Acceptance — Editor's Blog

A Kind Rejection

It’s been my experience that with just a few exceptions, everyone always agrees with me.

William KenowerApril 24, 2023Writing, Rejection, Acceptance, PublicaitonComment

Lost and Found

When you forget you’re exploring, you feel lost.

William KenowerApril 17, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Ideas, Acceptance, RejecitonComment

The First Rejection

To learn that to get what you want, you must to accept what you have.

William KenowerApril 12, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Jealousy, Acceptance, RejectionComment

The Art of Acceptance

To write my best and live my best I must be free.

William KenowerFebruary 15, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Praise, Criticism, AcceptanceComment

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

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

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

Great Expectations

If you have told your story as you most want to tell it, then you can indeed expect it to be accepted somewhere.

William KenowerOctober 20, 2022Writing, Publicaiton, William Kenower, Rejection, AcceptanceComment

Everyday Acceptance

Every time I thought results mattered more than my experience, I rejected myself.

William KenowerOctober 10, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Rejection, AcceptanceComment

War and Peace

There’s always a little relief every time I finish a sentence that belongs in my story.

William KenowerJune 2, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Resistance, Peace, AcceptanceComment

Safe Harbor

Everyone thinks they want to be loved, but they don’t.

William KenowerJanuary 10, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Love, AcceptanceComment

Resolved

I was reminding myself what I truly cared about.

William KenowerJanuary 3, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Reslutions, AcceptanceComment

Accepting Reality

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

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

Acceptable Compass

I had found my compass, the internal light by which all my creative endeavors would be guided.

William KenowerMarch 3, 2021William Kenower, Writing, Guidance, Acceptance, Rejection Comments

The First Success

If the story she chooses to tell is most natural to her, if it requires none of the effort she had come to associate with success, she may feel a bit as if she’s given up.

William KenowerFebruary 8, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Success, AcceptanceComment

New Normal

I forget I was the one who chose that goal, and it becomes something without which my life is incomplete.

William KenowerNovember 30, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Goals, Acceptance, PublishingComment

Persisently Friendly

How much friendlier the world seemed when I did not ask it to make me happy.

William KenowerJuly 1, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Rejection, Acceptance, PersistenceComment

Kind Stories

If you knew you were just fine as you were, would you still get up before the kids to write every morning?

William KenowerJune 24, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Kindness, Criticism, AcceptanceComment

Not Normal

It is not my job, nor anyone’s job, to belong anywhere.

William KenowerApril 17, 2020William kenower, Writing, Normal, Acceptance, ParentingComment

Accepting Appreciation

One of the challenges of being an artist is learning how to accept other people’s appreciation with integrity.

William KenowerJanuary 6, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Acceptance, Appreciation, RejectionComment