Writing — Editor's Blog

A Common Puzzle

The more I think about my stories, the more I try to understand them, the less sense they make.

William KenowerDecember 18, 2024WritingComment

Enjoy The View

Pleasing me, it turns out, is no one’s job but mine.

William KenowerDecember 11, 2024WritingComment

A Life of Rest

There’s something within you that can’t quit.

William KenowerDecember 4, 2024WritingComment

Powerless

The sitting and the staring and the typing all feel the same.

William KenowerNovember 27, 2024Writing Comments

The Popes are in the Pool

I think everyone wants to be entertained, and everyone also wants to know why life is worth living.

William KenowerNovember 7, 2024WritingComment

Somebody

There was something holy to me about the raised proscenium and the rows of chairs and the lights above.

William KenowerOctober 30, 2024Writing Comment

Stepping Back

Writing is a way of stepping back from our thoughts and beliefs and experiences so that we can see them accurately.

William KenowerOctober 23, 2024Writing Comment

Perfectly Equipped

My main job when teaching is to remind my students that they are perfectly equipped to tell any story the want to tell.

William KenowerOctober 9, 2024WritingComment

The Real You

That guy taking care of stuff, the domestic Bill, the busy Bill – I don’t think of him as the real me anymore.

William KenowerOctober 2, 2024WritingComment

Writing is the Opposite of Thinking

All the blank page wants to know is what you’re most interested in right now.

William KenowerSeptember 25, 2024WritingComment

An Organizing Force

There is something more powerful than a good review or a clever Instagram post or even the recommendation of a friend at play when stories and lovers are found.

William KenowerSeptember 18, 2024WritingComment

The Whole World

To see a memory or a moment without judgment, to just behold it, is to glimpse the totality and integrity of the world

William KenowerSeptember 11, 2024Writing Comment

A Little Service

Every detail in the story is there only to serve it, and the story serves the author, who also serves it in the telling.

William KenowerSeptember 4, 2024Writing Comment

Equal Kindness

What we call inequality is a lack of kindness, which everyone has experienced in solitude at some point.

William KenowerAugust 28, 2024Writing Comment

The Best Guide

If there’s one thing I know for sure, it’s what I love.

William KenowerAugust 21, 2024WritingComment

Why We're Here

By all means, fill your stories with conflict. But do so with a purpose.

William KenowerAugust 14, 2024Writing Comments

Certainty

The only thing I can be really certain about is what I like right now, and even that requires some focus.

William KenowerAugust 7, 2024Writing Comment

A Sobering Choice

Writing, at its best, is the practice of looking for what we want exactly where it is.

William KenowerJuly 31, 2024WritingComment

Nothing To Lose

What more could I want other than to be interested and surprised and satisfied, to express in the world – if only on a page – what I knew first in the private theater of my imagination.

William KenowerJuly 17, 2024Writing Comment

Always An Artist

There’s something about my life away from the desk, with mortgages and groceries and medical bills, that seems forever tied to the uncreative business of mere survival.

William KenowerJuly 10, 2024Writing Comment