Zetta Hunt

Many people are really up in a roar about everything happening over at Twitter. I guess I can understand, somewhat. I’m more or less an outsider looking in at the situation. I’ve never tweeted. Not once in my life. Shocking, I know. If you read my About page, then you should know that I’m not on other social media outlets. Why? Because I totally suck at them. For whatever reason, they have never held my interest. I have tried to be more active on Facebook (under my real name) but it never lasts. I get bored, and that’s it. Every once in a while I might read tweets from people, or Facebook posts, or Instagram posts of some of my favorite authors, but I have no desire to take part in being an active member of those sites. Honestly, I do not know why. It’s the way I am. This may change one day. Who knows, I might find a platform I like and that will be it. I’ll be hooked. Stranger things have happened. Right now, I find it amusing? Interesting? Not sure what the right word is. Many peopl...

 I know I’ve been silent. A year ago, I had every intention of getting another story written and out into the world. Obviously, it didn’t happen. Anyone who might still be out there visiting this blog, I’m still here. Many times, I thought of abandoning this pen name. Starting over with something else. Yet, when the domain name came up for renewal, I wasn’t sure what to do, so I let it renew for another year. Last year when I wrote an update , I had every intention of getting another story written. In fact, I had the story started. But it turned into a mess and I wanted to get it done before the holidays. Those two things caused a great deal of frustration and stress for me, to where I abandoned the story and moved on. THE PROBLEM AT HAND I’m certain my key problem is I have an issue with perfectionism. Which honestly seems weird to me. I’ve never viewed myself as a perfectionist. In most areas of my life, I’m a ‘good enough’ type of person. Or a ‘well, at least I tried.’ But with ...

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...

 I've got another Christmas story for you. Like the last story, it's a romance and not quite as steamy as my other stories, but there's still enough sexy steam to keep you warm in this holiday season. This will be the last Christmas story for this year. Originally, I'd planned to do four stories. Alas, it is not meant to be this year. This last story took me longer than I'd planned and time was of the essence.  I mentioned in a previous post about my lack of time management. Was I ambitious thinking I could do four stories this month? Maybe, maybe not. I learn a lot with each new story I write and these past few weeks have been a learning experience for sure. I'll explore this more in depth in future blog posts. In the end, I feel if I hadn't been over ambitious to some extent, I may have only gotten one story out this month.  Speaking of stories. I present to you - The Gift of Holly MAKE A WISH UPON A SNOWFLAKE DURING THE HOLIDAYS AND IT MIGHT COME TRUE! H...