Editor's Blog — Author

True Confessions

I just needed to tell someone, I thought. Come clean about what happens to me when I start sniffing status and money and fame, how I want to know where I rank on all fronts.

William KenowerJune 7, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Fame, Fear, SuccessComment

Golf Dreams and Nightmares

I had nightmares of my own, I thought, and I didn’t like them. Why would I want to travel through Alice Cooper’s?

William KenowerJune 5, 2019Comment

The Eyes of Love

Writing has taught me I will find what I want quickest within myself.

William KenowerMay 29, 2019writing, stories, perception, William Kenower, loveComment

What is Real

It is tempting to write with this idea of immortality in mind, thinking that if future strangers are still whispering your name in libraries and classrooms you will somehow avoid what is often seen as the travesty of death.

William KenowerMay 27, 2019writing, William Kenower, dreams, imagination, reality, spirituality Comments

A Meeting Place

Sometimes the story I most want to tell feels so close to how I think and talk and see the world that it’s hard to imagine that story inhabiting anyone’s imagination but my own.

William KenowerMay 24, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Maria Semple, Humor, Stories, VoiceComment

Home Safe

If you want to write, if you want to make something that wasn’t there yesterday, you’ll have to accept that the future is no place to find your safety.

William KenowerMay 22, 2019Writing, Fear, Safety, William Kenower, Spirituality Comments

Stay Interested

Without interest, nothing happens. It’s the fuel that runs every creative engine.

William KenowerMay 20, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Tembi Locke, Alan Gelb, Memoir, Stories, InterestComment

Old Wounds

The heat of that which has not healed burns so strong it can drive a story on its fire alone.

William KenowerMay 17, 2019writing, pain, stories, belief, spirituality Comments

Finding The Story

Every time I begin to find that story, every time I catch the first interesting glimpse of its tail, I grow up a little bit more.

William KenowerMay 15, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Stories, SpiritualityComment

Friendly Disagreement

Therein lies the source of most disagreements: everyone’s taking a different route to the same place.

William KenowerMay 13, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Memoir, Personal Essay, Conflict, Characters, PeaceComment

Writing My Way Home

Though I would not ask for hopelessness, I must acknowledge its value in my work.

William KenowerMay 10, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Spirituality, Hope, HopelessnessComment

As We've Always Been

If I’m writing about my life, I’m really writing about life itself, the thing I’m living in, the thing I’m a part of – the whole of creation, really.

William KenowerMay 8, 2019Stories, Memoir, Spirituality, Writing, William KenowerComment

One Question

My son explained to me one day, “Michael knows all the answers.” All, it turns, except one.

William KenowerMay 6, 2019Writing, Interest, Spirituality, LearningComment

No Offense: How Not to Fear the Politically Correct Reader

People have said plenty of unkind things to me in my life, particularly about my work. Yet the things these people said only “hurt” when I believed them.

William KenowerMay 3, 2019Writing, Nick Bantock, William Kenower, Misunderstanding, SpiritualityComment