MO JOE PLEASE!!!

Five months ago…

I gave up my 2 cups of coffee a day habit.

(for a medical treatment)

First week I experienced dull, thuddy headaches…

Eh, not so bad.

But the caffeine withdrawal was a cakewalk…

Compared to the emotional & mental withdrawal.  

My feelings were obviously unexplainable…

To both family and friends.  

“Drink tea instead, some said.

Not the same! And besides, it also has caffeine.

Maybe it’s for the best, others said.

Best? For what possible reason? I countered.

Quit making such a fuss about this.  

Hello?

You’re not getting it, people!

I didn’t just lose coffee…

I LOST MY MOJO

My writing has taken a nosedive!

My reason to get up at 4:30 is gone!

My sitting in the predawn hours…

Drinking, thinking, thinking, drinking…

WAS OVER!

FINITE!

And then to make it worse…

I’d walk into my kitchen…

Where my coffee maker…

And French Press beckoned me…

No taunted me!

We’ll brew you a nice cuppa……

C’mon, one cup can’t hurt…

Think of the simmering rich aroma…

Of your favorite Havana blend…

You know you want it…

And I do, I do! Lordy I do!

And in two days…

I will, I will! 

YAY! !  WOO HOOO! !  

Finally, I’ll be able to drink a cup of Joe again!

What about you?

Is coffee your elixir? 

If not… 

What's in your cup when you write?

Always,

Em-Musing

I'M INSECURE, PLEASE EXCUSE ME

Phew!

Been travelling since mid-May…

No excuses, Em

Didn’t bring my laptop with me…

You could have

So needless to say…

I missed two Wednesdays…

Of posting for the Insecure Writer’s Group.

And then I’ve had visitors…

Oh, now you’re gonna blame your grandkids?

And totally forgot.

Not true. You remembered, but after the fact.

And then I’ve been recouping…

And you think other writers aren’t busy?

And almost forgot today—again!

So here it is…

My eleventh hour post.

Not the best…

But posted none-the-less.

How ‘bout you?

Is it hard to keep up sometimes?

Always,

Em-Musing
P.S. Can't find the logo for Insecure Writer's Group
so I'm posting anyway. 

CENTURY OLD HORROR STORY

In April…

I participated in the A-Z Challenge…

My theme was Pulp fiction.

One of the authors I highlighted…

Was H.P. Lovecraft…

Who now is regarded…

As the most significant…

20^th century author in the horror genre.

Success should have happened in his lifetime…

But it didn’t...

He was virtually unknown…

And only published in Pulp magazines.

Never able to support himself…

From earnings as author and editor…
Lovecraft saw commercial success increasingly elude him…

Because he lacked the confidence and drive to...
PROMOTE HIMSELF! (source: Wikipedia)
And that in a nutshell is my insecurity. 

But when I think about it…

I'm surprised that way back then…

Authors had to promote.

I always thought…

They had an agent and a publisher…

Who would do all the promotions…

So authors could just write, write, write, write. Right?

Guess even back then…

If an author wanted sales…

It was all about promotion.

And what about you?

Is the process of promotion…

Easy, hard, or not even a concern for you?

Got any tips?

Always,

Em-Musing

baZINGA!

PULP FICTION late 1800s – mid 1950s

The A-Z Challenge is over!  Yippie-ki-yo-ki-yay!  And the for the last roundup it's Zane Grey's Western Pulp & Zorro...plus a few others.

Pearl Zane Grey (1872 – 1972), was an American dentist and author of stories idealising the American West, especially in pulp magazines.  




The American West of the 19th and 20th century was a rich setting for many adventure and action pulp stories. Some of the longest running and most popular of all the pulp fiction magazines were of the Western genre.  

There were more than 165 pulp magazines to choose from, such as Zane Grey's Western Story  
Magazine,Texas Rangers, and Ace High Weekly,

Zane Grey authored as many as 200 stories. 




The combination of westerns and romance produced one of the longest surviving pulps.

Hmm? Odd that the cover art has brutes and guns.

  

Zorro, the internationally famous hero, first appeared in the pages of the pulp magazine, Argosy All  Weekly. 

The Lone Ranger Magazine was pulp magazine published from April 1937 until November 1937. Each of the eight issues included a feature length Lone Range adventure written by Fran Striker. There were eight stories Striker wrote for the magazine. 

 

 Fran Striker (born Francis Hamilton      

Striker 1903 – September 4, 1962) was an American writer for radio and comics best known for creating the characters Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, and Sgt. Preston of the Yukon. 

                                

FYI - In Spanish Tonto means stupid. When

I saw it in the theater here in Mexico it was in English with Spanish sub-title and Tonto was changed to another word but I can't remember what it was.

Always, 
Em-Musing