Find Your Intellectual Family Fearless Writing With Bill Kenower podcast

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Everyone needs to “come out” in one way or another, to be who they really are rather than who they believe they’re supposed to be. Writing is a great way to practice this kind of authenticity.

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Never Stop Creating 5:18

8 days ago5:18

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Life is creative and so are you. But when you stop participating deliberately in that creation, life seems random and you feel out of control. Take what you learn at the page and apply it to your whole life.

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Small Steps 6:17

15 days ago6:17

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It’s impossible to overstate how important it is to think in small steps. After all, every novel or memoir is written one sentence at a time. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, think small. It’s how you get someplace big.

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The Two Rules For Fun 5:25

22 days ago5:25

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At its core, creativity must be fun. Here are the two rules for having fun that I learned while playing Dungeons & Dragons that apply to games, writing, and life.

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The Good We Can’t See 6:26

29 days ago6:26

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It’s almost impossible to grasp the effect our work has in the world. Most of it happens where we can’t see it. But know that it’s happening, whether you ever learn of it or not.

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What To Do When Doubt Sets In 6:02

5 weeks ago6:02

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Here are the three steps I take whenever I start doubting and worrying about my work.

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You Don’t Need or Want to Know the Future 6:33

6 weeks ago6:33

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Writing teaches us every day that the pleasure of creating is discovery. The same can be true of life away from the desk, if we accept that we don’t need or want to know the future.

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Find Your Balance 5:25

7 weeks ago5:25

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Whether you’re walking a balance beam or wondering whether you’re good enough, the goal isn’t perfection but rapid course correction. Balance is always available if you pay close attention to how you feel.

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Your Curiosity Is Fearless 3:41

8 weeks ago3:41

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It loves the unknown, which is the only place it can exist. It’s only when you doubt it, resist following it, that you suffer. It will never steer you wrong.

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You Always Have Something 4:20

9 weeks ago4:20

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If you have an imagination, curiosity, and desire you always have what you need to create anything you want. These can never leave you, but you have to trust they’re enough.

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Always Ask The Right Questions 4:29

10 weeks ago4:29

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The imagination is faithful, but it doesn’t discriminate. It will answer any question you ask it. Make sure you only ask those to which you sincerely want an answer.

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No Complaints! 5:46

11 weeks ago5:46

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Sometimes our most creative moments stem from things that bother us – stories that we wished ended differently, or passages that seem sloggily written. To be truly creative, however, we can’t complain, which is focusing on the thing we don’t like. Instead, our attention must be on what we want, the story we want to tell, and the life we want to live.…

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Write Because Your Life Matters 7:43

12 weeks ago7:43

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If you’ve spent a lot of time taking care of other people, it’s easy to start believing their lives, their happiness, their safety and well-being, matters more than yours. It doesn’t. Writing demands we close the door and acknowledge that our life matters to us more than anything else.

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Your Cabin On The Beach 4:26

13 weeks ago4:26

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Writers sit down every day at their desk and summon all kinds of feelings, from joy to grief. When you’re not writing, focus less on the result you want, and more on the feeling you want, something you’re already good at.

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Look At The Swans! 5:13

14 weeks ago5:13

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A story from my brother that serves as a great reminder of how easy it is to lock our attention onto what we don’t want. Creativity is all about thinking deliberately, knowing that whatever we focus on increases.

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Craft and Desire 6:26

15 weeks ago6:26

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Our craft evolves to match our creative desires. With time, you will always be “good enough” to write the kind of story you most want to write.

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When Readers Don’t Get It 5:35

16 weeks ago5:35

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We can’t let fear of being misunderstood keep us from sharing our work. Not everyone can get everything, and that has to be okay.

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Feeling Disconnected 5:56

17 weeks ago5:56

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Sometimes we go a few days or weeks without writing and feel disconnected and dissatisfied. Try not to despair. Your true creative self is always with if you know where to look.

