My target word count for my scifi/horror/fantasy novel is about 100,000, with two sequels planned in the work. I'm not attached to either number, it's just a completely arbitrary way for me to measure progress for book1 while designing literary cohesion with potential book2&3. I plan on going hard on Good Politics™ in the third book, before that it's mostly setup and dog whistles.
Outlines, character sheets, drafts of paragraphs/chapters that haven't had their book/chronology set in stone yet. Wild stuff.
Anyways, unsolicited advice on any aspect of fiction novel writing would be appreciated, no matter how random!
If you're stuck on names or other things you want to go back to, use a placeholder and/or put notes in parentheses like (mayor)
That way you can search the document and put the name in later.
Then using the search, you can remove any of your notes in parentheses.
I get stuck with an idea sometimes where I want it to be perfect and that slows me down.
Excellent advice!