Editor's Blog — Author

Valuable Work

I don’t like problems, except when I’m willingly giving them my full attention. Then they become something else.

William KenowerAugust 7, 2023Comment

Doing Nothing Wears Me Out

All this resting when I wasn’t tired, sitting when I’d just as soon walk, and consuming but never creating was depleting.

William KenowerAugust 2, 2023Comment

A Dreamer's Ambition

I love ambition. It’s our attempt to see beyond what’s right in front of us, to imagine something beyond what we have and what we’ve known.

William KenowerJuly 31, 2023Comment

A Flawed Premise

Why put something in your story that doesn’t belong, that takes it in the wrong direction?

William KenowerJuly 26, 2023Comment

We Don’t Actually Care About the Future

My ambition is aimed forward, toward creating what will one day exist in the future.

William KenowerJuly 24, 2023Comment

Unreal Enemies

I could be standing peacefully beside someone who is, in their own way, in the middle of a war.

William KenowerJuly 19, 2023Comment

Come Back

Nothing is actually created when my attention leaves the present.

William KenowerJuly 17, 2023Comment

The Real and the Imagined

The more I write, the more I have come to the conclusion that the only thing real in my life is that flow I find when I’ve dropped all resistance and let the story come.

William KenowerJuly 12, 2023Comment

How To End a Nightmare

But he knew the truth. He knew that once, when he was younger, he didn’t know what the future held for him.

William KenowerJuly 10, 2023 Comments

Appreciation

If I pay attention, I’m aware that I’m applauding as much for myself as the artist.

William KenowerJuly 5, 2023Writing, William KenowerComment

Trial and Error

I must sit with a blinking cursor, feeling the desire for the next sentence, knowing I want it, but not knowing what it is.

William KenowerJuly 3, 2023Comment

Begin

Watch the stars that guide you, and don’t worry if no one else can see them.

William KenowerJune 28, 2023Comment

Generous Acceptance

By accepting what I was giving, she was acknowledging its value. In that moment, she reminded me that we were equals.

William KenowerJune 26, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Alice Hoffman, Priase, CriticismComment

The Formula

It’s a kind of deliberate daydreaming, the true portal to every writer’s genius.

William KenowerJune 21, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Comedy, Fomulas, CreativiityComment

The Perfect Life

If I had to describe my perfect life, it wouldn’t involve book sales or a house or a vacation or a relationship.

William KenowerJune 19, 2023Writing, Bill Kenower, Fearless Writing, Podcasting, Inspiraiton Comment

Seeing Yourself

I have spent plenty of time paying attention to things I would just as happily ignored, and yet I paid and paid and paid out of habit.

William KenowerJune 14, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Reading, Joe Milan Jr.Comment

Playmates

I complained about that very normalcy while living it, but it was looking pretty good to me that night.

William KenowerJune 12, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Play, MedicineComment

Just Doing It Doesn't Work

I’ve thought my office needed cleaning and organizing for a couple years, but resisted doing so. It seemed boring and overwhelming.

William KenowerJune 7, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Work, Inspiration Comment

A Lonely Road

When all my attention and focus was on a story I was telling, I felt anything but lonely.

William KenowerJune 5, 2023Writing, William Kenower, David Wagoner, Lost Comments

Engaged

I like to remind myself to translate marketing-speak like “audience engagement” into what it means to the heart.

William KenowerMay 31, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Engagement, MarketingComment