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Take breaks, spread it out in time.
Change perspective. Take proofreading to a park. Take it to a pub. Change your environment. This isn't very efficient but it helps some.
Have some other person to read it and point out shortcomings.
If your productivity suffers due to breaks, work on a few things in parallel. Write two different novels a scene at a time, skipping between one and the other, and squeeze a short story or two in between.
Edit, edit, edit, edit. I usually spend two-three times as long editing as writing. And I often go back to editing first chapters while still writing later ones, way before the end of the novel.
If an imagery of given, further section is vivid, write it out of sequence. Squeeze it out to free your mind for writing the parts at hand. Use it later, when its time comes.

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