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| - In 2014 (I don't remember exactly what month or day), I came up with an idea - to create a collection of very short stories for Dragon Ball. This was influenced by a class I was taking at the time which was examining micro-fiction. I thought it would be cool to do something similar with Dragon Ball. I spent months working on this story, preparing the story list, the character list, and whatnot. However, I never got this story to work, forcing me to abandon it.
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| - In 2014 (I don't remember exactly what month or day), I came up with an idea - to create a collection of very short stories for Dragon Ball. This was influenced by a class I was taking at the time which was examining micro-fiction. I thought it would be cool to do something similar with Dragon Ball. I spent months working on this story, preparing the story list, the character list, and whatnot. However, I never got this story to work, forcing me to abandon it. One reason I abandoned it is that an idea I had - six word stories - would mean that I would end up with hundreds of Dragon Ball stories, greatly diluting my story collection and causing me to have a ridiculous amount of anthology page. I realized that quality was more important to me than quantity and this short story project, especially the very short stories (below 100 words) would be so easy to produce that keeping the quality at its highest would be too hard. I also didn't want to start another long story (overall, with all its stories, the Short Story Project would be a very long endeavor), since I had so many unfinished stories at the time (as of writing this anthology, I still have too many of those). So I just abandoned it. I never wrote much for this story, though I did actually write several complete stories, which can be seen below. I also created the below description to be on the Short Story Project page. I almost posted it - I had it on this wiki and everything, on a "create a new page" page, but decided against posting it at the last second. I saved the below description a word document, however, in case I ever changed my mind. The below story names in the headers do not have descriptions. I only ever created the story names with the intent of forming a story around them at a later point. I never got to that later point before abandoning this story. I just wasn't passionate about this story. There were a small amount of story ideas that I was passionate about that came from this story, though. Some of them were re-purposed for Things Were Better Then or will appear in my 2016 as-of-yet-unnamed one-shot collection of 8 stories (the sushi competition between Ledas and Tarble will be one of those). But the original idea for this story was to literally have hundreds of stories on the page - the vast majority of them less than 100 words, and a few going up to 750 words maximum. In the end, I didn't care enough about this story to create it. The quality vs quantity argument was a major reason for me ultimately giving up on this idea. To this day I'm glad I did. I wouldn't want to have to still be working on this story (if I had created it, there is no way it would be done yet). So this is one of those stories I am happy to have deleted. It's trimming the fat. It's keeping my sense of quality. The good ideas I've had in this collection will be (or have been) used anyway.
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