LOL! I think I do the same thing. I tend to edit as I write normally, but will often forget that I stated something in the prior paragraph. Also in business writing - you do often repeat certain things as a matter of course, because in business people don't always read all of it - and well, if you repeat it - it's for emphasis.
I think it depends on what it is. Usually. Metaphors are tricky, as are quotes or lines from songs - less is always more. Same is true in tv and film - a filmmaker or tv writer will often get obsessed with something and hit the viewer over the head with it, until the viewer screams at the screen and says, I got it! Then of course there's the opposite problem - where you are too subtle or too vague, expecting the reader to pick up on some obscure metaphor or idea. (This I'm also unfortunately guilty of. I've had more than one reader state - "I don't get that" and I'll go - but it's obvious, see? And realize just because it is obvious to me, doesn't necessarily mean it is to anyone outside of my head. Hee.)
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Date: 2008-01-14 10:38 pm (UTC)I think it depends on what it is. Usually.
Metaphors are tricky, as are quotes or lines from songs - less is always more. Same is true in tv and film - a filmmaker or tv writer will often get obsessed with something and hit the viewer over the head with it, until the viewer screams at the screen and says, I got it! Then of course there's the opposite problem - where you are too subtle or too vague, expecting the reader to pick up on some obscure metaphor or idea. (This I'm also unfortunately guilty of. I've had more than one reader state - "I don't get that" and I'll go - but it's obvious, see? And realize just because it is obvious to me, doesn't necessarily mean it is to anyone outside of my head. Hee.)