A question to the writers out there.

So what do you do when you feel you are way off your game?  Write, naturally, and 2012 has been, for some values thereof, my most productive year to date.  It's also felt like I've been cranking out just miserable shit that falls flat every time.  To a certain extent, I can forgive this in Child Sword's first draft (mark 3), since it's a first draft, and I clearly am a writer who's first draft is my sacrifice to Sturgeon's Law (I feel as though people who produce decent drafts on the first go are much better writers and human beings than I am, and that by admitting this, I am showing weakness that will inevitably draw the literary hyaenas to my door), but the rest of it.  It's not a matter of plateauing, either, since I am producing demonstrably weaker work across the board than I was last year.