Dysphemism (Euphemism's Antonym)

Updated Monday, September 8th, 2008 at 7:55 PM EST.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• About This Author
• Favourite Novels
• Solicited Stories
• Fan-Fiction Topics
• Tips
• Contact
• Website

ABOUT THIS AUTHOR:

        Aaron usually prefers to write in the third-person limited omniscient narrative mode. However, he seems to be comfortable to break out of that, occasionally. For example, he finds that a little bias is necessary for some stories -- and biases run thin in third-person! Thus, once in a while, Aaron finds that it is nice to have a narrator that can directly betray the reader with a flawed impartiality and narrow perspective.

        His preferences do not yet seem to extend towards genres or themes. Aaron is a young, inexperienced writer. As such, he is still experimenting freely with various genres. And he might remain that way, until the last day that he writes.

        Before Aaron joined Protagonize, he had been working devoutly on a novel-in-progress, with the working title of 'Resurgence'. He has barely touched it since.

       Right now, Aaron is recovering from depression, or trying to at least, and hopes to be back to school soon, to finish his last six or seven credits. Then, he will head off to university, to do something mildly interesting that will pay adequately.

       Occasionally, Aaron has collaborated with other internet users on various online video game development projects; specifically multi-player online role-playing games. Aaron has written dialogue, story content and designed landscapes with two-dimensional mapping software.

       Aaron is a preacher's kid, and a very liberal one at that. He is also an agnostic. And an evolutionist. And a feminist. And someone who is deeply concerned about climate change. His father is a minister for the United Church of Canada, and his mother is a lawyer for Legal Aid Ontario. Furthermore, Aaron disdains androcentrism and heterosexism; despite being a straight man. Please make note of the difference between heterosexuality and heterosexism. It is like the difference between 'Islamic' and 'Islamist', which most people don't seem to understand.

FAVOURITE NOVELS:

• Dune (and its many sequels) by Frank Herbert
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
•  Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer

SOLICITED STORIES:

        This list contains stories that Aaron would like to draw your attention to as readers and writers. He has participated in all of them, in some way or another.

• Fencing Fame's Fiancé (Medieval Fantasy Adventure Romance)
• Bare Feet (Modern Teen Romance)
• SIM - Free People (Science Fiction, Virtual Reality)
• Vagary (Futuristic Medieval Fantasy Simulation)
• For Whom Does The Rain Fall? (Futuristic Psychic Romance)
• The Six That Spade Lost (Post-Modern Paranormal Drama; Potentially Super Hero Action)

FAN-FICTION TOPICS:

• Dune series by Frank Herbert (non-canon BH&KJA content?) http://protagonize.com/story/the-apocrypha-of-arrakis-dune-fanfiction
• Firefly / Serenity by Joss Whedon (TV / Film / Comics)
• Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba (TV / Anime / Manga / Film)
• Claymore by Norihiro Yagi (TV / Anime / Manga)
• Chrono Trigger by Squaresoft (Video Game)
• Final Fantasy: The Ivalice Alliance Series by Square Enix (Video Games)
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates by Square Enix (Video Game)
• The World Ends With You by Square Enix & Jupiter (Video Game)

TIPS:

• Tags provide a greatly ignored service to your work. Please add as many relevant tags as possible.
• Always split big chunks of prose into paragraphs, no matter how disorganized. People will be unwilling to read huge blocks of text.
• Ratings will rarely ever tell you anything worthwhile about a writer, story, branch or chapter. Comments and readings tell far more.
• Giving constructive criticism and well-thought praise is far more useful than a rating.
• When branching, please consider any pre-established level of formality, narrative mode, style and themes. Always read the author guidance, as well. Otherwise, you may be irreparably damaging something dear to someone else.
• Ending branches and chapters on 'cliff-hangers' is a common and effective technique to keep the reader's interest.
• Be as gentle as possible when giving advice and critiques.

CONTACT:

MSN and Windows Live Messenger Address: words underscore of underscore stone thirteen at hotmail dot com, written that way so that it doesn't get spammed.

Contact E-mail, all one word, no brackets: (ac) (bassoonist) (at) (g mail) (dot) (calm)

WEBSITE:

The Web site listed below is not Aaron's. He is a member of a team that works there on an online video game development project. They are working on a role-playing game. The slang acronym MORPG (multiplayer online role playing game) applies. However, it is not yet playable by the public. Aaron is a mostly a writer for them, and also has contributed many ideas and concepts that do not relate directly to the writer's plots, settings and concepts.