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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.

The Right Direction

Every so often I’ll hear this strange piece of advice: “I don’t think it’s time to worry.” I understand the intention. It’s a way to reassure someone that they needn’t fret about the economy, or their children’s grades, or their book sales, while still acknowledging that of course there are times when the only thing to do is worry. It would be irresponsible to believe otherwise. Just not at this

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

“Forget about criticism and praise, forget about markets and agents and editors. You will remember all of that in time. But for now, forget it. No one is looking over your shoulder, no one is reading what you have written, and no one has an opinion about it. Right now you are alone, and it is time to write.”
William Kenower, Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write with Confidence

“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

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