveComment

The Prize

The award was my proof, the three-dimensional evidence to which I could point if some odious doubter questions my stories’ worth.

William KenowerApril 14, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Awards, SuccessComment

Cooperative Nature

You can try to confine yourself in a silent cell, safe from winds of other people’s pleasure, but you cannot keep yourself from growing.

William KenowerApril 12, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Publishing, CooperationComment