Stuck in your NaNoWriMo? Behind on word count? Constructive cheating that can actually help your novel

There isn't much time left in National Novel Writing Month and you've found yourself behind on your quest for 50,000 words. You've got to write a whole lot of words in a very short time. How are you going to make up the deficit especially when you feel completely stuck?

There's a lot of advice for last minute "cheats" but most of it is just designed to pad your count and isn't actually helpful to your novel as a whole. For instance, in No Plot? No Problem! Chris Baty recommends cheats such as ...