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The Dream Has Always Been Real 5:22

18 weeks ago5:22

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Nothing we dream exists outside of us. Just like our stories, it starts within us and then we dream it forward onto the page and into the world.

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How Writing Teaches Us To Be Free 6:24

19 weeks ago6:24

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You must be willing to tell the story you most want to tell in the way you most want to tell it. That is freedom.

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Creating on Purpose 3:28

20 weeks ago3:28

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Writing is a great way to practice creating on purpose, rather than accidentally or by default. The blank page asks what we want, and only we can answer that.

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What’s Your Motivation? 7:46

21 weeks ago7:46

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You need to know your character’s motivation to really understand them and tell compelling stories. You also need to be clear about your own motivation when you sit down to write.

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A Writer’s Best Practice 5:56

22 weeks ago5:56

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Starting this week, begin practicing how you think when you sit down to write. Practice caring about the story, not what other people think about the story. It’s as important as craft.

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Big Announcement: Fearless Writing Retreat! 1:24

23 weeks ago1:24

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I'll be hosting a Fearless Writing retreat January 26 - 31 in Portland, OR. Space is limited! I'd love to see you there. Retreat: https://www.portlandretreathouse.com/fearless-writing-with-bill-kenower Bill's website: https://www.williamkenower.com/

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You Can’t Control What You Like 6:26

23 weeks ago6:26

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We all have a personal aesthetic that’s unique to us. We can’t control it; we can only obey it. In this way, what we create is not dissimilar to the stuff we love that other people created.

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Why I Publish 6:56

24 weeks ago6:56

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It can be hard to connect to why we publish aside from money and possibly acclaim. It’s important to remember that if you’re sharing something you love, you’re making the world just a little bit better.

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Fantasy and Reality 5:09

25 weeks ago5:09

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Writing has taught me, and continues to teach me, that the only thing real in life is love. You can’t manufacture it, you can only see it, find it, notice it, and then obey it.

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Accepting All Changes 5:43

26 weeks ago5:43

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When we work with an editor, we will inevitably accept most of the changes they make to our story. It’s good preparation for sharing our work with readers, giving up our complete ownership as the reader makes the story their own.

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Real Commitment 5:00

27 weeks ago5:00

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At some point, every artist must commit to their work before they have evidence of success. Let your love of the work be reason enough to make this commitment.

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What Comes Before Craft 5:32

28 weeks ago5:32

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Learning your craft is critical, but all the know-how in the world is useless without the right mindset. Unless we wait with an open heart and curious mind, we’ll never invite the ideas to which we will apply that craft.

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Sometimes The Best Thing to Do Is Nothing 6:16

29 weeks ago6:16

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When you’re struggling, when you think you’re no good, when you feel like your story stinks – don’t try to fix anything. Do nothing until the feeling passes and you can make a better choice.

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Writing As A Way To Meet Yourself 5:04

30 weeks ago5:04

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The point of writing is never the outcome. An outcome is just an excuse to focus in a meaningful way, and when we do, we meet ourselves in a way we rarely do otherwise.

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Ignore the Odds 8:11

31 weeks ago8:11

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The only real certainty in writing and in life comes when we follow that guidance that tells us what story to write and how best to write it. If you don’t follow that, life will seem random, even though it isn’t.

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More Fearless Marketing 5:41

32 weeks ago5:41

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Two helpful tips to get over our resistance to marketing: make it fun, and offer a conversation. It’s nearly impossible to do anything well that we don’t enjoy, and we don’t so much sell our books as invite readers to join a conversation.

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Pain-Free Writing 5:01

33 weeks ago5:01

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When we write, we’re always seeking the effortless way forward. But we often meet resistance. The pain comes when we try to force our way through the resistance rather than find the better, more natural way.

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Always Be Creative 6:59

34 weeks ago6:59

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You’re an artist. You don’t have to stop being an artist just because you’re marketing your work. Keep being creative in everything you do. It’ll be more fun and more productive.

