How long can this go on?

 Ten days later and I am still struggling to finish the latest wip! The tale is nearly done but the word count is rather lower than I am used to. Perhaps it is really not necessary now to go the whole 70k words in a historical romance, for I have found a lot of books I have read lately in that genre have ended before I was quite ready for it.

Some of these stories now seem to rely on whole episodes describing sexual encounters - pages and pages of it! It's not that I'm 'disgusted of Chichester' complaining but the pages have an unhappy habit of being so like other author's attempts on the same subject that it becomes a tad boring. After all, there are only so many ways a couple can copulate and I'm beginning to feel cheated of story. 

But then again, perhaps the authors have found a similar problem with their stories as I have - they struggle to find something new to write about! The genre has been popular for such a long time and finding a new plot is a struggle. Every author can write a popular plot in their own style and come up with something that seems new and fresh, but eventually the new and fresh becomes old hat too.

I do wonder how long this can go on.