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Exhale

Publishing, however you do it, is how you really finish something.

William KenowerFebruary 26, 2025WritingComment

Time In The Desert

On the other side of forgiveness is always appreciation of the very thing I resented and resisted and devalued.

William KenowerFebruary 19, 2025Writing Comment

I Don't Know

Artists, and writers in particular, spend every day asking questions to which they don’t have an answer.

William KenowerFebruary 12, 2025Writing Comments

The First Success

All our accomplishments are really bi-products of the first success, the one that comes before all the acceptance letters and reviews and bookstore appearances.

William KenowerFebruary 5, 2025Writing Comment

Hallelujah

What is the “miracle of creation” other than inviting through us something that hadn’t been before?

William KenowerJanuary 29, 2025Writing Comments

Follow The Leader

It doesn’t matter how big the world is and how long it’s been spinning, you are unique upon it, and your story is the first of its kind.

William KenowerJanuary 22, 2025Writing Comments

The Math of Love

The good I’ve known, like my breath, is meant to go out.

William KenowerJanuary 14, 2025WritingComment

Free Roaming

The greatest pleasure I’ve known in my life is the fulfillment of my unique creative desire.

William KenowerJanuary 8, 2025Writing Comment

Creative Nature

The only loneliness I’ve known is when I’ve tried to create without the flow.

William KenowerJanuary 1, 2025WritingComment

A Common Puzzle

The more I think about my stories, the more I try to understand them, the less sense they make.

William KenowerDecember 18, 2024WritingComment

Enjoy The View

Pleasing me, it turns out, is no one’s job but mine.

William KenowerDecember 11, 2024WritingComment

A Life of Rest

There’s something within you that can’t quit.

William KenowerDecember 4, 2024WritingComment

Powerless

The sitting and the staring and the typing all feel the same.

William KenowerNovember 27, 2024Writing Comments

The Only Way Out

I’d received plenty of bad news in my life. Sometimes the news came from my agent, sometimes from a doctor, sometimes from a girlfriend.

William KenowerNovember 14, 2024 Comments

The Popes are in the Pool

I think everyone wants to be entertained, and everyone also wants to know why life is worth living.

William KenowerNovember 7, 2024WritingComment

Somebody

There was something holy to me about the raised proscenium and the rows of chairs and the lights above.

William KenowerOctober 30, 2024Writing Comment

Stepping Back

Writing is a way of stepping back from our thoughts and beliefs and experiences so that we can see them accurately.

William KenowerOctober 23, 2024Writing Comment

Satisfying Perception

Don’t write from fear; it’s a shallow source of motivation.

William KenowerOctober 16, 2024WRitingComment

Perfectly Equipped

My main job when teaching is to remind my students that they are perfectly equipped to tell any story the want to tell.

William KenowerOctober 9, 2024WritingComment

The Real You

That guy taking care of stuff, the domestic Bill, the busy Bill – I don’t think of him as the real me anymore.

William KenowerOctober 2, 2024WritingComment