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Writing and The Eternal 4:39

35 weeks ago4:39

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People deal with death and loss all the time. Yet writing requires us to tap into something eternal within ourselves, something undying that is always seeking expression.

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The Elusive Art of Being Yourself 6:10

36 weeks ago6:10

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It shouldn’t be hard to be yourself. What else could you possibly be? Yet writing, and the arts in general, have taught me like nothing else that being myself requires as much trust as anything I’ve ever done.

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Meet Your Own Expectations 5:31

37 weeks ago5:31

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Sometimes our stories don’t meet our readers expectations of what a story is supposed to be. That’s okay. Our job is always to meet our own expectation. It’s all we can do anyway.

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No Bad Writers 4:48

38 weeks ago4:48

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Whatever we think about other writers, we think about ourselves. Never call an author whose work you don’t enjoy “bad.” It’s only a matter of time before you look at your own stories and believe they stink and that you have no talent.

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You Don’t Have to Listen to Criticism 5:24

39 weeks ago5:24

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Getting feedback from writing groups, beta readers, agents, and editors is just fine. But once the story or book is finished, it’s okay not to listen to criticism. It’s time to move on, and hopefully hear from the readers who liked what you’ve done.

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Every Choice Matters 5:19

40 weeks ago5:19

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Sometimes in life it can feel like our choices don’t matter. But writing teaches us that all our choices matter, the big ones and the small ones. Those decisions we make are the focus for our creative power.

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Asking The Right Questions 5:03

41 weeks ago5:03

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Writing is all about asking questions and waiting for answers. But we don’t want to ask the wrong questions, the ones to which we only want one answer, like: Am I any good?

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Writing and What You Can Never Be Taken From You 4:32

42 weeks ago4:32

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Writing has taught me like nothing else that what matters most in life can’t be given to me or taken from me.

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What’s The Good Part? 5:46

43 weeks ago5:46

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Stories can help tune us to the good part of life, what always exists beneath the surface. The good part is why life is worth living, though it’s easy to forget as we focus on the dull business of mere survival. It’s always worth it to remind yourself and your readers why we’re really here.

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What Writing Taught Me About Being With Other People 5:46

44 weeks ago5:46

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Just as we can’t worry what people think of our stuff while we’re writing, so too the best way to be with others in social situations is to not try to please them.

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The Best Writing Strategy 5:49

45 weeks ago5:49

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Very simple: show up, be curious, be interested, be open, and the details necessary to tell your story will come to you. Do your job and let the rest take care of itself.

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Embrace Your Uniqueness And Others Will Too 5:12

46 weeks ago5:12

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It’s not anyone else job to accept what is unique about you or your work. That’s your job. Once you have, however, others will have to agree with you.

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Give It Away 4:51

47 weeks ago4:51

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Our readers' lives and preferences influence how they receive our story. We can’t control that. So, we must give it away, metaphorically, and trust the right people will find it.

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Success As A Measure Of Interest 6:57

48 weeks ago6:57

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If we’re not sincerely, authentically, personally interested in what we’re writing, we won’t succeed. As creative people, we must constantly ask ourselves, “What am I actually interested in? What do I care about?”

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Forgive Your Mistakes 6:16

49 weeks ago6:16

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The only way to learn is from experience, and everyone has to experience something to learn not to do it. As creative people, we will make mistakes, and plenty of them. The only way not to be afraid of those mistakes is to forgive them in yourself and everyone.

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The Meaning Is Always In You 5:16

50 weeks ago5:16

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The page is blank. You may be writing about the world you’ve experienced, but the meaning you find for your stories always starts in you – nowhere else.

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Trust What Comes Easily 4:24

51 weeks ago4:24

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Artists can start believing too much in struggle and in what they find difficult. However, what comes most easily to us is usually the expression of our natural genius, where our interest wants to go.

