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 | 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 | 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...
