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William Kenower

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William Kenower is the author of Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write With Confidence, and Write Within Yourself: An Author’s Companion, the Editor-in-Chief of Author magazine, and a sought-after speaker and teacher. In addition to his books he’s been published in The New York Times and Edible Seattle, and has been a featured blogger for the Huffington Post. His video interviews with hundreds of writers from Nora Ephron, to Amy Tan, to William Gibson are widely considered the best of their kind on the Internet. He also hosts the online radio program Author2Author where every week he and a different guest discuss the books we write and the lives we lead.

An Act of Kindness

I was taking questions at the end of a class years ago when a gloomy fellow at the back of the room raised his hand. “My problem with writing,” he said, “is the selling and marketing of my stories. I don’t do this to prostitute myself.” It was a strong take, to be sure, but I understood his reservations. I waited tables for many, many years, and if you had asked me at the time, I would have told

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“Feel first, write second.”
William Kenower, Write Within Yourself: An Author's Companion

“But as writers, much of the pleasure of writing is finding our balance. Once we have found our confidence in one type of story, it is not unusual to cast our creative eye toward stories we have never told before and for which we have yet to receive evidence that there are readers as interested in those stories as we are. And so the wobble returns. I know so many writers who have written so many books, and nearly all of them seek a fresh discovery of their confidence with each new story they tell. Sit these authors down privately, and they will share their insecurities with you. Yet it is only a game, really, one that is more interesting when it’s challenging. The insecurity, the wobble, merely reminds us of how interesting it is to find what we know already exists. Discovery never gets dull.”
William Kenower, Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write with Confidence

“Endings are where you remember what you actually have. When you come to the end of a story, when you accept that the story did for you what it could, when you let it find its proper conclusion, you often experience a short period of something that feels like sadness. Except it isn’t sadness. In the noisy hurly-burly of your nonwriting life, you’ve mistaken the natural quietness at a story’s end for sadness.”
William Kenower, Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write with Confidence

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