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Inviting Inspiration 6:50

1 year ago6:50

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Writing requires inspired ideas. But we can’t demand them, can’t use our craft to manufacture them. But we can practice putting ourselves into the frame of mind that allows and invites them.

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Find Your Intellectual Family 6:25

1 year ago6:25

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As Richard Bach pointed out: writers aren’t looking for an editor or a publisher, but a member of their intellectual family. They’re out there, but you have to believe they exist to find them.

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Trust Your Reader 5:38

1 year ago5:38

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We need our readers to fill in what we leave out; it’s what really finishes a story. This means we have to trust them, even though sometimes they don’t make the connections we hope.

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Nothing Better Than Joy 4:52

1 year ago4:52

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As Beethoven no doubt knew – there’s nothing better than joy, and creativity teaches us again and again it’s always inside of us, never outside of us.

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The Real Value of Being an Author 5:25

1 year ago5:25

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The time I learned why being an author is so valuable, and how we can use this authority to allow people to believe the stories they actually want to believe.

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When Our Pain Isn’t Real 5:24

1 year ago5:24

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A true story about how physical pain and suffering taught me a lot about all suffering. If I’m honest, most of it wasn’t real, wasn’t necessary.

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Writing As A Cure for Loneliness 5:27

1 year ago5:27

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If you’re like me, you prefer to be alone while you write. But you’re also never lonely, at least not when it’s going well. That’s because loneliness is feeling disconnected from that to which you always want connection. Writing is one way to practice that connection.

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When The Best Plan Is No Plan 6:30

1 year ago6:30

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Just like you can’t know every sentence in a paragraph before you write it, so too you can’t know how your career or life will unfold. As creative people, we must be more interested in what interests us most, and less on how we will sell it, publish it, or monetize it.

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You’re the Author of Your Life 6:44

1 year ago6:44

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Sometimes editing is hard because all those passages we reread and don’t like remind us of the parts of our life that seem to have happened to us but we know on some level we created ourselves. Writing is a chance to practice making choices on purpose, to choose what we actually want, to always be the author of our lives.…

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The Intentional Arc 7:22

1 year ago7:22

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Every story has three arcs: The Physical, The Emotional, and The Intentional. The last is the most important – why you’re telling the story, the gift you’re giving the reader. Until you know it, you don’t know what the story is really about.

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Experience, Not Results 6:22

1 year ago6:22

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It’s easy for writers to put all their attention on results – the finished book, the contract, the sales – and start believing that the experience of writing, what we’re actually doing, doesn’t really matter. Not only does your experience matter, it’s the only thing that matters.

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Writing and Stage Fright 6:36

1 year ago6:36

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Writing can be like a performance since we never really know what’s going to happen when sit down at the desk. We must trust we’ll know what to write when our attention meets the story, when we’re actually present with our creative desire.

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Why Do We Write? 5:58

1 year ago5:58

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It’s not for the money, though that’s always nice. And it’s not for the recognition or praise. No, it’s always so we can receive what we want to give. That’s the real creative transaction we all crave.

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The Hard Part: Rewriting 5:56

1 year ago5:56

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This one of the most common hard parts for writers is taking that messy first draft and turning into something we’d actually like to share with others. The key is asking the right questions while we rewrite, the ones that keep us in the seat of our creativity.

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Finding Your Voice 6:48

1 year ago6:48

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Our voice is not an expression of some discovered style, or of talent, or intelligence, but rather our unique interest. Let your work express that , what you actually care about in a story, in a scene, in a sentence, and your authentic voice will come through naturally.

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The Importance Of Small Successes 7:33

1 year ago7:33

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The big successes – the completed book, the published novel, the good sales – are always an accumulation of little successes. Yet writers often don’t appreciate those small successes because they don’t think they really count until the big ones have been met.

