Getting Back to Writer Square?

Maybe it’s the dog days of August, but I’ve been somewhat unmotivated about my writing the past couple of weeks. It could be a bad case of novel post-partum—I’ve delivered my baby—Friends Like These—and now it’s on submission and I’m in a holding pattern, hoping a publisher likes my novel enough to buy it. But it’s been hard to get geared up for another long haul of writing my next book.

I’m sporadically hacking away on a first draft of a new novel and rewriting some short materials for an upcoming community event as well as a writers’ workshop. So I haven’t stopped writing. Yet I’m not really in the writing flow at the moment.

Hey fellow writers—what do you find helps you to get back on track with your writing and to get back to Writer Square? A writers’ conference? A writing retreat? A temporary break from writing? Thanks for any suggestions.