Day 16 was 3,571 words. I'd hoped for a super Saturday of sorts, since I'd hit about 2.9k words early on, but then I just never really got to it, so it's an up day instead of a super-up, changing momentum day.
Granted, part of the reason I didn't get back to it (or swing for the fences) was because I was proofing book 6. I finished with 33 more pages, bringing me to 51 so I can query that one agent I'd been meaning to contact... well, after I finish my 1-3 page synopsis.
While proofing, I realized I used “a little” three times in the same paragraph
I wound up changing two and, after some consideration, left one as-is. The only other repetition I’ve run into was in describing and referencing an area where a character was injured. For the most part, the prose was relatively clean. There are a few things I might change here and there, but my biggest issue is omitting words which I often miss when proofing anyway.
Anyway, I'm at 40,799 words into book 8 now, and I'm sitting at 90.7% of my 2.5k word daily quota (my daily average is 2,236 atm). If I just stay at my average, I probably won't close out book 8 by the end of the month unless it winds up just being 71k words. I'll have to make up for lost time somewhere.
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Cindy -- I manually save periodically. afaik, I don't have autosave enabled, mostly because I don't trust it. And I save a back-up every 2 days, which I'll email myself and then I add a back-up to an external storage device every 7 days. My version is Office and Student 2016, which is the version that was on the laptop when I borrowed it. Traditionally, I've used Apache OpenOffice at home.
Taylor -- Personally, I'd just power through it... but that can be torture at times, particularly when I decided to power through another 40-50k words in a novel. (And I should note that the novel I hated writing hasn't read that badly while I was proofing it... although I'm also more towards the beginning whereas I felt like I was struggling more and more as I went along.)