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Useful Frames

Sometimes it’s hard to finish just because you must accept you won’t have that friend of a story to spend time with anymore.

William KenowerDecember 20, 2021William Kenower, Writing, Stories, EndingsComment

Timely Stories

The storyteller reduces reality to a few manageable bits

William KenowerDecember 15, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Stories, TimeComment

Transmissible

Artists often do not know how what we made affects the people with whom we share it.

William KenowerDecember 13, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Madonna, Farhad Dadydujor, Taste, LoveComment

Simple Story

Writing becomes complicated when we are doing more than just finding the next satisfying sentence.

William KenowerDecember 8, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Stories, SimplicityComment

A Good Year

If you’ve been drinking cheap wine and then you get a great bottle, you understand how cheap the cheap stuff actually tastes.

William KenowerDecember 6, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Wine, Fear, Yan Martel, Yann MartelComment

Dreaming Big: When Your Imagination Meets Reality

My imagination is limitless, but it remains incapable of predicting the future.

William KenowerDecember 1, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Dreams, ImaginationComment

Useful Passions

I would rather be passionate about something and only feel comfortable talking about that than not be deeply interested in anything at all.

William KenowerNovember 29, 2021Writing, Nerds, Passions, Dungeons and Dragons Comments

Not Crazy

Life is more of an ongoing work of art than is often acknowledged.

William KenowerNovember 24, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Chidlren, opinionComment

Discovering Experience

Everything, even what we think of as success, is still just an experience.

William KenowerNovember 22, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Experience, SuccessComment

Pretending

As a writer, I establish a story’s reality at the outset as a kind of agreement with my reader.

William KenowerNovember 17, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Imagination, StoriesComment

A New Friend

As someone who has spent all of his life practicing all kinds of things, I’ve had to accept there is actually no perfecting anything.

William KenowerNovember 15, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Success, Failure, PracticeComment

Unending Story

I simply misunderstood the true source of what we call reality.

William KenowerNovember 10, 2021Writing, Stories, William Kenower, ImaginationComment

The Stream of Life

Unlike my heart, my creativity requires my attention to function properly.

William KenowerNovember 8, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Creativity, CuriosityComment

Real Pleasure

I spent many years more or less overlooking my lived experiences when dreaming my future, as if I would be a different person once this or that happened.

William KenowerNovember 3, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Dungeons and Dragons, Games, Fun, SuccessComment

Accepting Reality

Pessimism is entirely about the future. It is never about the present

William KenowerNovember 1, 2021William Kenower, Writing, Optimism, Pessimism, AcceptanceComment

What I Left Out

I knew that there was something with which I was used to being in constant communication that was harder to hear while in the company of other people.

William KenowerOctober 27, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Childhood, Solitude, StoriesComment

Motivated Characters

The same guidance system that helps me find the right word and the right story and the right life keeps speaking to me in whatever language I’m willing to hear.

William KenowerOctober 25, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Motivation Comments