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simonzer
Subscriber since: April 2007
About Me
Photojournalist / screenwriter located in LA
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Favorite Word:
highfalutin
...love it because I was surrounded by all those pretentious, grandiose windbags pontificating about sod all when I was growing up in the UK!
Least Favorite Word:
failure
...because it doesn't exist
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Mass-Market Artisans
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Books:
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I DARE Say!
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Fiction writing:
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The Writer-Reader-Character Bond
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Grammar:
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"Bad" Grammar in Ads: License to Annoy?
November 14, 2011
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Marketing:
Score One for the Apostrophe
October 19, 2011
- 9
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"And One More Thing": The Insanely Great Language of Steve Jobs
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Visual Thesaurus:
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Jamie McKenzie on Finding the Best Words
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Writer's block:
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Why You Should Think of Yourself as an Orange
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Writing:
Type Casting
January 24, 2012
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Seven Ways to Stop Editing While You Write
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