I often find myself going back and reading through a book that I’ve read through many times. The Right to Write by Julia Cameron is one of these books. It’s one of the books that has given me so much motivation. It’s the book that motivated me to create this website, keep writing when I didn’t feel like it, and so much more. Morning Musings. One of the first things Julia writes about is very simple and if you haven’t…
I was sitting down yesterday attempting to finish the first story for Del Plazo. Everything is written except the first story and the appendices and I just cannot focus. This is when the idea for Chaos was born. What is Chaos? By definition: complete disorder and confusion. Behavior so unpredictable as to appear random, owing to great sensitivity to small changes in conditions. Chaos to me is what I assume all writer’s go through on a daily basis. My brain…
I created and edited my first anthology, Thirty Days, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Shorts in 2020. The journey began after I wrote thirty fresh short stories over the course of thirty days. For the annual Literal Challenge: Like the Prose. Author’s feverishly write a story after being given a prompt. After thirty days you have thirty new babies to share with the world. I am a sucker for any challenge and knew that this would be a fun one….
The moment I woke up yesterday morning I knew a new day had dawned. I felt a lot lighter then the day before, more motivated to delve back into the throes of editing. I hadn’t really stopped the editing process, I had just slowed down. It wasn’t enjoyable, it was starting to feel like a bad day at work, but the boss wasn’t being helpful in the very least. The boss was being negative and not constructive. Dreamwalker was a…
It’s been a little over six months since my last post. I have spent these months writing, getting comfortable with my new career and most importantly working on the new fantasy anthology, The Chronicles of Del Plazo: The Vallejo. I had no idea that this novel; whose roots began during NaNoWriMo 2019 as the Alexia Chronicles, would grow into such a massive fantasy novel. I can’t even begin to wrap my head around how big the world has become. Thirteen…
The Beginning July 1st I woke up, finished, and submitted my 30th story in thirty days. Wow, thirty stories in thirty days! Now what? Immediately I knew that I was going to reach out to all of the authors that had also just completed the challenge to see if they wanted to come together and create an anthology that we could share a few of the short stories that we just wrote over the last thirty days with the world!…
Thirty days, thirty new stories continues with the second part of the Alexia trilogy. These stories are written, edited, and submitted in under 36 hours, so keep in mind that there may be POV issues, time line errors, etc. If you notice any of that please feel free to leave a comment below. Alexia Chronicles – Part Two Del PLazo Written by: Renee Schnebelin Del Plazo weather was just as hot and humid as Alexia remembered.. The drive through the…
The Literal Challenge’s, Like the Prose, began on June 1st. Thirty stories to complete in thirty days. Piece of cake, right? I had good intentions on doing a blog post per day but became bogged down doing some other very important things on top of writing a short story per day. So here I am on day eleven and finally found some time to share one of my short stories. Yesterday we were given the task to write a trilogy….
Day fifteen of 29 Plays Later asked us to write a set in complete darkness and my mind immediately went to sleepwalking, sleep paralysis, and night terrors. All of which are themes in my Emma project. Thus far I have been amazed at how much I have grown as a writer. I have learned so many new things about writing plays, and what the Grand Guignol is. But first I wanted to share my script from day fifteen titled: When…
A Play a Day Should Be Easy Right? It is day 6 of the #29PlaysLater challenge and it is challenging to say the least. One of my resolutions for this year was to learn a new craft each month, so February I am learning how to write a play by the seat of my pants….literally. I have been getting up every day around 5 am to tackle an entire script from beginning to the close of the curtain. It seemed…