The Dreaded Writers Block

I've been working on a YA novel for approximately two years now inbetween middle grade novels and picture books and I've hit the dreaded 'writers block'.  I can sit for hours looking at the blank page of my computer monitor hoping for a spark so I can complete this overly stressful manuscript.  My main character is so intense I sometimes get worn out writing her.  Don't get me wrong, she's an extremely profound character, with many flaws that she's driven to correct after much soul searching however, at her core, she's caring, loving and just wants to be accepted.  Torn between two different worlds, she struggles with who and what she is knowing all along what her basal instincts are and as much as she attempts to defy those instincts, at her nucleus she knows that is where she belongs.

I've accomplished, I feel, a great beginning and middle, however, its the down hill slope that's got me in turmoil.   After a turbulent beginning and middle, I've slowed down and I think I'd let my readers down with how the story is going.  But then, I tell myself, the pace is necessary because these are necessary details.

I'm at the point in this manuscript where I wish I was just finished and I could start the rewriting process.  Much of the earlier text has been rewritten several times, which I find comforting.  I so enjoy the rewriting process, its the getting it down part that sometimes drives me crazy.  I so love when the text just flows like a vessel from my mind onto the pages.  I wish it could always be that way.  So, here's to tomorrow, another day which I hope I can accomplish much more then the three or four lines I got down today.