Author Archives: LindaGauer

Homonym challenged

Posted on August 17, 2012 by LindaGauer

From a blog about making a living as a freelance writer; I also wrote as a guest blogger for a number of sights Who is hiring said guest blogger?

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Good Writing or Writing Good?

Posted on July 20, 2012 by LindaGauer
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Comma fault

Posted on May 28, 2012 by LindaGauer
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Thank you, Mrs. Ehmke and Mrs. Kaufman

Posted on May 8, 2012 by LindaGauer
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Good Fiction, Anyone?

Posted on May 4, 2012 by LindaGauer

So no Pulitzer for fiction this year. What does that say about our best sellers? Anyone have a book(fiction) from 2011-2012 that they would recommend? Afraid I don’t know of any.

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Better than palindromes

Posted on April 30, 2012 by LindaGauer

Here is an interesting story from Robert Krulwich about Reading Upside Down If you’ve read Angels and Demons you’ve seen some of these and they are always fun. (I don’t think it is a coincidence that the cryptologist in the … Continue reading →

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A short story

Posted on April 27, 2012 by LindaGauer

Unfortunately no attribution.

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Nobody said they are GOOD books.

Posted on April 26, 2012 by LindaGauer

Take a look at this graph from The Atlantic and notice how reading rates have improved over the past 50 years. This data predates ebook growth. I suspect the numbers would be higher today. Gallup data here Link to The … Continue reading →

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Rant

Posted on April 24, 2012 by LindaGauer

The word is WHOA. I don’t care how many times you’ve seen it on the internet as woah or whoah, you are wrong if you spell it that way. So stop it.

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Making a living with poetry

Posted on April 22, 2012 by LindaGauer

I heard this on NPR. Read the story here:Poem store

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