Editor's Blog — Author

Away From The Mirror

It’s not the people in the crowd who laugh at your jokes that help you relax, it’s the ones who don’t.

William KenowerAugust 30, 2021Writing, William Kenower, AppearanceComment

The Scoreboard

I saw the arts as a refuge from the endless game of which life sometimes seemed made.

William KenowerAugust 25, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Winning, Losing, Success, FailureComment

Keep Looking

A writer discovers a story that lives unseen and untold within her.

William KenowerAugust 23, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Stories, DragonsComment

Dependable Magic

I have no clue where ideas really come from. All I know is what I must do in order for those ideas to arrive.

William KenowerAugust 18, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Technology, Ideas, InspirationComment

Not The End

Grief is never the end. It can’t be.

William KenowerAugust 16, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Stories, Death, TaxiComment

Where The Stories Are

The first thing I must do is forget about the world around me, forget what I sometimes think I am.

William KenowerAugust 11, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Cats, Death, Stories, Spirituality Comments

Striking Oil

It wasn’t even the idea itself I cared about, just its arrival.

William KenowerAugust 9, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Creativity, Stories, InspiraitonComment

What You Have

It’s a mistake to believe that what you need to write your story exists outside of you.

William KenowerAugust 4, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Reading, Stories, Personal EssayComment

A Friendly Deception

I will tend to fall back on things I’ve known and trusted in the past to find what I’m looking for.

William KenowerAugust 2, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Teaching, MarketingComment

The Saint Within

Every story ever told grows from the same fertile thought: Life matters.

William KenowerJuly 28, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Reading, SaintsComment

It's All Fiction

All of my past as I have come to know it is a fiction, by which I mean not the whole truth.

William KenowerJuly 26, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Claire Dederer, Fiction, Memoir Comment

Instant Creation

If I don’t believe I have the same power to create anything in my life the way I have the power to write any story on a blank page, I will sometimes tell myself I don’t know what I want.

William KenowerJuly 21, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Creation, DoubtComment

The Starting Point

The enduring, lifelong challenge, is to remember that what I truly have is always enough.

William KenowerJuly 19, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Creativity, SpiritualityComment

Time To Create

Time will wait until I am done doubting and grieving to resume its work.

William KenowerJuly 14, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Spirituuality, Self-doubtComment

Just What You Want

A lesson in getting what you wish for.

William KenowerJuly 12, 2021Writing, Publicaiton, William Kenower, GenreComment

The Way to Do It

You can hire someone for anything that you want done more than want to do.

William KenowerJuly 7, 2021William Kenower, Writing, Spirituality, SuccessComment

The Path Ahead

I must abandon the unattainable dream of the perfect story, and instead turn my attention to the path ahead.

William KenowerJuly 5, 2021Writing, William Kenwoer, Robert Dugoni, Stories, PNWAComment

Unworkable Ideas

If there’s something in my life I don’t want, it didn’t arrive by accident.

William KenowerJune 30, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Ideas, Thomas EdisonComment

Magical Talent

I can learn how to do pretty much anything well enough, but I can’t manufacture the desire necessary to master something.

William KenowerJune 28, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Talent, Magic, MasteryComment

When The Fire Dies

The heat of fear and despair consumes and turns to ash any old, dry thought I might seek to soothe my mind.

William KenowerJune 23, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Fear, Ideas, ThoughtComment