I am not pleased with the FLUFF I've been writing! Actually, I'm rathered appalled. Cliche, predictable, flowery, saccharine.... My characters are paper-thin and could've walked off a sitcom rerun. They have no substance whatsoever. What a buncha junk. What literary shame. I don't think I've ever made myself out to be such a crappy writer. Ugh. It just makes me cringe. I know exactly why, too. Because a) I'm writing in the 3rd POV. b) "Historical" setting. c) I'm writing about attraction! Now, it would be different if I were writing 1st POV, present-day, woman-vs.-self with heavy psychological and social conflict...but country-girl-smitten-by-dashing-Yankee is a Dollar Store scenario. shudder.