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...
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...
by Nancy Haight | Jan 3, 2025 | Editing
It’s time to get a grip on English. We gotta clinch it. Or do we clench it? Uh-oh…I sense word-choice insecurity. I recently came across this sentence during an editing project: “They will be crushed,” the warlord said, clinching his fist. Word Alert! Historically,...
by Nancy Haight | Dec 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
I edit a lot, like a lot a lot, and I’ve come across some funny typos over the last fifteen years. Some of my favorites are “the whole gambit” instead of “the whole gamut” (a gambit is a chess move) and using “escape goat” when it should be “scapegoat,” which is...
