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There are 4 Dragon Ball Universe stories; there is 1 Halo Universe story; there is 1 Death Note Universe story; there is 1 Lord of the Rings Universe story; there is 1 A Song of Ice and Fire Universe story; there is 1 Pokemon Universe story.

'''In progress stories: 5 ; upcoming stories: 4. Underlined stories have no prose written for them at all. Priority is given to completing stories that already have some of their prose written.'''

Active Stories (1)

 * His Majesty's Pet - editing phase: [38/39]

On Reserve (2)

 * Death Note: Our Truths - 0/24 chapters completed.


 * The History of the Decline and Fall of the Planet Trade Organization - 65/95 chapters completed.
 * The History of the Decline and Fall of the Planet Trade Organization/Volume I - 20/20 chapters completed.
 * The History of the Decline and Fall of the Planet Trade Organization/Volume II - 20/20 chapters completed.
 * The History of the Decline and Fall of the Planet Trade Organization/Volume III - 25/25 chapters completed.
 * The History of the Decline and Fall of the Planet Trade Organization/Volume IV - 0/30 chapters completed.

Hiatus/Storage (6)

 * Unnamed Halo series - 0/??? chapters completed.
 * Unnamed Lord of the Rings story - 0/??? chapters completed.
 * The Last Saiyan - 14/52 chapters completed.
 * The Shadow of Valyria - 0/??? chapters completed.
 * Dragon Ball: Heart of the Dragon - 0/??? chapters completed.
 * A Just Edge - 42/??? chapters completed.

自分の消すべきこと
This list is the order I wish to complete these stories in.

Oldest stories
''This section lists active stories by start date. Underlined stories have yet to be begun.''
 * 1)  Unnamed Lord of the Rings story  - Sometime in December 2003
 * 2)  Unnamed Halo series  - Sometime in early 2004
 * 3) Death Note: Our Truths - 01:31, December 2, 2010‎
 * 4) A Just Edge - 18:04, December 16, 2011‎
 * 5) The Last Saiyan - 21:09, April 6, 2012
 * 6) His Majesty's Pet - 21:54, April 6, 2012
 * 7) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Planet Trade Organization - 15:31, August 14, 2013
 * 8)  The Shadow of Valyria  - 14:15, September 23, 2015
 * 9)  Dragon Ball: Heart of the Dragon  - 19:49, June 19, 2017‎ 

Ancient Stories
The first section includes two stories, both of which I've wanted to write long before joining wikia. Both of these stories I intend to write at some point, but they are not high priorities for me at the moment They likely will not be worked on until my total story count is below 5.

LOTR story
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My Lord of the Rings story is being written in collaboration with Hyper Zergling. This is not a priority at this point, as I have other stories to complete first. But I could start it at any time. The simple fact that I have 8 other stories, many of them higher priorities, is why I haven't started this one yet.

Halo story
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The Halo story has existed since 2004 in my mind, to some capacity. It has changed and evolved quite a bit in the thirteen years since then. Yet I haven't written a word of the story. I will not be starting this story until I have no more than 2 active stories left.

Noob Stories
The second section lists old ideas of mine that I'm still fond of and wish to bring resolution to. There are 5 stories in this section, ranging from Our Truths to my PTO story. Each of them is more than four years old - some quite older - and each one has prose written for it, no less than roughly 20% of the total story, in each case. These are ideas that are too expansive to be deleted. All of them, as I imagine them now, are significantly different plotwise from when I first created them. That's just how it is, though.

Death Note: Our Truths
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Our Truths is a Death Note story that I have struggled with since about 2011. I haven't written a word of it since January 2011. I'm looking to return to this story in August or September of 2017 to quickly finish it in, ideally, a 3-4 month span. It will be much shorter now and significant details of the plot have been changed from the original version. There's a whole to do list I have setup that I have to burn through before I start working on OT again. I hope to get that entire list done in August 2017 and then proceed to start writing this story again in September 2017. There will be four arcs of 6 chapters each (with the first arc already being written, though needing serious editing), leaving 18 new chapters left to write. I hope to finish this story in October 2017, but November is somewhat likely too, I suppose.

