Backtracking . . .

Another tip for getting a rough draft down faster is to go back and change your path when you start to feel like you don't love what you're writing. In my earlier years I would plod along even if I was slowed by the feeling that my story wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be. With age and experience I learned to avoid those periods of sluggish writing by stopping when I feel like I hate my sentences and paragraphs. I learned to backtrack.

Now as soon as I get that "crappy writing"...