User blog comment:JohnathanNash/Editing and some things to look for./@comment-7064562-20170130032549/@comment-26475800-20170130041238

I have a tendency to use a good number of commas, and that's something I look for when I edit. As for repetition, yes sometimes it's useful and needed. If it has to do with a something that's going to happen in the story, like Signs for example (don't know why I keep using that movie for examples lately, but it works for this one pretty damn well.) they keep showing the water that will kill the aliens. That would translate to word perfectly, and it's a good thing to keep in the reader's mind. But to keep saying someone is their lover and boyfriend over and over will kill the story, like you said.