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| - Serial was the eighth of ten second-generation Brady Patrick stories to be created, and easily hardest to come up with. Serial was first a story about Yamcha meeting Puar. However, I didn't have any interest in that idea. As more and more of the collection was being written, and there was less room to randomly pick the next story to write, I switched the plot to that of Appule. However, I later wrote a fantastic story called Strength, which featured Appule as an enemy. Because Appule is a minor character, having him being so important in two stories wasn't something I wanted to do. In addition, the latter half of the Brady Patrick Collection took a turn away from the Planet Trade Organization seen far more often in the first half. The Tao story came after extensive studying of characters who are important, but don't have stories about them. Tao was not considered early on, as I was instead focusing on some other characters, such as Kami, Mr. Popo, and even Shenron. Shenron was the only character who interested me from the first day of studying, but there was no way to write a story about him. The second day, on May 15, 2013, I looked up more characters while in the library of my school, and came upon Tao. Instantly, I knew he was the one. After studying more about him and his timeline, finding that much of his story is unexplained, there was a lot of room to work with. I knew Roshi would be the one to duel with him immediately, and then changed the description before going to class. Serial wasn't written for almost two more weeks (13 days, actually) due to a variety of factors. For one, I had finals within a few days of coming up with the idea. Studying and writing essays left me no time to focus on Serial until after school on May 24, 2013. After school was out, I felt like I needed to watch some fight scenes, so I looked up a wuxia film I had long wanted to watch called Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. After watching that movie, I had an idea of what I wanted to do in terms of the fight directions. I acquired the opening for the story from a concert I had to go to near the end of the school year. Coupling this with the fact that much of the music of the wuxia film I watched was composed by Yo-Yo Ma, and featured a lot of cello music, I thought it would be good to make the target of Tao a cellist. And it worked out seamlessly. Before writing it, I also looked up old dialogue from Tao from the various Dragon Ball sagas on wikiquote. Tao is a very wordy guy, and often has some slightly lame dialogue (often self-complimenting) which was fun to mimic in the story. Once I read through some of his quotes again, I set up a playlist of 15 Gary Jules songs (with a runtime of 62 minutes) and began writing. I was finished before the playlist was able to complete a second time, although I paused the playlist several times to listen to some songs that Destructivedisk was showing me over Skype. I figure it took me two total hours to write. After I was done, I read the story out-loud before posting it, which is something I don't often do. Once I was satisfied, I posted the story.
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