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Fearless Writing with 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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- Fearless Writing with Bill Kenower
What’s The Point?
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes when we ask depressing questions like, “What’s the point?” or “Why should I bother?” it’s helpful to actually find an answer.
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It’s About What I Like, Not Who Likes Me
Send us Fan Mail Writing teaches that what or who we like is way more interesting and important than who likes us or our stories.
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Follow What You Love
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…
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Writing And Why Life Is Worth Living
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…
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Feel First, Write Second
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…
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What’s My Role In The Conflict?
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.
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The Truth Is Always Friendly
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…
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Go Slow With New Thoughts
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.
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What Do You Really Care About?
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
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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 or action you…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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?
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Jealousy is Misunderstood Desire
Send us Fan Mail It’s fine to be inspired by other people’s success, but remember you don’t actually want write their book any more than you want to live their…
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Waiting For A New Thought
Send us Fan Mail Every writer must practice waiting patiently for a new thought to arrive. We do it when we write, and we can do it when we don’t.
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No Mistakes
Send us Fan Mail There are no real mistakes in writing, no good and bad, just what belongs in your story and what doesn’t.
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Your Inner Manager
Send us Fan Mail Everyone has an inner manager who helps them organize their life. They’re super useful, but can’t help you write your story.
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We’re All On Assignment
Send us Fan Mail Whether you’re ghost writing or working entirely from your own inspiration, we’re all on assignment in one way or another.
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The 30-Minute Rule
Send us Fan Mail You don’t have to write for two or three hours a day to be a successful writer. Even 30 minutes a day can be enough to stay connected to your…
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Feel Successful Now
Send us Fan Mail Writing teaches us that how we feel is more important than anything. Don’t wait until you publish the book or win the award to feel…
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The Imagination Connection
Send us Fan Mail The imagination is so powerful, its connection to others is often as intimate as touch.
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Your Life is Enough to Tell Any Story
Send us Fan Mail You don’t have to have been homeless or abused or addicted to have a life full enough to tell any story.
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Opportunities Never Stop
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes it may seem like our opportunities have dried up, but that’s almost always because we have begun to doubt.
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Don’t Always Ask For Feedback
Send us Fan Mail There are times when feedback from an editor or friend or writing group is helpful. But not if you’re looking for validation. That has to come…
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When Collaboration Works
Send us Fan Mail Though most of us work alone, there are times when focused collaboration can free up our stuck thinking.
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Judge Your Writing, Not Other Writers
Send us Fan Mail Anything we think about other writers, we inevitably think about ourselves. Be kind to everyone, including yourself.
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In Times Like These, Do What You Love Anyway
Send us Fan Mail I know things are scary and crazy for a lot of us right now, but that shouldn’t mean you abandon doing the what you love. The world is always…
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Writing Isn’t Actually Hard
Send us Fan Mail Yes, there are times you don’t know the way forward, and yes, you will almost certainly experience rejection. But don’t tell yourself writing…
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The Power of Resolutions
Send us Fan Mail If you set your intentions before you begin anything new, whether a story or a year, you can start to develop new habits.
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The False Division Between Work and Fun
Send us Fan Mail As we grow up, it’s easy to start believing that work and fun can’t be one and the same. This may be true in some professions, but it…
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Take The Pressure Off And Find Your Voice
Send us Fan Mail Often, the biggest obstacle to finding our voice is the pressure we put on ourselves to be “good” or be acceptable. If you take the pressure…
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The Only Story I Tell
Send us Fan Mail All my stories end the same way: Life is friendly, and the natural relationship between people is love. The reason there are so many to tell…
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Your Job Isn’t Complicated
Send us Fan Mail Amuse, entertain, and inspire yourself, and mean what you say. If you can do that, the rest will take care of itself.
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How Writing Teaches Us to Care About Our Lives
Send us Fan Mail It’s easy to start thinking that the lives of all the people you care for are somehow more important than yours. Writing reminds us again and…
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Writing and the Perils of Adulthood
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the most difficult part of writing stems from the fact that we’re adults, and have become increasingly concerned with our own…
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The Hardest Habit I’ve Had to Break
Send us Fan Mail Where Fearless Writing began. It took reach a very dark place for me to understand how quietly addicted to praise and validation I was. Here’s…
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The Power of Patience
Send us Fan Mail Writing is often about waiting for the right story, the right scene, the right word. Learn to trust what you know is true about what works and…
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Thoughts Are Nothing and Everything
Send us Fan Mail A writer’s primary tool is thought. Every time we sit down to write, we practice choosing the ones that serve us, and the ones that don’t.
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Validate Yourself
Send us Fan Mail You can’t look for your validation from anyone other yourself, which you do every time you write a sentence that satisfies you.
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The Power Of Listening
Send us Fan Mail Creativity is very active, but all the stories and songs and poems that have ever been written began with listening, when artist heard the…
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A Writer’s Pep-Talk
Send us Fan Mail We all need one sometimes. It’s easy to lose track of why we do this, where our confidence comes from – so here you go. Enjoy!
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Writing And Our Own Happiness
Send us Fan Mail Nothing feels better than getting in the flow. Yet this fantastic experience requires nothing but the focus of own attention. A great reminder…
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The REAL Craft Of Writing
Send us Fan Mail Writing is about the search for the effortless path. Our job is to test for resistance with every scene, sentence, and word. When we meet it…
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What’s Waiting For You At The Desk?
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes we have a low-running fear of writing. We’ve created unfriendly story about what’s waiting for us at the desk. We have to change…