Fearless Writing with Bill Kenower

Send us Fan Mail You may not know much, but you do know what you love. If you love the story you’ve written, let it be your guide through the wide publishing waters.

Send us Fan Mail People spend a lot of time and money searching for meaning their life. The beauty of writing is we often find it there by ourselves in our workroom facing a blank 

Send us Fan Mail My second favorite writing rule: feel first, write second. Our stories are never about what happens, but how our characters feel when something happens. 

Send us Fan Mail Depth comes from looking at our role, or our protagonist’s role, in the conflict. It’s true in stories, and it’s true in life. 

Send us Fan Mail There’s no such thing as a hard truth. Whether it’s the story you’re telling on the page or to yourself about yourself, the truth is always effortless and friendly, if we allow it.

Send us Fan Mail When writing about something you’ve never expressed before, go slow and get the language right. Most disagreement grows from careless language.

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes you might feel like you spend all your time taking care of things. The question writing asks is: what do you care about  

Send us Fan Mail Writing teaches to care about our choices. Every word in every sentence is a choice you’ve made, just as every thought you think or action you take. 

Send us Fan Mail Writing has saved me from despair and fear many times. Here’s a story of one such occasion. 

Send us Fan Mail Beginning writers often feel like they need to know everything about their story before they can begin. Experienced writers have learned that they discover almost everything as they write. 

Send us Fan Mail Just as you do when you write, you should also ask what the most satisfying way to share your work might be. Perhaps it’s traditional publishing, or perhaps it’s not.

Send us Fan Mail Every story leaves a reader somewhere. Where do you want to leave your reader. How do you hope they’ll feel when they close your book?

Send us Fan Mail Anyone can write something beautiful when life calls them to; writers want to write beautifully every day. To do so, we must find the stories that life is calling for us to tell. 

Send us Fan Mail We avoid writing for much the same reason we become addicted to food or shopping or alcohol: to avoid discomfort. On the other side of that discomfort is always something creative. 

Send us Fan Mail So many people feel like they don’t have time to write because it doesn’t seem essential compared to their kids or job or marriage. If it feels inspiring or exhilarating or soothing to write – it’s essential. 

As soon as we hear the applause or see our posts getting likes or receive an award, we can start becoming confused about WHY we write. Lose track of the real reason, and you’ll find yourself wondering why you do it. 

Readers often use authors to give themselves permission to feel good, to have hope, to believe in themselves. Take that authority seriously and you’ll be amazed how many people you’ll inspire. 

Whether it’s food, friendship, or writing, it’s always good to ask yourself what truly satisfies you? Sometimes the answer will surprise you.

You’re not avoiding what you love to do, you’re avoiding what you think you fear. You can change how you think about writing and you’ll write more often. 

Here’s a crash course in how to apply the concepts of fearless writing to marketing your work. Remember, you only do something well that you enjoy doing. If you hate to market, or are bored by it, or intimidated by it, it won’t go well. 

An all-day artist learns to trust their curiosity to handle problems and challenges as they arise. Curiosity has no fear of the unknown; it’s where it thrives.

You may have heard that all you need is inside you. If writing doesn’t teach you this every single day you sit down, then nothing else will.

Even though authors can generally take as much time as they need to pen their novels or memoirs, there is still an element of improvisation when we write. 

It’s easy, once we seek publication, to lose track of why write. The fact is, the more forget why we write, the harder it is to find success.

Writing has taught me like nothing else that there’s no point comparing myself to anyone – not to their work or their life. The hardest thing is to do is try to write someone else book or lead someone else’s life.