G is for GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY

     PULP FICTION 

                   late 1800’s – mid 1950’s

Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American lawyer and author. Though best known for the Perry Mason  series of detective stories, he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces, as well as a series of non-fiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico. Gardner wrote 85 Perry Mason detective stories. The Case of the Velvet Claws was his first.

Gardner also published under numerous pseudonyms, including A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray and Robert Parr.

G also stands for GOOFY GUTTER stories 

Always, 
Em-Musing

K?

The alphabet is a journey of 26 letters...

Each one begins a story.
Your first time…
Were you giddy?
Where were you?
Did you wonder where it would lead?
What happened next?
Kiss!
I’m talking about your first kiss.
Well, those early day of editing…
Felt like my first kiss…
(well, kinda. NOTHING is like a first kiss)
I was giddy…
And I didn’t know where it would lead.
Sure, I had my fantasies...
But fantasies only satisfy to a point.
I had to get back to reality...
And plan what I needed to do next...
Of course. it was..
Send a query letter…
Again. 
But according to Alice the editor...
My current query missed one critical element...
I still had to figure out what in the…
He, he, he “L” will finish this tale..

Always, Em-Musing

C ME

Each letter of the alphabet begins a story

Today it's "C's" turn...

When I first began writing...

It was bliss...

I did anything I wanted to...

Used Colorful adjectives...

Strew the pages with driving adverbs...

And I didn't know what backstory was...

Or P.O.V., or plotting...
Or the difference between literary...
And commercial fiction (really)...

I just wrote.

Then one day I learned about query letters...
And I submitted. And believe it or not...

An agent requested the full.

Woo HOOOOO!
Within a few weeks though she blasted back a rejection...

"Your manuscript is unedited, we don't have time, yada yada...

OUCH!
But after the shock, came the writing seminars...
And books and books and books on Craft, and...
Ah ha! Got it!
Well...almost...
"D" will have to tell you the rest of the story. 
How about you? When did you learn the craft of writing?

Always, Em-Musing