J.E. Hunter’s Blog

  • NaNo 2020: How’s Your NaNo Doing #2.

    I’m very happy to say that I’ve ‘won’ NaNoWriMo. I finished my 50,000 words the other day, which has pushed me well ahead of schedule in my goal to write 261,000 words in a year (I’m already half way there and I only started at the beginning of September). I’m not done the novel I Read more

  • NaNoWriMo 2020 Update: How is your NaNo doing?

    It’s almost halfway through NaNoWriMo 2020. If you decided to join me and many other writers this year and stay home and spend all of November writing a novel (maybe your first, maybe one of many), than hopefully you’re a good chunk of the way in by now. My NaNo is going great, though I Read more

  • NaNoWriMo 2020: Why We Should All Do It This Year

    Happy Day One of NaNoWriMo everyone! If you’ve been a reader of this blog for any amount of time, then you know that I’m an annual NaNo-er. My first NaNo was in 2006 – 14 years ago, and I’m doing it again this year with even more enthusiasm than I’ve had in some other years. Read more

  • What I’m Reading: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

    Book Review: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins Before I picked up this book, I read a few contradictory reviews and wasn’t sure that I would read it. There were plenty of diverging opinions about whether or not the world really needed this book. In the end, I decided that as I Read more

  • Weekly Photo Writing Prompt

    Send your favourite character to a Thanksgiving dinner. Describe how they see, smell, and taste the food. How does the dinner go for them? Write for ten minutes. Read more

  • How to Write 261,000 Words in a Year: Update #2

    My progress over the past couple of weeks has been spotty but great! I’m pushing to get a draft done, and I write best when I keep a draft flowing continuously for as long as possible, without taking breaks for side projects or rewriting. This is my novel writing process, it might not be everyone’s, Read more