  So there I was, plugging along at the read-through on my manuscript, fooling myself into believing, that "hey, this doesn't suck," when it happened. I hit the suck chapter. Chapter 25. I guess I should be lucky I was relatively suck-less until then.
Suck, suck, suck. This is a very important chapter. It introduces a new character, a potential aide to the villains; adds information that is imperitive to getting to the end of the book; strains the relationship between heroine and hero #2. And it sucks. Bad. I think it's because I lost Sarah's voice. She's basically just standing around watching (boring) stuff happen and feeling sorry for herself. The location is dull, and the new character is mind-numbingly boring. I'm just pushing the characters around like chess pieces, and I don't think they like it at all.
So, instead of marking it up carefully with my red pen and taking notes, I just wrote a big red "REWRITE" on all of Chapter 25's pages. Then I went to bed and read some of Laurell K. Hamilton's 'Narcissus in Chains. ' Talk about suck. That book sucks in bad ways *and* good ways. She's the master. I want to suck at writing just as good as she does. 