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Finding Your Readers 6:56

1 year ago6:56

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Sometimes writers feel like beggars asking for handouts as they submit their work. But we’re not. We’re not asking for anything, we’re giving something. We just need to remember the value of what it is we’re offering.

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Getting Out of Your Own Way 6:59

1 year ago6:59

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Whether you use this language or not, you know what it feels like when you get out of your own way. But how do we do that? The key is getting curious, asking questions in which we’re sincerely interested, and then accepting any answer that comes.

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Failure And The Blank Page 6:26

1 year ago6:26

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Sometimes sitting down and having no ideas, no inspiration, can feel like the kind of nothingness we picture when we imagine failure. Except there is no such thing as nothing. We just can’t yet see what is there.

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Writing As Self-Acceptance 6:44

1 year ago6:44

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All rejection starts at home. First, the writer rejects herself by worrying what someone will think of her work, then the public rejects the book because it doesn’t feel authentic. Our job is to satisfy no one but ourselves. Success will naturally follow.

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How To Follow Your Story 8:20

1 year ago8:20

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A listener wanted to know how to get her story to “settle down” so she could tell it. The real discipline of writing is learning how to tell the difference between forcing and allowing, to know whether we’re following an idea that belongs in the story we’re telling, or simply starting a new one.

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The Success Already Within You 6:05

1 year ago6:05

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Just like your stories are within you as they’re being written, so too the success you so desire. Don’t look for it in the world around you. You won’t really see it. Go inside, and find it where it lives.

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Finding Time To Write 7:11

1 year ago7:11

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Can’t find the time to write? Your life too busy, what with the job and the kids and just being tired at the end of the day? The question probably isn’t, “Where do I find the time to write?” But, “Is writing a waste of time?” It’s not, but sometimes it can seem that way.

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Focus on Success, Never on Failure 6:35

1 year ago6:35

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In which I answer a question from a listener who wants to follow his muse but sees so much failure around him. Does it really work. What if it leads you astray?

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Writing As A Cure For Boredom 6:04

1 year ago6:04

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If you’re ever feeling uninterested in life or yourself or your work, remember you’re just looking in the wrong place for what you want.

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What Falling In Love Taught Me About Writing 6:02

1 year ago6:02

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The story of how I reconnected with the woman is who is now my wife is also the story about how I learned where all stories come from. Everything authentic begins and ends with an alive stillness that requires nothing, but is always creating.

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Emotional Mastery 7:09

1 year ago7:09

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It’s not enough to learn our craft, we also have to practice emotional mastery – finding our inherent confidence every single time we sit down to write. It’s always there, finding it anew every day requires practice. Episode 7: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2204720/episodes/13084129

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Know Your Job 6:39

2 years ago6:39

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The biggest difference between most beginning and more seasoned writers, is the experienced author understands how little they actually need to know to start writing. Don’t try to do the Muse’s job. Instead, collaborate with her to tell your story.

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Your Jealousy Is Dishonest 6:51

2 years ago6:51

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You may see the success other people have had, and think you want it – but you don’t. You’ve only ever wanted your success, the same as you’ve only ever wanted to live your life.

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Your Interest Is Enough 7:25

2 years ago7:25

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You don’t really need to know how to do it, or where to go, or what should come next. All you really need to know is that you’re interested – in the book, the career, in the relationship. Trust that your interest is enough and you’ll be guided by it.

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The Scary Power of the Imagination 6:42

2 years ago6:42

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A true story of how my imagination invented a nightmare and just a quickly dispelled it. A reminder to only pay attention to what inspires and soothes us.

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Your Passion is Practical 6:19

2 years ago6:19

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Doing what love is always the most practical choice, even if you don’t know where you’re going or how you’ll succeed. Forcing anything is guaranteed failure.

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That's Entertainment 5:34

2 years ago5:34

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Entertaining our readers is not about spoon-feeding “what they want,” but offering them what we value, what we want to share, in a way that best allows them to receive it.

