Plus and minus

[feuervogel]

Today I discovered that a scene I'd marked for deletion was still included in the manuscript, so I lost 930 words. But I was able to salvage some of it (about 350 words). With that and the revisions, I had a word count of +591, but am still negative since yesterday on the total word count, at 77786.

I've also found some repeated descriptions, which I'll have to cut out or move and integrate into earlier scenes. Or make different enough that it doesn't matter.