Editor's Blog — Author

A Fitting End

My mind, after all, looks like that TV sometimes.

William KenowerFebruary 27, 2023Writing, Stories, Complaint, William KenowerComment

Vivid Normalcy

Spectacular failure is so much more memorable than success.

William KenowerFebruary 22, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Stories, Success, FailureComment

Right Now

Every time I sit down to write, I’m not quite the same person I was the day before.

William KenowerFebruary 20, 2023Writing, William Kenower, The Secret Garden, Evolution, FearComment

The Art of Acceptance

To write my best and live my best I must be free.

William KenowerFebruary 15, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Praise, Criticism, AcceptanceComment

Time In The Desert

There is nothing like dying of thirst to appreciate a simple glass of water.

William KenowerFebruary 13, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Suffering, Stories, Success, FailureComment

Something Pure

I felt a bit like those snowballs sometimes, rapidly growing but also accidentally collecting a lot of junk in my mind along the way.

William KenowerFebruary 8, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Learning, TruthComment

A Poor Teacher

If you write without wanting to be read, speak without wanting to be heard, you’re a creature in conflict with yourself.

William KenowerFebruary 6, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Singing, ShameComment

An Elusive Practice

I have to continually remind myself that not knowing, that axiomatic prerequisite for discovery, is not a cause for insecurity.

William KenowerFebruary 1, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Discovery, PracticeComment

Why Everyone Has Time to Write

I will never get up an hour earlier to ask, “Why bother?”

William KenowerJanuary 30, 2023William Kenower, Time, Writing, FearComment

A Writer's Clemency

None of us ever want to stand as an example of how not to write, want to commit a crime for which there is no forgiveness.

William KenowerJanuary 25, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Guilt, ForgivenessComment

No Argument

Stories and essays and, for that matter, conversation itself, are not about winning.

William KenowerJanuary 23, 2023Writing, Stories, William Kenower, ArgumentComment

Our Place In The World

I used to get angry when I was young and I’d hear the loud applause after some band I loathed had finished one of their lousy songs.

William KenowerJanuary 18, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Saturday Night Live, Music, PreferenceComment

The Kind Rejection

People can be very convincing when they’re telling you how lousy they actually are.

William KenowerJanuary 16, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Stories, Friends, Despair, RejectionComment

Serving Life

A good story is always in service to the one who’s telling it and the one who’s hearing it.

William KenowerJanuary 11, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Stories, Radanth SwamiComment

The Smiling Faces

Speak first to the smiling faces and the others might come along.

William KenowerJanuary 9, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Fear, FantasyComment

Where The Story Starts

Complaints are many a story’s beginning, but never its end.

William KenowerJanuary 4, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Complaints, StoriesComment

The Lightness of Stories

The tension of conflict has no real value unless it’s eventually followed by the release of resolution.

William KenowerJanuary 2, 2023Writing, William Kenower, Stories, The Beatles Comments

Learning From What We Already Know

It is hard to believe sometimes that from something so small as an interesting idea can grow something so big as a book or a career.

William KenowerDecember 28, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Learning, KnowledgeComment

The First Solution

It is the moment I breathe for the first time that I appreciate what I otherwise do every moment of every day.

William KenowerDecember 26, 2022Writing, William Kenower, Stories, Suffering, SuccessComment

Acceptable Writers

If I’m disciplined, there’s a pleasure in recognizing what I want to change, like seeing a part of myself I’ve not acknowledged.

William KenowerDecember 19, 2022Writing, William Kenower, AcceptanceComment