Editor's Blog — Author

Where The Story Starts

Complaints are many a story’s beginning, but never its end.

William KenowerJanuary 4, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Complaints, StoriesComment

The Lightness of Stories

The tension of conflict has no real value unless it’s eventually followed by the release of resolution.

William KenowerJanuary 2, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Stories, The Beatles Comments

Learning From What We Already Know

It is hard to believe sometimes that from something so small as an interesting idea can grow something so big as a book or a career.

William KenowerDecember 28, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Learning, KnowledgeComment

The First Solution

It is the moment I breathe for the first time that I appreciate what I otherwise do every moment of every day.

William KenowerDecember 26, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Stories, Suffering, SuccessComment

Acceptable Writers

If I’m disciplined, there’s a pleasure in recognizing what I want to change, like seeing a part of myself I’ve not acknowledged.

William KenowerDecember 19, 2022Writing, William Kenower, AcceptanceComment

Not Complicated

Whenever I try to travel back in time and rewrite the choices I made I can feel how unnatural it would have been for me.

William KenowerDecember 14, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Music, LearningComment

Evolving Questions

I don’t want to tell the same story twice, and the page is so utterly blank, and, most importantly, I am not quite the same person I was yesterday.

William KenowerDecember 12, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Evolution, Dungeons and DragonsComment

A Little Control

We don’t really choose our stories; they always choose us.

William KenowerDecember 7, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Control, FearComment

Correct Intention

I told myself it didn’t matter how long it took to write it, that it didn’t matter if I never finished it, I would not write it to try to please her.

William KenowerDecember 5, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Intention, SuccessComment

Generous Writing

When I write what I want to read, it means I’m giving to others what I wish to receive.

William KenowerNovember 30, 2022Writing, William Kenower, GenerosityComment

Quitting

If weren’t allowed to quit, then we would stay bound to whatever project or idea first came to us.

William KenowerNovember 28, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Creativity, Quitting Comments

Good Evidence

Eventually every creative person must accept that they were never actually waiting for anyone’s approval or recognition.

William KenowerNovember 21, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Evidence, AcceptanceComment

Unpredictable

There it is, the thing you didn’t know but knew you’d like when you saw it.

William KenowerNovember 16, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Elections, Poetry, SurprisesComment

A Big Deal

I used to think it would be a good idea if everyone liked what I liked.

William KenowerNovember 14, 2022Writing, William Kenower, T. S. Eliot, Poetry Comment

A Reason To Live

I know firsthand how easy it is to lose sight of why we’re actually here.

William KenowerNovember 9, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Stoires, Stories Comment

A Meaningful Choice

Every time I chose a word that fit as effortlessly as a puzzle piece into a sentence, I felt the necessity and resonance of my choices within myself.

William KenowerNovember 7, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Voting, ChoicesComment

Careful Conversations

I certainly like things that are easy, but I also like a friendly world, and that sometimes requires me to take care.

William KenowerNovember 2, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Conversation, Friends, Thought, Rejection, AcceptanceComment

Beneath the Surface

If no one else can see it, read it, or hear it, is it even real?

William KenowerOctober 31, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Success, Imagination Comment

Friendly Stories

A story needs an author and an audience, and each of us were both that evening.

William KenowerOctober 26, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Stories, FriendshipComment

Good Training

I saw no connection between what I was doing and what I was thinking.

William KenowerOctober 24, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Running, William FaulknerComment