So today’s election day. I got up this morning at 5am to hit my polling place when it opened until my dear husband called me on his way to work (he luckily got to vote by absentee ballot). After he told me that the line was already out of the school and down the street, I decided to wait until the morning rush died down.   I’m taking the waiting time to think about my own writing. The vote and the choices we have to make made me think about my own dear character and my book. Since it’s a middle-grade book, the challenge I keep facing is that the action has to be present on some level at all times. I don’t mean…