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Fearless Writing with Bill Kenower

Bill Kenower

Weekly inspiration and advice on writing and creativity from the author of Fearless Writing and Everyone Has What It Takes.

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S4 · E170
Friday · 5 min
Why All Our Choices Matter
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 and action you take is an action.
S4 · E169
August 28 · 4 min
How Writing Teaches Us Who We Are
Send us Fan Mail Writing has saved me from despair and fear many times. Here’s a story of one such occasion.
S4 · E168
August 21 · 6 min
What You DON’T Need to Know Before You Start Writing
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.
S4 · E167
August 14 · 6 min
What’s the Best Way to Share Your Work?
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.
S4 · E166
August 7 · 4 min
What’s Your Story’s Gift?
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?
S4 · E165
July 31 · 4 min
The Story of Your Life
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.
S4 · E164
July 24 · 5 min
The Other Side of Discomfort
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.
S4 · E163
July 16 · 7 min
What's REALLY Essential?
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.
S4 · E162
July 10 · 6 min
How Rewards Can Demotivate Us
Send us Fan Mail 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.
S4 · E161
July 3 · 5 min
How Authors Give Us Permission
Send us Fan Mail 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.
S4 · E160
June 26 · 6 min
What REALLY Satisfies You?
Send us Fan Mail Whether it’s food, friendship, or writing, it’s always good to ask yourself what truly satisfies you? Sometimes the answer will surprise you.
S4 · E159
June 19 · 6 min
Why Procrastination Makes Sense
Send us Fan Mail 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.
S4 · E158
June 12 · 9 min
Fearless Marketing
Send us Fan Mail 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.
S4 · E157
June 5 · 6 min
Be an All-Day Artist
Send us Fan Mail 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.
S4 · E156
May 29 · 7 min
Knowing Where the Treasure Is
Send us Fan Mail 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.
S5 · E155
May 22 · 5 min
Writing And Improv
Send us Fan Mail 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.
S4 · E154
May 15 · 7 min
Know Why You Write
Send us Fan Mail 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.
S4 · E153
May 8 · 6 min
Don't Compare. Just Connect.
Send us Fan Mail 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.
S4 · E152
May 1 · 5 min
Your North Star
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes it’s hard to follow your own unique aesthetic. Though it serves as a North Star, unlike the one in the sky, only you can see it.
S4 · E151
April 24 · 5 min
Vampire Criticism
Send us Fan Mail Don’t invite your readers and critics into your creative house; don’t decide they can determine the value of your work, and all the things that you care most about.

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