Editor's Blog — Author

An Interesting Wait

What is it I do when I’m writing? Mostly, listening and waiting; waiting and listening.

William KenowerJune 19, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Boredom, SpiritualityComment

Answered

Sometimes if you tune into a person you feel as if they’re a character in one of your stories.

William KenowerJune 17, 2019writing, life, William kenower, SpiritualityComment

Glad For Nothing

Sometimes nothing is the best thing.

William KenowerJune 12, 2019writing, creativity, William Kenower, Spirituality Comments

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

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

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

Finding Stilness

In my desperation to feel better, I forgot that all momentum begins in stillness.

William KenowerApril 26, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Stillness, Spirituality, CreativityComment

The Way Out

You have to believe more in what you want than what you don’t, believe more in love than fear.

William KenowerApril 22, 2019Writing, Creativity, William Kenower, Hell, Ideas, SpiritualityComment

Mysterious Treasures

That which compelled your search, your unique interest and curiosity, remains your truest and only compass.

William KenowerApril 17, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Discovery, Stories, SpiritualityComment

The Authors

We can give our characters a mansion as easily as we can give them a shoebox.

William KenowerApril 12, 2019Writing, Stories, William kenower, SpiritualityComment

Long Drive Home

My past is most useful to me now as source material, all of which has to be written about in the present for the present.

William KenowerApril 10, 2019Writing, Driving, Journeys, SpiritualityComment

Know It All

For a time my heart had seemed like a fickle lover, abandoning me over the smallest misstep, stranding me in a world of right and wrong answers.

William KenowerApril 8, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Spirituality, LoveComment

Stay Connected

Connection comes before all meaningful action; never the other way around.

William KenowerApril 5, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Spirituality, Connection, Inspiration Comments

Love Songs

I have never once described the world I live in, only what I think of it, what I want from it, what I believe about it.

William KenowerMarch 29, 2019Writing, Singing, Beauty, William Kenower, Spirituality, DescriptionComment

No Apologies

Everyone’s innocent, but everyone also believes something that isn’t true.

William KenowerMarch 27, 2019William Kenower, Stories, Apology, Memoir, SpiritualityComment

All Things Being Equal

The budding artist in me secretly believed the easiest way to relate to someone was to be adored and admired.

William KenowerMarch 25, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Spirituality, Equality, LearningComment

Body and Mind

Here's the thing about writing: you can’t do it unless you want to, unless you know it’s your choice.

William KenowerMarch 13, 2019William Kenower, Writing, School, SpiritualityComment