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One way to save yourself some cost at editing time is to ensure your document is as clean as possible when it goes to your editor. Clean up all spelling errors and typos before it leaves your hands. These are the easiest errors to handle on your own.
One way to identify these errors is to look for the red and green squiggly underlines on your Word or Google document. Many other word processing apps have them, too. Now, keep in mind this won't catch every error: for instance,... they won't catch the times you mess up the difference between to, too, and two or they're, their, and there. But this will catch many typos and misspellings. Read through the document one more time and focus on spelling.
The fewer times an editor has to catch misspellings, the more time he or she has to focus on other matters and the less money you will then pay out for an avoidable change.
Also focus on grammatical challenges, like noun-verb agreement. And punctuation.
Do you have writing goals for your new book? Write 1,000 words a day? Two thousand words a day? Five thousand words a day? Many authors set a goal and try to write to it, because having a goal sets a pace, even if they don't achieve it or overachieve it on any given day. Having a goal also motivates action. And if having a specific goal becomes too difficult, you can always revise it. Give it some thought, try it, and see if it helps you make more progress on your book. If not, there are plenty of other strategies.
