K S-T asked C.C. Hunter:

I would like to know more about your writing process. Do you just sit down and write? Do you have a designated writing space? Is there anything you do to get you in a "writing mood"?

C.C. Hunter I know some authors love to go to Starbucks to write. But if I went to Starbucks, I'd be easedropping on conversations and not writing. I have an office in my house. I usually write there. It's like this room means work and when I'm in this chair, I can focus more. I have a wrap around porch and sometimes I like to sit out there and work, but if a pretty bird flies by, I'm watching the bird, not my keyboard.

As for mood, in this room, I'm surrounded by books. My books, my friend's books and books that I want to read. Sometimes when I feel as if I've written myself in a corner, I will get in my hot tub to brainstorm. Some days I'm all wrinkled from staying in there too long.

I'm what I would call a pantser. Meaning, I write by the seat of my pants. I'm starting a new book right now, and I only had a few things worked out in my head when I sit down to start writing. But as I write, the story starts to flow.

I usually write about eight to ten hours a day. Yes, I'm a workaholic. It takes me around two to three months to write a book. Sometimes four. But because I also write romantic suspense books as Christie Craig, I try to write three to four books a year. This year I just finished the first book in another young adult series, about a girl who can see ghosts, The Mortician's Daughter. Which will be out October 31st. I just finished an adult romantic suspense book called, Don't Close your Eyes. And I'm starting on my new young adult book that I'm calling Plucked.

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