John’s Substack
John OughtonReflections, suggestions & discoveries from a long life of writing, editing, and reviewing; posts should interest both writers (published and aspiring) and those rare beasts, people who simply love reading, and thinking about what they read.
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Happy Birthday, Photography
Humans have now enjoyed photography for about 200 years. The oldest surviving photo is shown above, shot out the window of a Paris building around 1826-27, and taken by the inventor Nicéphore Niépce. His process he named heliography (litera...
Nice Ways to Say Nasty Things
Today’s topic is euphemisms, polite or roundabout ways of referring to things or experiences that are difficult, frightening, visceral, or just get in the way of selling something. Euphemisms sidestep to soften the blow. The Merriam-Webster...
Scams that Target Writers
Dear writer friends: I'll alert you to a couple of recent scams I checked up on. For some reason, I get many fake offers for special access to an elite book club, etc. that target writers, even my poetry publications (well known for making...
Fight of the Century: Metonymy vs. Synecdoche
Metonymy and synecdoche sound like obscure medical terms, don’t they? “I’m afraid your synecdoche is occluded, so we’ll have to perform a laproscopic metonymy right away.” Actually, they’re linguistic moves from the rich storehouse of rheto...
Meta-words
What are meta-words, you ask? No, they’re not yet owned by Mark Zuckerberg. They describe either certain types of words, or ways of mangling them. So I’ve pulled a few out of my dusty brain and looked for examples to amuse you. I think, giv...
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Retired college professor, poet (six books),novelist, photographer, guitar player.
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