Zetta Hunt

Sorry I've been silent most of the year. These things happen. So where have I been? Writing and failing, life getting in the way, and other time bandits who latched on to me. I might write some boring blog posts about some of this in the future, but not now. Right now I wanted to get out at least a brief post about a few things. First, in case any of you have noticed, the subscribe button that was once at the top of this site is gone. This site is hosted through Blogger and it used Feedburner to deliver blog posts via email. In July that particular Feedburner service ended. While I didn't have many subscribers, it'd still be nice for those who wish to receive posts via email to be able to do so. Like many others who use Blogger I've been researching alternatives to this, and I think I've found a good alternative. I'll let you all know when I have something set up. Second, I plan on doing some site changes. Hopefully this will go without hiccups, but if you come ...

  I’ve always wanted to outline a novel. I have books that present outlining systems for writers. These books attract me like bug-lights attract bugs. Unfortunately, my fate ends up being like those poor bugs flying toward the light and their doom. I think the reason I’m attracted to an in-depth outlining system is they promise a straightforward way to produce a great novel. These books break the entire writing process down into a neat and easy process. They also try to debunk the myths that outlining your story ahead of time will kill your creativity for the project. Maybe for some writer’s this is true. But as I’m finding out, not all of us. I did rough outlines for the last three stories I published. When I say rough, I mean a short sketch fit into a brief structure. And those stories have far exceeded my expectations, meaning more than one person actually read them. So I thought, alright, I must be an outliner after all. So I dove into one of these books on outlining. I came up...

So I thought I’d take some time to give you all a writing update. First off, I’m hard at work on my next story and with luck it’ll be out before the end of the month. At least that’s the goal right now. Second off, I’m slightly changing directions somewhat. I really enjoyed writing the two Christmas stories I put out in December. I was ambitious and actually had four stories planned. But by the time I finished The Gift of Holly, I realized there was no way I was going to get two more stories out and get ready for Christmas at the same time. Especially since I’d done nothing, and I mean nothing, to get ready for the holidays. But, as of now, I still plan on writing those other two stories and releasing them for the 2021 Christmas season. As I warned in a previous post (if you’ve been following along) they were not my usual steamy stuff. Originally, I meant for them to be, but they turned out the way they turned out. Not only did I have a great time writing them, but I was in shock when ...

  Here we are in 2021 already. I’m sure it relieves some people after everything that happened in 2020 and hoping for a better year this time around. Honestly, I can’t complain too much about 2020. This may surprise some, maybe others not so much. I was talking with a friend the other day, and we both listed the bright spots of the past year. I mean yes; it was a crappy year. Too many people lost jobs, and/or family members and close friends, a crazy, demented circus known as the U.S. election happened, lock downs, riots, etc. So some of you may wonder how I could find bright spots in all of that? I don’t consider myself an optimistic person although, over the past few years, I’ve been slowly trying to change that. So here is my list of 3 things I found great about 2020: 1. I took the leap and self-published some stories For the past two years or so, I’d given this serious consideration for many reasons. So I started writing stories, but they became unruly and I’d start another one...