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No Excuses 5:18

2 years ago5:18

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When we make an excuse for why we don’t have the time to write or why can’t get published, we’re describing a reality we don’t want to live in. When we stop making these excuses, we give ourselves a chance to see a different, and better, reality.

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Stay Humble 5:30

2 years ago5:30

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Humility isn’t saying you’re not a good writer, or that someone is better than you. It’s about learning how to be grateful for what provides inspiration, and what answers the questions that keep us up at night.

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How You Feel Is The Only Result That Matters 5:03

2 years ago5:03

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Care about how you feel while you write. You always want to feel good and you never want to feel bad. Thinking some result out in the future is more important than how you feel in the present is a recipe for procrastination and failure.

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The Intentional Arc 6:02

2 years ago6:02

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Every story has three arcs: the Physical Arc, the Emotional Arc, and the Intentional Arc. The Intentional, why the story is being told, is the most important, but often the hardest to find. Yet without it, the story has no meaning or center.

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Your Unique Aesthetic 7:11

2 years ago7:11

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We spend our lives trying to satisfy it, in the books we read and the books we write. The only reason you don’t like something you’ve written is because it doesn’t satisfy that aesthetic. Our trouble starts when we forget that.

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Writing is Listening 6:36

2 years ago6:36

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It’s not thinking. Our job is to have questions we’re interested in, ask them of our imagination, and then trust that the answer will come.

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Why Praise Is Addictive 7:28

2 years ago7:28

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Writing and sharing our work can be as normal as breathing. Unless, that is, we hold breath as we wonder if other people will like it.

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There Is Only One Right Answer. 5:46

2 years ago5:46

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This isn’t school. This isn’t a math class. When you write fearlessly, there’s only one correct answer, and only you will ever know it.

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Why Words Matter. 5:46

2 years ago5:46

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As writers we have to care as much about the words we use when we describe our own life and experiences, as we do when we describe a scene in our stories.

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Accepting Rejection 6:42

2 years ago6:42

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Rejection, saying no to something, is a part of the creative process, not just what happens sometimes when people don’t like our stuff.

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Fearless Marketing Pt 1: Remember Why You Love Your Book 7:05

2 years ago7:05

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You can’t read anyone’s mind, you can’t make anyone buy anything – and you don’t have to. Just share what is so awesome about your story.

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The Only Two Questions a Writer Should Ask. 6:44

2 years ago6:44

6:44

Writing is all about questions. We ask them, and something else answers. Ask the wrong question, and we’ll only get into trouble.

Fearless Writing with Bill Kenower

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End Procrastination Pt. 2: Getting in the mood. 5:56

2 years ago5:56

5:56

It’s rare to be in the mood when you start. Your first and most important job is to get into that relaxed, curious, receptive state of mind, and then start writing.

Fearless Writing with Bill Kenower

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Ending Procrastination Pt. 1: The Inner Critic. 6:42

2 years ago6:42

6:42

The inner critic isn’t going to help you. He or she is only the voice of fear.

Fearless Writing with Bill Kenower

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What Is Fear? 6:36

2 years ago6:36

6:36

When we can learn to see fear as guidance, we can use the experience to help us stay in the moment, where all stories are actually told.

Fearless Writing with Bill Kenower

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There's No Such Thing as Good Writing, Part 2. 7:18

2 years ago7:18

7:18

There’s no book or author you have to read. You find what you need to read just like you’ll find the story you’re meant to tell.

Fearless Writing with Bill Kenower

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There's No Such Thing as Good Writing, Part 1. 5:21

2 years ago5:21

5:21

Bill debunks this very believable myth that actually interferes with us doing our best work.

Fearless Writing with Bill Kenower

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You Don't Actually Care What Anyone Thinks of Your Stuff 5:37

2 years ago5:37

5:37

I know you think you do. We all think we do. But we don't.

Fearless Writing with Bill Kenower

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A Writer's Worst Fear 4:48

2 years ago4:48