I tend to ride the NaNo wave. In the past couple of years I've given myself a month to work on something out of my comfort zone. This year, that's a novel that I've tentatively outlined - as a non-outliner it's always interesting to find new ways in which outlining does not work for me.

(I'm greenknight, by the way)

For me, writing fast is a Bad Idea. What happens is that I go for the low-hanging fruit: the scenes that are easy to write because I don't need much research or thinking, and they end up much heavier on dialogue and internalisation than description and action.

I just spent two days working out what to put into a scene: my WIP is much better for it, but if I'd been chasing wordcount, the temptation would have been to skip over this.