Creating an item in a list -- through workflow

I have a workflow, which has got one step:
Create item in list name (output to
Vairable: Create)
This workflow runs on a new item creation. This was working nicely a few days ago, but all of a sudden it has stopped. It gets suspended.
I'm hoping anybody could give me some guidance on this.
Many thanks !

Hi Bhism,
After much investigation, i can say that there is some problem with the SP2013 workflows. I'm currently using an SP2010 workflow to achieve the same task and it works properly.
So i would suggest anyone who is using this workflow in SP2013 platform, should rather construct an SP2010 w/f and use that.
Regards,
prajK

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