Spirituality — Editor's Blog

Silence Speaks

Most thinking is useless. It’s circular, repetitive, worrisome, or argumentative.

William KenowerJanuary 19, 2022Writing, William Kenwoer, Silence, Spirituality Comments

No Limit

Your life is a blank page, a story being written every morning.

William KenowerOctober 18, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Creativity, SpiritualityComment

Where The Stories Are

The first thing I must do is forget about the world around me, forget what I sometimes think I am.

William KenowerAugust 11, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Cats, Death, Stories, Spirituality Comments

The Starting Point

The enduring, lifelong challenge, is to remember that what I truly have is always enough.

William KenowerJuly 19, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Creativity, SpiritualityComment

The Way to Do It

You can hire someone for anything that you want done more than want to do.

William KenowerJuly 7, 2021William Kenower, Writing, Spirituality, SuccessComment

Active Waiting

The more comfortable I have become with writing’s necessary waiting, the more I have to come to see these moments as the most important part of writing.

William KenowerMay 12, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Waiting, SpiritualityComment

Making Reality

I have to give what I’ve seen all my attention so I can learn what form it will take outside of my mind.

William KenowerMarch 31, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Reality, SpiritualityComment

A Grownup Writer

Proofreading feels like a rather grownup thing to do, requiring me, as it does, to take as much responsibility for the final product as possible.

William KenowerFebruary 1, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Editing, SpiritualityComment

No Exceptions

Wherever I am is where I must need and want to be, whether I understand it or not.

William KenowerAugust 12, 2020William Kenower, Writing, Teaching, Spirituality, ComplaintComment

Body and Soul

I think all the questions around writing and money really come down to this: Can I make a living doing something I would happily do for free?

William KenowerJuly 31, 2020William Kenower, Writing, Spirituality, Stories, Money, SurvivalComment

A Very Different Place

I feel as though I’ve spent my life trying to describe that space where writing begins, for without it, no story would ever be told, no song ever composed.

William KenowerJune 1, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Travel, Description, SpiritualityComment

Already There

I cannot see my own path, and this feeling of not knowing, of doubting such a path even exists, leads me to look to other people who seem certain of their life.

William KenowerMay 4, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Self, SpiritualityComment

One Enemy

Who could have predicted that this simple transference from thought to page would have the power to summon the same host of woes as the front page of any newspaper?

William KenowerApril 1, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Problem, SpiritualityComment

True Stories

All a story can do is point to something the reader or the audience may have forgotten or disregarded.

William KenowerFebruary 28, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Fearless Writing, Spirituality, Fear, LoveComment

A New Day

No matter how glad I am when that new idea arrives at my door, no matter how interested I become when I see a familiar subject from an unfamiliar perspective, I remain vaguely uneasy about tomorrow and its unwritten story.

William KenowerFebruary 17, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Creativity, Originality, SpiritualityComment

You Are Not What You Write

In truth, once I’m done writing something, I’m on to the next thing.

William KenowerFebruary 7, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Spirituality, GenreComment

Writing Retreat

There seems to be no retreat from thinking, except, perhaps, at my work desk.

William KenowerJanuary 15, 2020William Kenower, Shawn Wong, Writing, Retreat, SpiritualityComment

Regifting

To give the gift of a story I had to receive it first.

William KenowerNovember 29, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Stories, Gifts, SpiritualityComment

The Normal Magic

Eventually you accept the cycle of creation.

William KenowerNovember 20, 2019William Kenower, Writing, Meaning, Love, Magic, SpiritualityComment

A Full Life

Even the most disciplined writer can find himself daydreaming of how fabulous his life might be when he gets that book done.

William KenowerNovember 15, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Books, Finishing, Meaning, SpiritualityComment