sputnikmonolith@alien.topBtoBooks•What is your favorite book that has an interesting take on time travel?English
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1 year agoThe Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes.
A drifter in the the 30’s drunkenly stumbles into an evil, sentient house that uses him to murder extraordinary women over the next 100 years or so and the protagonist - a victim who survives - discoveres she was attacked by a time travelling serial killer.
They’re called “Echoes” or “Echo words”.
It’s an editor’s job to remove them from the final manuscript. Writers tend not to write many chapters at once, or read through cover to cover so get “tunnel vision” when self editing. They might go back to an unfinished chapter and repeat words or phrases, forgetting they have just used that the day before. It’s incredibly common. Just like a musician playing their favourite lick, or drum fill.
Source: wife is an editor