Editor's Blog — Author

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

Into The Center

The market doesn’t know what it wants, except that it wants to want something.

William KenowerSeptember 22, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Marketing, DesireComment

Shadows

The threat of forever is the inner critic’s weapon of choice.

William KenowerSeptember 20, 2021Writing, William kenower, Inner Editor, ConversationsComment

All Writers Are Optimists

When I look at the blank page, I do not see my story glass as completely empty or even half-empty.

William KenowerSeptember 15, 2021William Kenower, Writing, Optimism, PublishingComment

Good Endings

If something did not exist in my life, if I could not hold it in my hand, look at it, drive it, live in it, then it seemed only realistic that I never would.

William KenowerSeptember 13, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Stories, Endings, BeliefComment

Completely Me

To write, I have to forget about everything but my imagination.

William KenowerSeptember 9, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Creativity, ImaginationComment

Where To Begin

To create anything, I simply cannot spend my time thinking about what I don’t have and what I don’t like.

William KenowerSeptember 7, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Creativity, FearComment

Body and Soul

The writing only starts once I stop beating myself up and doubting and worrying and despairing.

William KenowerSeptember 2, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Healing, Health, CreativityComment

Away From The Mirror

It’s not the people in the crowd who laugh at your jokes that help you relax, it’s the ones who don’t.

William KenowerAugust 30, 2021Writing, William Kenower, AppearanceComment

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

Keep Looking

A writer discovers a story that lives unseen and untold within her.

William KenowerAugust 23, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Stories, DragonsComment

Dependable Magic

I have no clue where ideas really come from. All I know is what I must do in order for those ideas to arrive.

William KenowerAugust 18, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Technology, Ideas, InspirationComment

Not The End

Grief is never the end. It can’t be.

William KenowerAugust 16, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Stories, Death, TaxiComment

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

Striking Oil

It wasn’t even the idea itself I cared about, just its arrival.

William KenowerAugust 9, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Creativity, Stories, InspiraitonComment

What You Have

It’s a mistake to believe that what you need to write your story exists outside of you.

William KenowerAugust 4, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Reading, Stories, Personal EssayComment

A Friendly Deception

I will tend to fall back on things I’ve known and trusted in the past to find what I’m looking for.

William KenowerAugust 2, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Teaching, MarketingComment

The Saint Within

Every story ever told grows from the same fertile thought: Life matters.

William KenowerJuly 28, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Reading, SaintsComment

It's All Fiction

All of my past as I have come to know it is a fiction, by which I mean not the whole truth.

William KenowerJuly 26, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Claire Dederer, Fiction, Memoir Comment

Instant Creation

If I don’t believe I have the same power to create anything in my life the way I have the power to write any story on a blank page, I will sometimes tell myself I don’t know what I want.

William KenowerJuly 21, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Creation, DoubtComment