Editor's Blog — Author

Careful Conversations

I certainly like things that are easy, but I also like a friendly world, and that sometimes requires me to take care.

William KenowerNovember 2, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Conversation, Friends, Thought, Rejection, AcceptanceComment

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

Friendly Stories

A story needs an author and an audience, and each of us were both that evening.

William KenowerOctober 26, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Stories, FriendshipComment

Good Training

I saw no connection between what I was doing and what I was thinking.

William KenowerOctober 24, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Running, William FaulknerComment

Great Expectations

If you have told your story as you most want to tell it, then you can indeed expect it to be accepted somewhere.

William KenowerOctober 20, 2022Writing, Publicaiton, William Kenower, Rejection, AcceptanceComment

The Thread

The action of putting words on the page is merely the very last step in a process that takes place almost entirely within the formless interior of the imagination.

William KenowerOctober 18, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Boredom, StoriesComment

Selfish

Everything we’ve ever done is for us.

William KenowerOctober 12, 2022Writing, William Kenower, SelifshnessComment

Everyday Acceptance

Every time I thought results mattered more than my experience, I rejected myself.

William KenowerOctober 10, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Rejection, AcceptanceComment

Finding Balance

I experienced that familiar vertigo that comes when I look to others to tell me the value of my work.

William KenowerOctober 5, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Publishing, BalanceComment

Real Writers

I have missed most of all is that unique, alive crackling silence that descends on a crowd when their attention is unified in anticipation.

William KenowerOctober 3, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Speaking, TeachingComment

Saying Hello

In that simple, human exchange, so much was revealed to me that I couldn’t have imagined in my fan’s excitable mind.

William KenowerSeptember 28, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Sarah Vowel, InterviewsComment

Cat Answers

Cats, in my experience, are always satisfied and complete.

William KenowerSeptember 26, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Cats, FearComment

The Right Choice

I would just be me; no ornamentation. If the relationship wasn’t real, that had to be okay.

William KenowerSeptember 21, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Love, Choices, RealityComment

The Inner Artist

Since I didn’t have a story I was burning to tell, I couldn’t ask myself if what I’d written accurately captured its heat and light.

William KenowerSeptember 19, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Intuition, TrustComment

Author and Editor

The writer is always more disappointed than the editor, but an editor must wrestle with his or her own emotions as well.

William KenowerSeptember 14, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Editors, Rejection Comments

A Satisfying Answer

When we say we don’t know if our story is any good, we’re being dishonest.

William KenowerSeptember 12, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Stories, SatisfactionComment

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

Fantasy and Reality

I have lived in fantasy any time I believed my well-being was the consequence of some result or condition.

William KenowerAugust 31, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Fantasy, RealityComment

The Discipline of Waiting

I waited as I often do at the page when nothing good is coming.

William KenowerAugust 29, 2022Writing, Thinking, William Kenower, Despair, Hoope, HopeComment

Somewhere Safe and Friendly

To write, I must go somewhere devoid of anyone’s opinion except my own.

William KenowerAugust 24, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Reading, StoriesComment