A Just Edge
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A Just Edge may be an old story, but it's also significantly written. I'm writing it in arcs. I finished the Kanto arc in 2016. I'm going to write the Sevii Islands arc next. Dunno what's going to be the third arc yet, but there will be a third arc, a fourth arc, and maybe a fifth arc. I do not foresee a sixth arc. This story has been on hiatus since I finished the Kanto arc in August 2016. It will likely remain on hiatus until November 2017, when OT is complete. Then I will begin writing it again. I will write the second arc simultaneously with my PTO story, once His Majesty's Pet and Death Note: Our Truths are done. I expect to write 5 chapters a month from November 2017 to January 2017. Perhaps it will take me until February 2017, but at that point, I expect to have finished the second arc of AJE, which will be 15 chapters (which I think is quite doable in a very short time frame - I produced 28 chapters of AJE over the course of 2016, so I know I can hit this pace in half (or less!!) a year if I try).

I will then resume AJE, doing the as-of-yet-unplotted third arc in tandem with Dragon Ball: Heart of the Dragon. AJE will not go on hiatus again after that point, and I will write the third arc, the fourth arc, and the possible fifth arc one after another, while also going through HOTD. I expect to finish AJE, therefore, around the time of the end of the second saga, or sometime in the third saga, if one of the arcs ends up being many chapters. I don't expect the third arc to be very long - it should be no more than 8-10 chapters. The fourth arc may be longer - perhaps 12 or so. If I do a fifth arc, I expect it to be roughly 25 or so chapters, and that would be all I do for AJE. These of course are very rough estimates, but I expect to finish AJE as I'm also working on HOTD.

I should also say that, taking basically the most conservative estimate (and I would be pretty shocked if this number were true) of 112 possible chapters, A Just Edge is 37.5% complete right now. Again, I think 112 is probably high, and I would like to finish AJE in roughly 87 or so chapters. I won't know until I've written through at least the third arc what I'll do for the last two, however. So this number, in terms of chapter count, could fluctuate wildly. 87 is much lower than 112. That 25 chapter difference is a year's worth of content. So I can't be too precise at this point. But I do think I can finish the second and third arcs at a minimum this year (the third arc could be finished as soon as June or July, if the writing goes well), as well as progress on the fourth arc. If that arc is the last arc, AJE could even be finished in 2018. One can dream. I do think a 2019 end-date seems likely, at which point I will then proceed to write The Shadow of Valyria in tandem with HOTD.

The Last Saiyan
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The Last Saiyan and His Majesty's Pet were created on the same day. Perhaps that was my greatest day of futility on this wiki ever. Sometimes I regret creating those two stories, particularly The Last Saiyan. TLS is in a permanent state of hiatus until at least HOTD is done... and the amount of stories I have to finish or at least get started before HOTD is finished is still quite extensive. TLS is likely anywhere from 3-5 years out from even being started up again. When I continue on with it, I will first rewrite the 14 chapters that are currently written.

His Majesty's Pet
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I would love to finish 2017 with His Majesty's Pet done. I am currently editing it (which will take part in 2 phases), and I hope to finish this in September 2017.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Planet Trade Organization
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My PTO story was started in 2013, but I didn't really get serious about it until 2014. I finished the first book in August 2015, and finished the second book (while taking a large bit out of the third book too) in 2016. I finished the third volume in the first half of 2017. I'm about 3/4 of the way done with this story right now. At the moment, PTO's on a temporary hiatus as I "trim the fat" as it were and finish Death Note: Our Truths and His Majesty's Pet first. I have 30 chapters left to write, give or take, which is one volume. I think that may take around 6-8 months to complete. I will make it my #1 priority to complete this story once I've finished the above stories. I may also reduce the fourth book to 25 chapters, but I won't be able to know if I can do that until 15-20 of the chapters are written. There is also a slight possibility of it being expanded to 40 chapters, which would require a fifth volume as well. There's around a 30% chance of that happening.

PTO will be resumed hopefully in November 2017 after His Majesty's Pet and Death Note: Our Truths are completed. If I'm still writing OT in November, which is entirely possible, I will resume this story in December, most likely, or as soon as OT is done, if I only have a few chapters left to write for November. I will begin PTO in tandem with A Just Edge and will make it my goal to write 5 chapters of each story per a month from November onwards. This puts an end-date for PTO at April 2017, with 30 chapters completed in that time if I stick to my plan. I do hope to stick to that plan, but I will try to do more than 5 chapters per a month in December and January when I have time off from school. Regardless, even though I expect to begin this story again in November, working on it along with another story of mine, PTO will be my #1 priority at that point.

