Reply #39: There are a few writers of sappy trash who got burned out on it

[Warpy]

and transitioned to crime fiction trash, which is at least readable. Two of them managed to perfect their literary chops writing treacle and progress to writing crime fiction that is both interesting an hilarious. One is Janet Evanovich with her numbered series. I defy anyone to get through her first few books without laughing out loud at Grandma. The other is Dorothy Cannel, whose first few books are theme books, one of which was a sendup of the sick making stuff she used to write, "How to Murder the Man of your Dreams."

I guess it's a matter of where we find our bliss: the dream of falling in love or the dream of murdering him once we've been married to him for a decade or more.