You need to cultivate patience, if you are serious about being a writer. Sometimes, you will have days where it all seems to flow, and othertimes it will be as rough as the bottom of a parrot's cage!

If the problem is that you are not making the pace of your writing as fast as you would like, perhaps you are spending too much time on backstory or descriptions, which do tend to slow things down. Deal with backstory in dialogue. That way you won't bore yourself, or your reader. Don't use descriptive detail as filler. Every word must count.

On the other hand, maybe you are diving in to your writing, and you write at such a pace that you don't allow your writing to cook. Perhaps you expect it to be word perfect at first shot. No! Writing is about rewriting, over and over. The longer you leave your writing to cook, and then revisit it, the better. This allows you to get a much clearer idea of what you need to work on, when time and distance from your creation give you the objectivity you need. This is where patience comes in.

Strange as this may sound, it helps to take regular breaks away from writing to refuel, and get immersed in other things i.e life, which will give you ideas for what you are writing. Getting out and about gives you the opportunity to visit interesting places, or meet people, who could inspire characters and dialogue.

The time you spend asleep, may also be very productive! Keep a dream diary, and see if you can develop ideas from your dreams.

If you feel impatient because you are uninspired, you can also try using prompts. A prompt could be a piece of music, a work of art, such as a painting or photograph, it could be a souvenir, or an everyday object. You could take a line from a poem or a novel, and allow it to lead you on a journey of your own in your mind's eye.

Writing and being creative is all about helping your readers see, feel, and experience things in fresh ways. This means you should write when you feel full of energy for your passion. Try writing at different times of the day, (and night,) to discover your peak times. Keep a writing journal. Part of being a writer is about raising self-awareness, and knowing your strengths and weaknesses. Play to your strengths, and don't beat yourself up about getting it perfect first time round. Working towards perfection is enough. 

Part of professional development as a writer involves regular reading of novels and books about novel-writing.

When figuring out plot holes write down a at least 2-3 different alternatives to the problem, the ones that seem the most plausible start to extrapolate on it until it is mostly formed.

Keep cutting down the options until you have 2 alternatives and choose which of the two works better and is more simple (doesn't raise more questions than it answers)

Don't use bigger or fancier words just because they're bigger and fancier sometimes it's better and more fitting to just use simple terms!

You get motivated to write by writing the more you right the more you're motivated to keep going and the longer you wait the more daunting the thought of writing becomes so just write and don't worry about how it sounds because you can edit later!

Don't try to copy another writers style just because their books are popular write your own way and have your own style

Don't have too much outside stimulation like tv or music while you're working if you're trying to be more productive, you'll think better and be able to write better and faster without the distractions :)

I've found a lot of great writing tips (including some I've written here) on different instagram pages made by literary enthusiasts it's helpful to have them on your feed to remind you of certain things and to remind you to keep writing even if you feel it's not going well.

When I am stuck (which happens a lot,) it helps if I listen to music, and think "What scene comes to mind with this? What mood?" and that always helps me a lot! And what ever genre your book is in, read some books in that genre, watch a movie from that genre, whatever, and you should get some good ideas! Hope this helps!

I know just how you feel. I'm writing what I think is my best plot ever, but, I still have some kinks to work out and it's difficult! Here are my tips. 

 (1.) Sleep on it! 

This helps me alot. I think about my book and the kinks I need to work out as I go to sleep. This is actually how I came up with the plot for my story and the series inside of that series. 

(2.) Ask yourself what the mood of the scene is or what the mood of the character is at that time, and find a song that fits the mood! 

 This also helps. I have a character that can use ice, and I listen to Piano Guys Let It Go because  it has to do with ice. 

Hope this helped. :)

Allyson it is quite simple. First, pick up three books you have read that captured you from start to finish. Next, ask yourself why? "Why do I or did I like these books." What did the author do for me that made me turn the next page and the next? Did I yell at the protagonist to not do something stupid? Did I hate the antagonist? Was it a love story, a crime thriller, a comedy? These are your silent professors. Don't plagiarize, emulate. 

When you can answer those questions you begin. Sit down and write, and write, and write, and write. Take a ten minute break then write, and write, and write some more. When you stop writing, read, and read, and read.

If for some reason all this is laborious that does not mean you are not a writer it just means currently writing is not something you enjoy.

All that being said, if you truly want to be a writer never stop learning, never stop improving, and damn it, never stop writing.

Good luck!