Imagination

It's working.  I'm getting a few more ideas for my plot down on paper, and fleshing them out.  I am trying to think of less and less original or predictable outcomes, too - tricky, as I want the characters to be believable, and none of them (so far at least) appears to  suffer from any form of psychosis.  So there are definitely a few options there that aren't going to fit.  But it's a good exercise for my imagination.  I want to avoid falling into the trap of my six-year old, and churning out the easy and obvious....since I have nearly thirty years on her, I have no excuse.