When I find that I'm just not in the mood to work on adding to a story but still want to work on it I find that that is a good time to revise what you've already written. I start from the very beginning and work my way up to the last thing I have written (of course, in the case that the manuscript has surpassed 20,000 words this would be very time consuming so I suggest starting from where you began writing two days prior). When you're re-reading your work try to 'watch' your characters. If you can picture your writing as a scene right in front of you then chances are that your doing something right.
Also, it always helps to have your work read aloud. No matter how many times you read a sentence you can still miss a forgotten letter or misspelled word. With my last manuscript of 54,000 words I went online and downloaded a free text-to-voice reader. This allowed me to clean my room for a few hours as I listened to my book being read aloud by the electronic voice.
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