Repeated words are wasted words. If they are repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated, they loose their intended meaning. Like cliches, they were at first a new saying, but as they were used over, and over, and over, and over, again, they lost their original meaning. Wasting words occurs in many novels I have read, especially those big, 500 to a 1000 page books, they have some good material, but a lot of it is drowned in unimportant things. That is why there needs to be more editing and revising. And some books that are really long just have a lot of things to write, but still words are valuable, and although their are hundreds of thousands of them, make sure to use the right amount, at the right times.
oh, and I have a idea of what the cover art for my novel will be, although, because I don't know how to draw very good.
I was going to have a picture for this but I couldn't get it to work.