Editing 101 – Repeating yourself? Find out!

“I say good chap you’re repeating yourself! Were you drunk when you wrote this? Poor show!”

Do you repeat phrases without being aware of it? It can have a huge impact on your writing. An eagle eyed reader will not miss the fact that you’ve said the same thing three or four times in a novel, fantastic if you intended it, embarrassing if it was a clever turn of phrase you’ve flogged like the dead horse you rode in on (What?).

A novel, as previously mentioned, is not easy to check over for this...