Editor's Blog — Author

Real Experience

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

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

Real Dreamers

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

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

The First Success

If the story she chooses to tell is most natural to her, if it requires none of the effort she had come to associate with success, she may feel a bit as if she’s given up.

William KenowerFebruary 8, 2021Writing, William Kenower, Success, AcceptanceComment

Why Writers Can't Actually Fail

It easy to spin dark fantasies about your future, a science fiction dystopia where nothing you write is read.

William KenowerOctober 9, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Failure, Running, SuccessComment

The Math of Life

Publishing is how I share what I’ve written, and sharing things I love with other people is another way of reminding me why life is interesting and worth living.

William KenowerSeptember 16, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Meaning, Love, Money, SuccessComment

Special Recognition

I needed to understand where the challenges of being human overlapped with the challenges of writing.

William KenowerJune 29, 2020Writing, Success, William Kenower, SpecialComment

The Secret Formula

Our greatest challenge is to allow what’s within us to find its form.

William KenowerMay 27, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Success, ValueComment

The End of the World

A true ghost town is an abandoned idea, a location that can no longer serve the people who would live there.

William KenowerMarch 18, 2020William Kenower, Writing, Success, Failure, ApocalypseComment

A New Story

I had always hated and feared this story, but I decided on the day I told it to Eric to make it a funny story.

William KenowerMarch 2, 2020William Kenower, Writing, Stories, Success, Failure, HumorComment

Showing Up

I had an entertainer’s instinctual relationship to crowd-size, feeling more valued, more wanted and appreciated the more people there were who came to see and hear me.

William KenowerJanuary 27, 2020Writing, William Kenower, Success, Failure, FearComment

Writing, Fame, and Kindness

Judgment is imprisonment and kindness is freedom.

William KenowerDecember 16, 2019Writing, Fame, William Kenower, Freedom, SuccessComment

Interesting Paths

I become distracted by how much attention other people are getting for what they’ve made.

William KenowerDecember 6, 2019Writing, Harlan Coben, Movies, Success, JealousyComment

Real Value

Success and failure both demand we know the source and measure of our value.

William KenowerNovember 11, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Value, Spirituality, Success, FailureComment

Measurable Value

Here it is: Your value is, without exaggeration and quite literally, beyond measure.

William KenowerAugust 30, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Success, Failure, Spirituality Comment

Choosing Our Games

Making money is a lot like a game we are all made to play.

William KenowerAugust 5, 2019William Kenower, Writing, money, Games, SuccessComment

Why You're Here

I didn’t know that the daily discomfort with which I lived was the difference between what wanted to be expressed and what I was expressing.

William KenowerJuly 8, 2019writing, William Kenower, Success, Failure, Love, SpiritualityComment

True Confessions

I just needed to tell someone, I thought. Come clean about what happens to me when I start sniffing status and money and fame, how I want to know where I rank on all fronts.

William KenowerJune 7, 2019Writing, William Kenower, Fame, Fear, SuccessComment