The KidVegeta Anthology/Sink to the Bottom

Sink to the Bottom was a story written by Destructivedisk and myself. We came up with the story idea on February 21, 2014. Destructivedisk wanted to write a serious collaboration with me, as our previous collaborations (Dragonball lies in the old hat and The Anonymous Series) were just drunken joke stories. With Sink to the Bottom, we were not going to follow up on either of those stories. For me, at least, there was no alcohol consumed during the writing process. I don't know about Destructivedisk, but I would assume he didn't drink either.

I came up with the idea of this story after Destructivedisk stated his desire to write a collaboration with me. I slightly based it off of One, because I wanted to write something that Destructivedisk would be interested in. I didn't want this to turn into a story solely written by me, so I chose a character he loved (Yamcha) as being the protagonist. Admittedly, the idea of Yamcha's angst and love for Bulma didn't interest me too much. But since it kept Destructivedisk happy, I wrote it with him all the same. Destructivedisk created the page for Sink to the Bottom as well as the chapter names and sweet picture at the top of its page. The chapter names are based off of the stages of grief (Kubler-Ross model yo).

In terms of writing this story, we decided to each write for 500-700 words before switching off. This was usually adhered to, although sometimes we wrote more than 700 words in our sections when the plot demanded it. This is particularly true during the last chapter. Before the last chapter, each of my sections took me about 30 minutes to write. I did not usually read back over my sections before sending them to Destructivedisk over Skype. The last chapter took a bit longer, as my sections contained more words and were more emotionally important. I think the final part I wrote took me around an hour.

I never felt very stressed when writing Sink to the Bottom. I tried to write both humor and drama in the same story, as I think my strongest stories feature multiple genres. One of my favorite and most enjoyable stories to write is my Pokemon one (on another site), where I write comedy and angst hand-in-hand. I tried to do the same thing with Sink to the Bottom so I could have fun writing it. It was mostly fun to write. A few times, Destructivedisk wasn't able to write due to school or other things, and I think there were times that I couldn't write, either. But mostly, when we wanted to write, we did. I remember getting slightly annoyed at Destructivedisk when he wouldn't write the story with me, but I was never too annoyed. The last chapter was a very long session between Destructivedisk and myself where we wrote the entire thing late into the night so we could get it done. Once that was done, we posted the chapter and I remember feeling very happy with Sink to the Bottom at that time. I found it funny, tragic, and interesting. Since the chapter was posted, Destructivedisk has been badgering me about posting this commentary, but I wanted some distance from the story before I did so. Now with about three months since Sink to the Bottom was finished, I think I'm ready to finally delve into it.

Below, my sections will be bolded so as to differentiate them from Destructivedisk's. I will primarily be providing commentary for the parts of this story that I wrote.

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