Once PTO is done, once Starchasers: Origins is done, and once Vöntun is done, I will be able to start Dragon Ball: Heart of the Dragon, a story I want to start more than anything right now (especially given this most recent arc of Super). Alas, I need to get all of my universe "up to date", as it were - get them all the to 778 Age, when BOG takes place - before I can begin HOTD. I've got PTO, HMP, and the two one-shot collections left to complete at this point, and I don't really see anything else I need to do, unless I end up writing another canon-following collaboration, that would be required for me to finish before starting HOTD. PTO is the biggest remaining story standing in HOTD's way, so it will soon become my utter focus.

I want to get this shit over with and get to the good story, you know? I like the PTO history and all that shit, but sometimes I just want to write about my own Saiyan sparring with my best bb's Saiyan in SSG and that just sounds like the most perfect and fun thing to write about so I wanna get there man. PTO will fall before July 2017 no matter what, I say, and if I don't hit that deadline, I'll do something highly unfortunate and even more embarrassing.

Recent Stories
Now we get to the most recent stories. All of them have been around only since February 2015 or later.

The Shadow of Valyria
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I began working on The Shadow of Valyria in mid February 2015. I have decided that I will not work on this story in terms of writing prose until The Winds of Winter is released, as my story will deal with some sensitive stuff going on in the region of Dorne in TWOW's timeline. I will basically do nothing with this story until GRRM releases The Winds of Winter.

So, if TWOW gets delayed massively, I will consider starting up this story as I work on HOTD also, after AJE is done. This is all dealing with events that will take place a long time in the future, so TWOW should be out by then. This is foreseeably a late 2018 or 2019 story in that case. I would be pretty shocked if TWOW isn't out by 2019. If it's not, that book's probably never coming out, and he'll die before the series is over, no question. So I'll just begin writing it at that point. I want to write TSOV in tandem with HOTD after AJE is done. At that point, if I'm a good kayvee and don't start a bunch of new projects before finishing old ones, I should have five stories left (LOTR, Halo, TLS, HOTD, and TSOV). TSOV would therefore be in prime position to be taken out at that point. I don't see a better story to start up then instead of that one. LOTR and Halo are both either as long as TSOV or longer, and both require the collaborative efforts of HZ, which I can't rely on. So I think that would be a good time to tackle TSOV, even if TWOW isn't out by then. With that said, I would expect to finish TSOV in about 45 chapters max, so even if it came on in saga 4 of HOTD, I would be surprised to learn that I finished HOTD before TSOV in that case. I think it'll last about three to four HOTD sagas and then be finished. I don't want to make this story too long, after all.

Dragon Ball: Heart of the Dragon
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Heart of the Dragon cannot be started until my PTO story and my next (yet-to-be-made) one-shot collections are completed. So currently, this story is about a year off.

This story should be 9 sagas of 12 chapters apiece. The saga length may be different from TF, but as of right now, it is the same. So with that in mind, I expect to start this story once the following stories are done:
 * His Majesty's Pet
 * The History of the Decline and Fall of the Planet Trade Organization
 * Starchasers: Origins
 * Vöntun

Once those are done, I think I can start HOTD. Again, this is contingent on me not starting any other new stories aside from the one-shot collections mentioned above. I hope to start HOTD around July 2017 right now. If I can start it then, that would be nice. And I could start AJE up again, writing the third arc and onwards, in tandem with HOTD. I expect to finish the first saga of HOTD and the third arc of AJE at around the same time. The fourth AJE arc and a possible fifth one might last into the end of the third HOTD saga, but I don't think it'll be around longer than that. Then, I'll still be focused on HOTD but also start The Shadow of Valyria. TSOV should last three or four sagas but be finished before HOTD. Then after that, I expect to wait on both LOTR and Halo (the only other stories of mine besides TLS, which cannot be begun until HOTD is complete) until HOTD is finished. So I should have exclusive focus on HOTD during the last few sagas of its life. I think it's likely I'll finish this story sometime in 2020 after around 2 years of working on it. But it could very well take me a lot longer than that. I have no idea at this point, really.

Postword
Stories that can be completed quickly get maximum priority. Stories that have fewer chapters, even if those chapters have bloated wordcounts, have second priority. Then it's basically in terms of stories that I am interested in, and then stories that I am working on in collaboration with other people. Stories that have any extant chapters or prose have priority as well.

In terms of the three categories, no prose has been written for stories in the ancient and recent categories. All 5 stories in the "noob kv glory days" category have at least 20% of their prose already written. Thus, this category is getting almost exclusive focus by me for now, although at some point, I do expect to add HOTD to the active stories list (hopefully by April 2018).