Editor's Blog — Author

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

Never Disappointing

When I get to the end of a story, I am most pleased when that story feels like something I followed and found, not something I made.

William KenowerMay 10, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Results, StoriesComment

Your Best

Someone somewhere will be influenced by your story. It’s inevitable.

William KenowerMay 5, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Martha Beck, Stories, CultureComment

Art and Commerce

There is nothing more painful than not acknowledging that I love what I love.

William KenowerMay 3, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Marketing, Love, PromotionComment

In Service

The story is wiser than I am, knows more than I do.

William KenowerApril 28, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Stories, ServiceComment

Plenty

I cannot believe that some stories are better than other stories, or that some writers are better than other writers.

William KenowerApril 26, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Creativity, SpirituualityComment

Practice Believing

It wasn’t that these students didn’t know how to write a story, it was that they didn’t know they knew how to write a story.

William KenowerApril 21, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Belief, CraftComment

Exercising Your Writing Muscle

The writing muscle is a seeing muscle that can’t be seen.

William KenowerApril 19, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Exercise, Talent, LoveComment

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

Cooperative Nature

You can try to confine yourself in a silent cell, safe from winds of other people’s pleasure, but you cannot keep yourself from growing.

William KenowerApril 12, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Publishing, CooperationComment

Life Unchanging

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

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

The Pulse of Curiosity

I have probably heard a thousand writers describe what it is to write, and it always sounds the same.

William KenowerApril 5, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Curiosity, InterviewsComment

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

Real Experience

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

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

Paths and Ladders

There’s no escaping the choice you have to make about how much there is in life to go around.

William KenowerMarch 24, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Careers, CompetitionComment

Where You Are

We would with equal force reject our own extinction.

William KenowerMarch 22, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Equality, Fear Comment

Eternal Trust

Mine has been a lifelong practice of learning whose guidance to follow.

William KenowerMarch 17, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Trust, Craft, EgoComment

In Time

Time is a funny commodity. I have complained that I’ve had too much and not enough of it.

William KenowerMarch 15, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Time, PracticeComment

Real Dreamers

Everything we dream is real as soon as we dream it.

William KenowerMarch 10, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Dreams, SuccessComment

Little Altars

I had to take Joyce off the altar on which I’d placed him, and put life on that altar instead.

William KenowerMarch 8, 2021Writing, William Kenower, James Joyce, UlyssesComment