A thing that happens over and over when I'm editing: I'll change a boring word to something more evocative, then find that the new evocative word is already in the very next sentence. Time and time again, all my writing life.
As an editor is it like the test where the instructions say "read the entire test" and then it tells you at the end not to fill out most of the questions? do you try to read the whole page or chapter before deciding on the edits?
With me it's often the prosaic words.
I will replace a 'maybe' with a 'perhaps', because I find the stressed second syllable more pleasing there, and then I will see another 'perhaps' in a next sentence, so then I will grudgingly change it back (and I will do all that again in subsequent edits.)
Question: Do you think that it is a way thw author thinks, or are doing a form of "self editing/censoring" ahead of the curve.
Another Q: I am a musician & understand how crucial it is to hire people who hear music the same way I do. Do you think it's the same way for a writer/editor relationship?
