Zetta Hunt

  I’m happy to report I’m well underway on a new story. It took me long enough. I tried to get one out before this, but things just didn’t work out that way. I knew if I didn’t get down to work on something, before long, another year (or two) would pass with nothing published. I didn’t want that to happen again. The problem lies in my process. I often tangle myself up trying to figure out the best way to approach a story. There are times I want to do a full outline of a story, other times I just want to dive in and see where I end up. More often than not, I start out strong with either approach, then somehow problems set in. Before I know it, I’m abandoning whatever it was I was working on and moving on to something else. It becomes an endless cycle. The only way I break out of this is to make myself sit down and dig in with determination. That’s where I’m at right now. Usually, it’s a middle road I end up traveling on. I do some back story on my characters, then write up a very br...

  Sometimes I’m lazy. I’d like to think it happens to us all. Maybe it’s human nature, or maybe sometimes I just can’t be bothered. This is something I’ve been thinking about recently in my quest to be more productive and to get my writing career back on track. I realize that there are many times when being lazy is NOT at all justifiable. Go figure. Although, sometimes it is, just ask any cat, but I digress. Lately I’ve been exploring different themes for this humble site of mine. I found several that were nice, but there was a problem. Most of the ones I tried needed a picture in the post. Otherwise, a gawd awful ugly photo placeholder with an even uglier camera image is inserted when no photo is present. The description of one theme I looked at even said, requirements: At least one image per post At least one label per post Really? Well, that’s asking a lot. Especially when you’re feeling like a lazy slug. But then it got me to thinking, is putting a photo in every post such a b...

Old habits die hard, says the old cliche. Like most cliches, there is always truth in it. This last winter I did pretty good. I started blogging again; I wrote and released a new short romance story. At last! I’m on track. . . until I wasn’t. The writing began not to go well, again. I decided that if I updated the look and feel of this blog, it would spur me into action. Now it is April and my last post was in January. Obviously, it didn’t work out too well for me. Day by day, I realized I was slipping back down into the old habits I so desperately wanted to get away from. Old habits die hard. Trying to pull myself back up, I visited this site. The design changes had seemed elegant and refined at the time I did them. Before I finished all of it, I wondered on to other things. The poor blog forgotten, again. Now the design seems cold, almost dark somehow, mostly lifeless. Maybe I should do some more changes? Or is this me procrastinating again? Maybe. Or maybe it’s me trying to rekindle...

This is just a quick post to let you know I'm making progress on another story. Sadly the progress has been slower than I would have liked. Mostly life stuff getting in the way. I'm hoping to get this next story out either by the end of the month or the beginning of February. This time I'll try and give notice before it comes out, instead of like last time and posting, 'oh by the way, here's a story.' In other news, I'll be making design changes to this site. In fact, I may have already started on them by the time you read this. If you've been following along with some of my older posts, then you might recall that I've considered making some design changes to this site some time ago. I plan on starting on those this week. So if you happen by and things look a little wonky, that is why. I've thought of changing platforms, but honestly, I don't really have a real reason to do so. I use Blogger for this site, and I have fun with it and it's ...

Can you believe it’s almost 2023? I can’t. For those who celebrate Christmas, I hope it was a good one. I know for many here in the U.S. it wasn’t that great because of the frigid weather we had. Lucky for me, I had a nice warm blanket and a few cats to keep me warm. Now, the New Year is upon us. I often like to take the week between Christmas and New Year to come up with goals for the year. Sometimes I start out strong in January, hoping to make the best of the year, sometimes not. By February, I’ve slacked off. Come March, I wonder where I went wrong. This year, my life is in total chaos. It started a little over two months ago. Even though I’m a private person, I may write about some of what is going on in my personal life in future posts. Mainly because it might help others. But for now, I’m in a place where I wonder what’s the point in trying to set goals for the coming year when so much is uncertain in my life right now? Except, reviving this blog and writing a new story has real...

 I know, about time, huh? I've had a lot going on in my life lately, stuff that may become the subject of upcoming posts. Through it all, I managed to finish a story at last. This one is a reverse Beauty and the Beast story. Where it's the heroine who thinks she's the beast. So I present - Finding Beauty A handsome billionaire who doesn’t do relationships. A scarred women who knows a man like him is not for her. I buy failing businesses, turn them around, sell them for a profit. It’s what I do. Except, for one. One company I’ve held onto the longest, because of Amanda. How did a sexy computer nerd get to me? I don’t do relationships. Been there, done that. Amanda thinks she’s anything but beautiful because of her scarred face. She’s wrong. I want to show her how wrong she is, but being with her makes me long for things I’ve sworn off. She thinks I’m the beauty and she’s the beast. Can I prove her wrong and still keep from falling for her? Finding Beauty is a stand ...

  I’ve got a rough draft of a new story finished. Now comes the fun part of trying to make it better. And it is fun, or at least I think it is. I’m also getting back to posting here regularly. I enjoy writing these posts. Don’t know if they're actually interesting to others, but it’s out there just in case someone somewhere wants to read all my ramblings. Some days I think about challenging myself and see if I could post daily for a set length of time. Although I’m not sure if I could find that much to say. I guess I won’t know till I try, but for now, I’m more about finding focus. There are many reasons I’ve suddenly reappeared after some time away. One thing is I live with and take care of an elderly family member at the moment. That has become stress city in the past few months. Writing helps soothe that stress away. At least for a short time. The other thing is I enjoy doing this, even though I feel like I’m struggling with everything. Sometimes I struggle to get words down. Wr...