Eh-- hello. I'm Rayne. You may not know me...

So yeah-- I suppose I should answer some questions-- I suppose I should have answered these questions a long time ago.

Is Abstract Gender dead?
Yeah-- I never really wanted to say it, but it was pretty obvious-- after my last attempt to get an artist and start up AGU totally failed, I gave up. I mean-- you got through-- uh-- 5 artists-- I mean-- I have shame too... I really enjoyed AG, I enjoyed writing to people, and I, for the most part, enjoyed the feedback. I miss it, too.

Are you going to finish the dA scripts?
I wanted to. I still might. It's not number 1 on my priorities list right now-- the economy has made me worried about a lot of other things right now and so I am focused on that. The scripts aren't that hard to do, its just a case of organizing thoughts and getting going. AGU, in my opinion, was really a great story that, I felt, had a great ending. It had some great characters, some of which you guys have seen pictures of. I may still get back to it. I also wanted to go back to writing my Rivalry fanfic for Naruto, just to get my focus back on paragraph writing-- that lasted all of 1 chapter. I got so out of the habit of paragraph writing that I found it extremely difficulty and had to recruit Irene as a proof reader for it (The same Irene that inspired the Wotch character ).

Tell us more about the Rivalry Story!
Oh, if you insist. Rivalry is a Naruto fanfic that takes place TOTALLY outside of the Naruto timeline. I made sure never to mention a name that was listed in Naruto, and it takes place in the Village hidden in the Clouds, the least developed (story wise) village in the series. The focus is a sister and her genius little brother and their two teams. It again is obvious that my love for ensamble casts shines through, as all those characters get a bit of development. It had some good plot points, an interesting enemy, and some great dark moments that I feel I am very good at putting into words. I cant say any more on the off chance I get back in to it.

What have you been doing!?
Oh-- snap. Well-- I think when I was doing AG I was attending college-- I graduated, of course-- So I had to get a full time job-- that took some of my free time-- as I actually spent a lot of my time writing in between classes-- I lost that time-- Since I was working an hour from where I lived, I got an apartment closer to work-- Christmas 2007 my apartment got robbed while I was at my parents place-- I lost about $5k worth of items, including my big screen TV, anime, my new Wii, games, DVDs, DVD players-- for some reason they didn't steal my computer-- which at the time was having internet access problems anyway... After that I began looking around at other places to live, and with the market as it was, I decided to buy-- so now I own my own house-- however-- I cant really afford it on my own-- so I havta have roommates-- but the first two were party animals, so I had to boot them, then I got a sheriff-- he is a good guy-- but he recently lost his job-- so he's probably leaving soon-- I also had this annoying hippy of a mess who also had parties, so naturally he was in and out in a short period of time. So between the money struggles and revolving door of roommates-- I'm always nervous looking at my money just wondering when I'm going to lose my house... I've got a few messages from people asking to look at the house-- but I've kinda got a phone phobia-- so I'm yet to call them back... I have a ladyfriend now--

A woman?! cooties!
No, no, they're okay-- we've been going out for-- I dunno-- I think since April-- maybe May-- she remembers better than me-- sad its not even a year and I cant remember... This isn't not a good sign-- She's a Vet Tech in training and a great writer--

Writer!? Does that mean--?
No-- I'm not actively writing right now-- but I am proof reading her books before they can be published-- I want everyone to keep an eye out for 'The Three Realms' and 'Lachrymosa'. Maybe proof reading her works will inspire me to get back to work on writing myself-- I fear I may be quite rusty by now though... Hey-- everyone be sure to buy her books! They'll be good, but if you buy them, we make money-- then I can just mooch off her and have free time to do writing! See! Help you help me!

I'll try to answer questions in the next few days while I'm still thinking to check the forums-- I don't give it too many days, though-- as I've been doing a lot of other stuff lately as well.

Aaron 'Rayne' Stewart