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		<title>An OC Poll</title>
		<link>http://wanderingcritic.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/an-oc-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, not a poll about Orange County; one about Original Characters in fan fiction. Last year&#8217;s poll on flaming produced some interesting results, so I&#8217;m running a new poll, equally unscientific, this about original characters. Love &#8216;em? Hate &#8216;em? Make your opinion known. Some fanfic writers refuse to use original characters at all, others scatter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingcritic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4191096&amp;post=287&amp;subd=wanderingcritic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I get mail&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://wanderingcritic.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/i-get-mail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wanderingcritic.wordpress.com/?p=256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As surprising as it may seem, much of the email I get in connection with my fanfic reviews, and especially with this blog, is very positive. Once in a while there are exceptions. Oddly enough, the majority of those are not from the authors whose stories I have criticized, but from third parties, either the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingcritic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4191096&amp;post=256&amp;subd=wanderingcritic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cat Who Wrote Fanfic</title>
		<link>http://wanderingcritic.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/the-cat-who-wrote-fanfic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wanderingcritic.wordpress.com/?p=207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit to my secret weakness here. It&#8217;s like one of those 12-step meetings: Hello, I&#8217;m the Wandering Critic, and I read &#8220;Cat Who&#8230;&#8221; mysteries. I started in the middle, read the entire series, and for quite a few years I&#8217;ve been rushing to the bookstore for each new book when it came [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingcritic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4191096&amp;post=207&amp;subd=wanderingcritic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The story is missing,&#8221; Tom expostulated.</title>
		<link>http://wanderingcritic.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/the-story-is-missing-tom-expostulated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wanderingcritic.wordpress.com/?p=227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I found a little treasure of fanfic &#8212; a story that seemed to be the literary successor to the famous Eye of Argon &#8212; posted over on FFN. Today, it&#8217;s gone.  I&#8217;m a sad Critic. I&#8217;ll have to admit that the story was probably unsalvageable. It had a Mary Sue, demonstrated by the fact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingcritic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4191096&amp;post=227&amp;subd=wanderingcritic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wandering Art</title>
		<link>http://wanderingcritic.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/wandering-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wanderingcritic.wordpress.com/?p=202</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to a couple of people asking for a bigger version of the &#8220;wild thesaurus&#8221; picture, I&#8217;ve now got a DeviantArt account. It contains that picture. No, I&#8217;m not about to try to turn my hand to art. I know where my talents lie. But if for some reason you wanted a picture of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingcritic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4191096&amp;post=202&amp;subd=wanderingcritic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lord of the Wrongs</title>
		<link>http://wanderingcritic.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/lord-of-the-wrongs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wanderingcritic.wordpress.com/?p=172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The worst kind of ignorance ain&#8217;t what ya don&#8217;t know, it&#8217;s what ya know that ain&#8217;t so. That quote has been attributed to Josh Billings, Will Rogers, and even Mark Twain. None of them wrote it; any of them may have said it. All of them would certainly have agreed with it. Nowhere is this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingcritic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4191096&amp;post=172&amp;subd=wanderingcritic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ecology of the Clueless Fanbrat</title>
		<link>http://wanderingcritic.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/ecology-of-the-clueless-fanbrat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wanderingcritic.wordpress.com/?p=173</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[from The Journal of Fanbrat Studies The fanfiction ecosystem plays host to numerous unusual organisms. This article introduces and describes two of the most prominent species, the Greater Clueless Fanbrat, Fanbrattus nonindicia, and the Lesser Clueless (or Squeeing) Fanbrat, Fanbrattus adulator, with some notes on their major predators such as the Common Nitpicker and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingcritic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4191096&amp;post=173&amp;subd=wanderingcritic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Intransitive Fanbrat</title>
		<link>http://wanderingcritic.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/the-intransitive-fanbrat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wanderingcritic.wordpress.com/?p=170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the time I&#8217;ve been writing this blog I&#8217;ve talked about various subjects, but whenever they directly involve fanfic writers one thing always seems to creep — or perhaps muscle — in: Authorbation. Self-expression. Writing for the author rather than the audience. In this Critic&#8217;s opinion, that is the greatest cause of bad fanfic. This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingcritic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4191096&amp;post=170&amp;subd=wanderingcritic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Defenders of the Bad</title>
		<link>http://wanderingcritic.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/the-defenders-of-the-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wanderingcritic.wordpress.com/?p=161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My hate mail is always interesting. I recently posted a rather strong critique of a disastrously bad story called Dragon Rider Rei, traddy&#8216;s second attempt at writing an Eragon/Sailor Moon crossover (the first of which I also reviewed). This brought about a rather vitriolic email from an individual I&#8217;ll call &#8220;Shea&#8221; defending the fic, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingcritic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4191096&amp;post=161&amp;subd=wanderingcritic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Examples of Flaming Insults</title>
		<link>http://wanderingcritic.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/examples-of-flaming-insults/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While going through my blog stats to see what sorts of search terms were bringing people here, I noticed that someone searched for &#8220;examples of flaming insults,&#8221; which seemed like an excellent theme for a post. After all, we&#8217;ve all seen stories with &#8220;no flames plz&#8221; on them, but what exactly do the writers mean [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wanderingcritic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4191096&amp;post=155&amp;subd=wanderingcritic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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