by Nancy Haight | Feb 14, 2025 | Editing
Are you a sappy sucker like me? Do you identify as a goofy giver of gushy gifts as you grin with giddy gratitude? Romantic and ready, do you revel in the rosy radiance of Valentine’s Day? And the most important question: Do you enjoy alliteration? I obviously do. My...
by Nancy Haight | Feb 7, 2025 | Editing
I’m small. Standing at just five feet tall and weighing the same as 2.5 bags of wood pellets (we keep cozy in our little PNW home with a pellet stove), I don’t take up much space. If you sit behind me in a car, you’ll enjoy plenty of legroom. In my kitchen, you’ll...
by Nancy Haight | Feb 4, 2025 | Editing
From a text I was editing earlier today: She was a certified translator of French and Italian documents, particularly those relating to the Western tenants of European intellectualism. Oooh…I just love this kind of typo, where the author has used a legitimate word but...
by Nancy Haight | Jan 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
In case you aren’t familiar with an em dash, I put it in the title as a visual aid. It’s name comes from it being the same width as the letter m; similarly, an en dash is the same width as the letter n. An easy way to find these symbols in Microsoft Word is to click...
by Nancy Haight | Jan 27, 2025 | Editing
Refreshers are necessary at times, and based on my recent editing projects, how to properly format dialogue has got lots of writers confused. Are you in a tizzy over this too? Read on and see if you’ve got the bases covered. Start a New Line First, whenever a speaker...
