Rejection — 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

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 Kind Rejection

People can be very convincing when they’re telling you how lousy they actually are.

William KenowerJanuary 16, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Stories, Friends, Despair, RejectionComment

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

Author and Editor

The writer is always more disappointed than the editor, but an editor must wrestle with his or her own emotions as well.

William KenowerSeptember 14, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Editors, Rejection Comments

Real Experience

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

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

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

Just What I Wanted

Secretly, I realized, this is what I’d always wanted: just to hear how sorry someone was for me.

William KenowerSeptember 23, 2020Writing, Complaint, William Kenower, Despair, Rejection Comments

Knowing Where to Look

Here’s the thing about The Pit: there’s nothing there.

William KenowerSeptember 14, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Despair, Rejection, News Comments

The Known World

The arrows were all as harmless and transparent as thoughts.

William KenowerAugust 7, 2020William Kenower, Writing, Rejection, SufferingComment

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

Won't Quit

You know you can’t actually quit what’s right for you.

William KenowerMay 18, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Rejection, QuittingComment

Helpful Rejection

I understood how hard it was to see that she had helped him, tainted as this help seemed by rejection.

William KenowerApril 3, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Publication, Rejection, HelpComment

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

Saying Nothing

Saying nothing taught me more about acceptance than all the laughs and agreement I’d ever shared

William KenowerDecember 11, 2019writing, William Kenower, Acceptance, Rejection, SilenceComment

Acceptable

Love is never rejected, but the myriad forms it takes will never please everyone.

William KenowerNovember 18, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Thelonious Monk, Acceptance, Rejection, Taste, JazzComment

My Allowance

Confidence, Publishing, Rejection, Success, WritingBill KenowerMarch 7, 2018Acceptance, Publication, Rejection, Spirituality, William Kenower, WritingComment

Gifted

Attention, Failure, Rejection, Success, WritingBill KenowerDecember 1, 2017Rejection, Spirituality, Success, William Kenower, WritingComment