Yeah, I totally know what you mean. And it's so hard, after you know what it feels like to have that "one" that you are so totally into and that readers like and everything. It's like, how do I top that one? How do I create that magic again? I have no answers for that LOL. But it'll come...
I tend to forget this, but I think I went through a little mini-slump like this the year before I started Broken. I finished a story called Years of Grace towards the end of 2001, and I didn't start another novel of my own for five months... which, at the time, was like, whoa! Five months seemed like a really long time. I did write stuff in between there... that's when we started Code Blue, and I wrote some short stories and stuff, but it was weird to not have a novel of my own to work on, cause I always had. I don't remember what my problem was then... maybe a lack of ideas? I dunno. But I worked on small projects here and there, and then eventually I got a new story idea and wrote You'll Never Walk Alone... and then a couple months after that, it was Broken, and I was set for five years LOL. You just never know when the "right" idea will hit, but it doesn't always happen when you want it to LOL. But it will happen at some point.
