Failure — Editor's Blog

Vivid Normalcy

Spectacular failure is so much more memorable than success.

William KenowerFebruary 22, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Stories, Success, FailureComment

Time In The Desert

There is nothing like dying of thirst to appreciate a simple glass of water.

William KenowerFebruary 13, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Suffering, Stories, Success, FailureComment

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

A New Friend

As someone who has spent all of his life practicing all kinds of things, I’ve had to accept there is actually no perfecting anything.

William KenowerNovember 15, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Success, Failure, PracticeComment

The Scoreboard

I saw the arts as a refuge from the endless game of which life sometimes seemed made.

William KenowerAugust 25, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Winning, Losing, Success, FailureComment

Life Unchanging

I am always most interested in how we are the same.

William KenowerApril 7, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Success, FailureComment

Real Experience

Shame blocks out of the light of learning, hoping to extinguish past experiences.

William KenowerMarch 29, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Rejection, Success, FailureComment

Why Writers Can't Actually Fail

It easy to spin dark fantasies about your future, a science fiction dystopia where nothing you write is read.

William KenowerOctober 9, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Failure, Running, SuccessComment

The End of the World

A true ghost town is an abandoned idea, a location that can no longer serve the people who would live there.

William KenowerMarch 18, 2020William Kenower, Writing, Success, Failure, ApocalypseComment

A New Story

I had always hated and feared this story, but I decided on the day I told it to Eric to make it a funny story.

William KenowerMarch 2, 2020William Kenower, Writing, Stories, Success, Failure, HumorComment

Showing Up

I had an entertainer’s instinctual relationship to crowd-size, feeling more valued, more wanted and appreciated the more people there were who came to see and hear me.

William KenowerJanuary 27, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Success, Failure, FearComment

Real Value

Success and failure both demand we know the source and measure of our value.

William KenowerNovember 11, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Value, Spirituality, Success, FailureComment

Measurable Value

Here it is: Your value is, without exaggeration and quite literally, beyond measure.

William KenowerAugust 30, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Success, Failure, Spirituality Comment

Why You're Here

I didn’t know that the daily discomfort with which I lived was the difference between what wanted to be expressed and what I was expressing.

William KenowerJuly 8, 2019writing, William Kenower, Success, Failure, Love, SpiritualityComment

Reason Enough

Choice, Failure, Happiness, Perception, Success, WritingBill KenowerFebruary 23, 2018Failure, Happiness, Reasons, Spirituality, Success, William Kenower, WritingComment

Time in the Desert

Choice, Failure, Learning, Success, WritingBill KenowerFebruary 16, 2018Failure, Learning, Success, William Kenower, WritingComment

A Better Story

Failure, Stories, Success, WritingBill KenowerDecember 13, 2017Failure, Judgment, Stories, Success, William Kenower, WritingComment

Know Your Job

Choice, Craft, Curiosity, Failure, Success, WritingBill KenowerAugust 23, 2017Curiosity, Failure, Imagination, Success, William Kenower, WritingComment

What's the Point?

Choice, Failure, Fear, Success, WritingBill KenowerAugust 11, 2017Failure, Music, Success, William Kenower, WritingComment

Making Something

Choice, Failure, Perception, Success, WritingBill KenowerAugust 9, 2017Ambition, Evolution, Failure, Success, William Kenower, WritingComment