Success — 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

The First Solution

It is the moment I breathe for the first time that I appreciate what I otherwise do every moment of every day.

William KenowerDecember 26, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Stories, Suffering, SuccessComment

Correct Intention

I told myself it didn’t matter how long it took to write it, that it didn’t matter if I never finished it, I would not write it to try to please her.

William KenowerDecember 5, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Intention, SuccessComment

Beneath the Surface

If no one else can see it, read it, or hear it, is it even real?

William KenowerOctober 31, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Success, Imagination Comment

Homecoming

In order to write I must first enter the very frame of mind I hope publishing success will grant me.

William KenowerSeptember 6, 2022Writing, Success, William Kenower, Home, Mindset Comment

The True Source

What’s the opposite of greed? I thought.

William KenowerJuly 5, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Greed, Generosity, Success, PovertyComment

Freedom

I thought that once I was successful, I would be free at last from doing something I didn’t want to do, and that what I was doing always determined how I felt.

William KenowerMay 16, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Success, Feeling Comment

Perfect

Theoretically, there was a correct – a perfect – number of grounds to make the best brew.

William KenowerMarch 16, 2022Writing, Success, William Kenower, PerfectionComment

Just Like Me

This journey has helped me understand other people like nothing else.

William KenowerMarch 14, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Marc Maron, SuccessComment

Already Free

I cannot put myself in some prison, believing the only way out is through success.

William KenowerFebruary 9, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Freedom, Success Comment

Familiar Poison

Believing someone has more than me is like starving myself so that I will want to eat. I

William KenowerFebruary 7, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Envy, SuccessComment

Discovering Experience

Everything, even what we think of as success, is still just an experience.

William KenowerNovember 22, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Experience, SuccessComment

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

Real Pleasure

I spent many years more or less overlooking my lived experiences when dreaming my future, as if I would be a different person once this or that happened.

William KenowerNovember 3, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Dungeons and Dragons, Games, Fun, SuccessComment

Agreement

Whether I am writing it, selling it, or promoting it, my job is always to articulate my story’s value.

William KenowerSeptember 27, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Publicaiton, SuccessComment

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

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

The Prize

The award was my proof, the three-dimensional evidence to which I could point if some odious doubter questions my stories’ worth.

William KenowerApril 14, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Awards, SuccessComment

Life Unchanging

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

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