I’m not sure I’m allowed to say with or what or anything yet but I have a conditional contract and I’m excited.

Lately, I’ve been having those writing blues. You know the ones. Where you think everything you write sucks. For me I was feeling that my writing might be technically (ie grammar) good but not exciting enough. I write, for the most part, sweet contemporary romance. No werewolves, no vampires, no hanging from the chandelier (as someone else put it) love scenes. I am working on a romantic suspense but even still I wonder if my writing is too nice. Does anyone want “nice” anymore? Why does “nice” sound like such a bad thing? They were talking about something like this over at Romancing the Blog the other day.

I was just at that point, where I thought maybe I should just stop writing for a while. I really thought I should step back and regroup. I was questioning everything and talking to another author about it (and sending seriously depressing emails to my poor CP). Then I got the email about the conditional contract. And so I sat there re-reading it. My dh told me to stop questioning everything and just accept it. Yeah, ok, I’m not that nuts :cuckoo:. Of course I’m going to accept it. It’s from a publisher that I like with editors I greatly admire.

So now I start the journey of editing myself into a full contract.   I wonder if I can turn “nice” into “incredible”?