by Nancy Haight | May 23, 2025 | Editing
The other day, I took a spelling test. Among the words it asked me to check were committment, wholey, principly, slurr, and totaly. These misspellings felt like old friends—words I’ve corrected in manuscripts time and again over the years. I dutifully fixed them to...
by Nancy Haight | May 13, 2025 | Editing
My oldest daughter has a pretty nifty job working with kids. As she gears up to plan summer programming, one of her ideas is a daytime club for kids—full of crafts, games, snacks, and sunshine (the last one is debatable, though. After all, we live in the PNW). “Mom,”...
by Nancy Haight | May 7, 2025 | Editing
It’s minimalist. It’s chaotic. It’s a little bit poetic in a defiant way. whatifwedidnteverusepunctuationandcapitalization brings a certain vibe to writing—equal parts experimental and rebellious. It dares readers to slow down and decode rather than skim. And for a...
by Nancy Haight | May 5, 2025 | Editing
I attend a small Lutheran church with pretty stained-glass windows. It’s a beautiful place filled with kind people and, as my youngest daughter recently pointed out, a surprising number of men named Bill. The comment came after I told her a story about one of the...
by Nancy Haight | Apr 22, 2025 | Editing
Let it land. Let it linger. Let it echo. You’ve just experienced anaphora. While your high school English teacher may have scolded you for repetition, anaphora proves that sometimes breaking the rules creates the most memorable writing. What Is This...
by Nancy Haight | Apr 18, 2025 | Editing
Have you ever noticed how certain phrases stick in your mind long after you’ve read them? Many memorable quotes and powerful statements share a common literary technique: parallelism. What Is Parallelism? Parallelism is a figure of speech in which two or more...
