Annemarie Plenert

Author in progress

Annemarie’s Blog

This is where I describe my writing process, post updates, and share various thoughts and opinions.

  • The part of starting a novel that comes between the ideas/vibes and the word vomit/terrible first draft is the part where I need to take the vibes and mash them into some sort of shape. There are many ways to…

  • Good news! I have written some words. They are terrible. Right now my goal is terrible words, so this is excellent progress. What I have found in my previous novel writing attempts is that I have to get over my…

  • how my story babies begin

  • in which the author begins again

  • As I once again resuscitate my website, I decided to make a list of my current favourite things and/or hyperfixations. Some of these are things about which I could easily write many words, and some are just my personal trends.…

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  • September: sweater weather and sharpened pencils. I think I’ve written everywhere I write about the magic of early fall and the back to school feeling that goes with it, the vibrance of the changing leaves that signify the coming chill,…

  • I was working on another YA fantasy novel, my third. I like it a lot. I like the characters, I like the setting, I like the plot. It’s fun. But I got an itch to try something else, something different,…

  • I finally heard back from the queries I sent out for my finished novel, and they’re all form rejections. Every single one thanks me for considering them but my work isn’t a good fit and they wish me luck in…

  • A non-exhaustive list of things I’ve enjoyed lately. Books: Brazen by Pénélope Bagieu – a graphic (as in, novel, not as in content, although a little) non fiction book about rad women. I didn’t know a lot of them. I…