Goodreads asked Joel Hunter Gun:

How do you get inspired to write?

Joel Hunter Gun Inspiration to write hit me when I was about ten. So badly I wanted to write my own lyrics for a song, and I had so much inside of me that I wanted to get out. For several days I could do nothing. I could not figure out how to write something, seemingly, out of nowhere. I wondered how in the world people just come up with words and ideas that seem so powerful. I wondered if writers have something that others don't, and maybe never can have. Then one day, when it felt like my brain was about to explode, because I would not give up, inspiration hit me like I had stepped into another world. All of the sudden, thoughts and ideas came pouring out of my mind like crazy.

It has been that way ever since.

It wasn't until I was in my early twenties, after I had written thousands of song lyrics (that I still have locked inside a safe, right now) that I found my true calling with fiction writing. When that happened everything in my life seemed to come together. To me, writing has always been like a flaming bass drum that pounds deep inside my chest and the sound of it releases through my mind. Writing is sacred and powerful to me, and that is what inspires me; what drives me. I've been working for so many years now for no pay and for nothing but a burning desire to get the things out that scream inside of me. I'm so glad that things are now coming around. With my short story, Scarred for Life, that I have just released, I have given the world only a small taste of what is to come, and more will be coming with rapid succession. I've been a student for so long and only now do I feel that it's time to let that inspiration of my childhood live on.

So I guess my inspiration to write is inside of me. It always was. I've never had to get it. I only had to figure out how to let it out when I was young, and it has been driving me through life ever since.

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