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My inner-critic is what I sound like when I believe I have to do something to please someone else.

William KenowerApril 25, 2022William Kenower, Music, Writing, CriticismComment

The Two Weights

How useful misery can be when it reminds me of what I’d forgotten

William KenowerApril 20, 2022Writing, Music, Guitars, Criticism, PraiseComment

The One Responsible

So much of writing is believing you have everything you need, that you’re perfectly equipped to tell the story you must want to tell.

William KenowerApril 18, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Advice, Stories Comment

Valuable Stillness

My true creativity reacts to nothing, but is an expansion of an idea already in motion.

William KenowerApril 13, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Stillness, MusicComment

McGuffins

Believe you really need something, anything, and your life seems to hang in the balance.

William KenowerApril 11, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Tolkien, McGuffin, ValueComment

Stay Grateful

Writing itself is a bit of an out of body experience.

William KenowerApril 6, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Natashia Deon, InspirationComment

Everyone's Story

No one can know our story as we do.

William KenowerApril 4, 2022Writing, Stories, Memoir, Will Smith, Chris RockComment

The Explorer

The scene that had felt so alive the day before seemed dead to me today.

William KenowerMarch 30, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Exploration, MeaningComment

No Question

If you are a writer, do not ask a question unless you are curious about the answer.

William KenowerMarch 28, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Learning, Questions, CuriosityComment

The First Choice

Every tree was once a seed and every story was once an interesting idea.

William KenowerMarch 23, 2022Writing, William Kenower, ChoiceComment

Timing

Something was odd. There was only one other car, which was driving at that moment up the onramp and into the ferry.

William KenowerMarch 21, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Timing, LuckComment

Perfect

Theoretically, there was a correct – a perfect – number of grounds to make the best brew.

William KenowerMarch 16, 2022Writing, Success, William Kenower, PerfectionComment

Just Like Me

This journey has helped me understand other people like nothing else.

William KenowerMarch 14, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Marc Maron, SuccessComment

Going Home

Home is both the destination, the place of rest and resolve, and also the source of all creation.

William KenowerMarch 9, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Music, Music Theory Comment

Your Transparent Self

I enjoy public speaking, but only if I remember that to do so, I must become transparent.

William KenowerMarch 7, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Speaking, FearComment

A Good Expert

The most important things I’ve learned were taught to me from what can only be described as failure.

William KenowerMarch 2, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Expertise, Experienc, FailureComment

Unerring Destination

When I reach the end of a sentence and don’t know what should come next, I must be willing to sit comfortably with the feeling of what should follow without yet knowing what it will be.

William KenowerFebruary 28, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Future, FearComment

Clever Cannibalism

How resourceful the imagination is, and how undaunted by something as trivial as factual truth.

William KenowerFebruary 23, 2022Writing, William Kenower, James Dean, Memory, MemoirComment

The Greatest Tool

All the chords in the world won’t put a song in your heart, and all the nifty writing craft won’t give you a story.

William KenowerFebruary 21, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Music, CraftComment

Good Teachers

If a cat knows anything, it’s how to be relaxed and focus on the present moment, the very place where all writing occurs.

William KenowerFebruary 14, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Greame Simsion, Cory Doctorow, Kittens Comment