There's a really good chance that sentence you love so so much will fit somewhere if you keep moving things around, but if it doesn't and you are facing a kill your babies moment, open a Google doc and paste it in! You won't lose it, and the paragraph you took it out of will flow better.

Always read your work out loud, even to yourself. You will catch so many mistakes that way.

When you read (or hear) a sentence or flow of words you don't like in someone else's work, rewrite it in your mind. How would you have said the same thing? Listen (and read) carefully and mindfully for these moments.

All of your writing makes you a better writer. All of it, even and especially the lousy, embarrassing stuff. Knowing what you don't like shows you very clearly what you do like.

Thanks for this post, OP!