Barb C’s Journal

Writers crave feedback, but on some fundamental level we distrust it, too. (Or at least, the paranoid ones among us do.) The nature of feedback is unreliable. “Wow, I loved that story!” can mean:
1. Wow, I loved that story!
2. Wow, I loved that story, but my critical faculties are nil! I […]

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They’re making a Golden Compass movie.
I am so torn. On the one hand, I loved the first two and a half books of this trilogy, and it would make a stunning, stunning, STUNNING movie. On the other hand, I was pretty disappointed in the way the third book ended; I felt […]

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