At last Stephanie and I are heading into the final revision on a mid-grade novel we’ve been working on forever.  It helped that we had time to sit down and brainstorm when I visited her for a few days following the SCBWI Working Writer’s Retreat.  Great inspiration struck after I came home and started plugging in changes  we’d discussed, and I think at last we are unstuck.  I’ve decided you can’t force unstuckedness.  Trying too hard produces only frustration.  Creativity has to find its own path.  So next time,while waiting, I’m going to review old manuscripts that got rejected or play computer games or go out to my garden and dig in the dirt and probably some of all three.  Eventually unstuckedness will happen.  At least it did this time.  Judy