An editor’s notebook: when repeated words are the author’s “binky”
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An editor’s notebook: when repeated words are the author’s “binky”

Which words does your author come back to again and again? As an editor, your eye and ear must detect these repetitions, but that’s not sufficient. You need to understand why the author comes back to them and suggest fixes that improve meaning, rather than just creating variety. In a business book I recently edited, the…