When you’ve come up with that piquantly on-the-nose, distinctive, wow-that’s-perfect adjective, you may—as I’ve noticed—be so pleased with it that you unwittingly summon it up again right away. If an idea is, say, benighted on p. 27, some other idea oughtn’t to be benighted on p. 31.*13 Consider jotting down on a pad your favorite five-dollar words as you use them to ensure that none of them appear more than once per manuscript.
