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...
by Nancy Haight | Apr 10, 2025 | Editing
We’ve all had those moments when grammar gets tangled, and we commit what I like to call a speech-o—like a typo but spoken. One of the most common mix-ups I hear is this: “Her and I went to the store.” Not nearly as often, maybe once in a blue moon, I’ll hear...
by Nancy Haight | Apr 2, 2025 | Editing
At 5 feet tall, I’m shorter than most Christmas trees, filing cabinets, refrigerators (I never see their tops without a stool), arcade machines, and the average moose. Maybe that’s why I have an affinity for things that are compact and efficient—I like difficult...
by Nancy Haight | Apr 1, 2025 | Editing
My editor eyes never go off duty, even when I’m on vacation. Case in point: We just had Spring Break in Oregon. On one of the days, my family and I met my longtime friend and her husband at a charming Swedish café in Portland. It’s a fantastic place that serves...
by Nancy Haight | Mar 22, 2025 | Editing
My last name is Haight, and I love it. But most people hesitate before saying it out loud or mispronounce it since it sounds exactly like “hate,” and that makes some folks feel a little awkward. Back in my early twenties, my friends Aaron and Ben jokingly gave me the...
