You Know You're Going All Out When...

Empty Words:

• You think about giving everyone an extra name or two.
• You write blog posts, then find a way for your characters to read those posts, therefore giving yourself an easy way to add those words to your word count.

Redundant Words:

• Tell a scene from one character's POV, then do it again from a second character's POV. Done right, you can do 50,000 words just in describing a single scene in a large-ish cocktail party