Writing Research

Okay so I've been missing in action for a while. Guess I was more down about the rejection than I thought. I have been reading like crazy, Iris Johansen, Katie MacAlister and even some writing research books like Scene & Structure, and Beginnings, Middles and Ends. They helped me understand how to write better, but writer's block has jammed up my brain. I have these great little ideas for stories, but the minute I sit down to write it down I clam up. Like "yeah that is a great premise, Paula, but um,....what exactly are you planning on happening to your characters to carry the story along?" I have all these ideas, even funny titles (kind of play on words) but writing a synopsis for it makes my blood run cold. Maybe that fear of rejection, maybe just fear that I'm not a good writer and Night Stalker was a fluke. Could even be that my mind just doesn't have anything left in it to give to me. ARGH! It makes me want to scream. I want to write romance, but my brain screams horror and blood. Night Stalker managed to combine the two, but I just don't think I have another one in me. Hopefully my muse will return full force soon, otherwise I may be doomed to constantly wonder if I was a one-hit wonder. :-{