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'''Currently, I have 9 incomplete stories. 1 is an active story; 2 are on reserve, set to be started soon; 6 are on hiatus and are not going to be bumped up to the "On Reserve" or "Active" categories until more stories have been completed.'''

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 story.

'''In progress stories: 5; conceptual ideas: 4. Underlined stories have not been started at all - they have no prose written for them whatsoever. Priority is given to completing stories that have at least something written for them already, prose-wise.'''

Active Stories (1)

 * His Majesty's Pet - 10/12 chapters completed.

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.

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 

 Some thoughts on this section:  I will break this section into three parts: ancient stories, noob stories, and more recent 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 because I haven't started either, beyond a few character pages (and a short build-up one-shot collection in the case of Halo). These stories likely will not be worked on until my total story count is below five.

My Lord of the Rings story is being written in collaboration with Hyper Zergling. Because he can't work on it for the foreseeable future (potentially ever), I will not write it yet. However, I have ideas for it, and I do have plotlines that are entirely unconnected to his characters. With that said, this is not a priority at this point, as I have other stories to complete first. But this is certainly a story I could start at any time. The simple fact that I have 8 other stories, many of them quite long, is why I haven't started my LOTR story yet.

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. And yet, in all that time, I haven't written a word of the story. It's just how it is. That's such a long story that I won't be getting to it soon. I expect to start it in two or three years, hopefully. If I haven't started writing it by then, there's a good chance I may not write any of it at all.

The second section lists old ideas of mine that I'm still fond of and wish to bring resolution to. There are five 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. I usually do not delete stories that I have written anything for. I don't delete stories that I've written words for. It's so rare that it's barely worth mentioning. Ten out of the eleven stories in my deleted pages anthology have either been re-written (Breaking of Silence is His Majesty's Pet, for example), or re-imagined in their world (which was the case for To Kill an Empire). So in general, I do not give up on stories. I may re-work them. I may change significant details about what I want to do with them. That is the case with all five of these old stories. 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.

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. In the month or so of time I spent writing it, I wrote an entire saga, which is pretty cool. I'm looking to return to this story in August or September of 2017 to quickly finish it in, ideally, a 2-3 month span. It will be much shorter now and significant details of the plot have been changed from the original version. This is a story I can see myself completing in 2017, which would be a great relief, as this story has been in danger of never been completed for almost 6 years. 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 to do 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. I would definitely want to finish this story sometime this year, though, at a minimum.

A Just Edge may be an old story, but it's also one of my most optimistic stories. I love Pokemon, so that makes writing this story a lot of fun. Also, the fact that I use so much comedy in it makes it quite fun to write. I wrote 28 chapters of it in 2016. Yeah, really. I love this story. It may be my favorite fan fiction overall, even outclassing TF (I know that sounds crazy). It's also, currently, my longest fan fiction ever. AJE is not like my other stories in that I have no plans to end it, at least in the foreseeable future. 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, and likely additional arcs after that. This story has been on hiatus since I finished the Kanto arc in August 2016. It will likely remain on hiatus until November 2017. Then I will continue writing away at this story. This story is certainly the most successful and least concerning story (for me to complete) on this list.

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. With that said, I'll probably be re-writing the first act and a half (roughly) that I already wrote and do a more POV style narrative with a more set POV character list that is logical and shit.

I would love to finish 2017 with His Majesty's Pet done. Now that it's August 2017, I have 10/12 chapter done. I am hoping to finish as many chapters as I can this month, with a goal of 1 more at least. The editing period for this story will be extensive, which I think will take me at least the first two weeks of September. However, I absolutely want it posted on the wiki that month.

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'm about 3/4 of the way done with this story right now. It's gotten way bigger than I imagined, and even with its grand scale, it's still not that big. HOTD will be much larger in scope, for example. I want to start writing HOTD, so my PTO story is my #1 priority overall, although at the moment it'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. 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 20 or 25 chapters, but I won't be able to know if I can do that until 10-15 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. I don't really want to do this unless I have to, as it makes the story significantly longer to make such a decision. There's around a 30% chance of that happening, though.

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

It's a bit disingenuous to say that The Shadow of Valyria began in September 2015. I began working on it in mid February 2015. In the process of working on that story, I got the idea for The Lost Dragon, and began working on that instead. I have since finished TLD. I decided that I wouldn't work on this story 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. So I need the book. Basically, I'm just waiting for George RR Martin to release it. I have ideas for this story. That said, TSOV is a long story, probably 80 chapters and more than 400,000 words. I would like to reign that in, but not sure how to yet. The length is part of why I haven't at least written the first couple chapters yet. I don't want to start a new, super-long story until some of my other stories are completed first. This is one of my newer stories, so it's not a high priority right now. I basically will do nothing with this story until GRRM releases The Winds of Winter.

Heart of the Dragon cannot be started until my PTO story and my next (yet-to-be-made) one-shot collections are completed. I have already started on a character list. I know the name of the first saga. I have most of the villains already created. But beyond that, I don't have a tremendous amount planned. Some of what is coming is hinted at in The Great Sushi-Eating Contest, but please note that that story takes place in the gap between the first and second saga of HOTD. The timeline for that story will be tricky, another reason why I have yet to do much work on it. There will likely be one-shots in my 2017 collection(s) that will also build up to this story. So currently, this story is about a year off. It's super complicated and likely to be my biggest story ever. I have written at least a dozen stories specifically building up to this story. That's how serious I am about it. But alas, it's still a year or so away.

My priority is always first on short stories. 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 (these always have the lowest priority because I cannot control when the other writer is available and vice versa). Stories that have any extant chapters or prose have priority as well. I don't like unfinished stories. Stories that are partially finished are in much more dire circumstances than those that have no prose at all yet. So that's my process for writing and that should hopefully explain why certain stories are active or on reserve, while others are on (in some cases) extended hiatuses.

In terms of the three categories, no prose has been written for stories in the ancient and recent categories. All five 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 current stories list (hopefully by April 2018).