What comes next:

Greetings.

Firstly, I would like to thank everyone for the reads and reviews over the past 68 chapters, going on 2 years.

When I started writing this story, I set out to craft a story.

I am blind. I wanted to write something, and blindness is the spark that stuck.

When I started writing, each chapter would take me about a day. I would sit down, read the episode recaps for the episodes I planned on covering, and adapt it to fit the story I wanted to tell.

Now, I refer to the wiki for obscure knowledge, to check the timeline, or figure out what a character looks like.

When starting a saga, I'll write out the key things I want to happen. I'll break that into chapters.

One day, I'll break a chapter into scenes. The next day I'll script each scene. Basically making bullet points, between 5 and 25 items, with a few bits of key dialog sprinkled in. The next day I'll write the first half or so, and the last day I'll write the rest and give it a read, making edits as I go. Then I submit it to Steven, who has been wonderful to work with, and a short while later I get a polished chapter.

If there's a fight, I give Steven the basics, and he gives me a script with incredible choreography, and then over the course of a few days, I flush each of his sentences into a paragraph, I add dialog, and I make sure everything fits in. Then he'll edit, and I'll post.

I feel like over the past year and a half I've gone from riding on another person's rails, to really crafting my own story, as I set out to do.

Unfortunately, that's all I set out to do.

I didn't set out to entertain. I didn't set out to get tens of thousands of reads. I didn't set out to meet new people.

Well, I entertained, I'm about to hit 60,000 reads, and I have made several friends in the process.

But, I wanted to craft a story. And, I crafted a story.

I may not have told it, not all of it, but I have crafted it. I have the notes, from now until the … beginning ...

I crafted, and told the stories in the Saiyan Saga, Ginyu Saga, Frieza Saga, Bulma's capture and rescue, the Android Saga, and more.

With Steven's help I wrote the battle scenes I wanted to write. Writing Goku and his team fighting King Cold, writing Goku failing, just felt right for me, and it felt great. Writing Frieza being destroyed, and Gohan ascending to Super Saiyan 2, felt the same.

It wasn't just violence though. Panchy and Dr. Brief laying in bed, in the dark, talking about their daughter, scratched the same itch. Chi-Chi throwing her wedding ring, Gohan pushing back against Goku, and especially Hercule talking with Videl before she went back in time were the exact same for me.

There's more story to tell, Buu and beyond, and I know what they are.

But, there not my stories to tell. They don't speak to me, and I don't have a drive to put pen to paper for them.

I know what would be in CH69, CH70 … CH92, CH93 …

I know where Gohan is going, and I know how Videl is going. I know where Hercule is going, and I know where Broly is going.

But, I also know where I am going. And while I don't have a crystal ball, I'm almost certain that where I'm going is away from Darkness.

So, I have a decision to make.

Option 1: Leave the story where it is, and if I ever feel like coming back, to do. It could be a few chapters a year, or a chapter every few years. Or, it could be nothing, ever.

Option 2: I have the basics of each chapter between now and the conclusion of the story. I could polish them up, and post them as … as something. Likely one post with the chapter number, and a paragraph or two about what it was going to hold.

That's what I've got right now, and that's all I think I'm going to have.

I crafted a story, from Raditz to, a satisfactory point, and that's all I'm going to have.

So, as a reader I know what I would want.

But, please either leave a response, or shoot me a message, with your thoughts.

Should we roll the dice on me getting the passion back, or would you like me to wrap things up in one post?

Author's note: Again, thank you for reading, thank you for writing in, and thank you for sticking with me. I'm sorry I'm not able to finish the story as I had thought throughout, but I'd be doing myself as a person, you as a reader, and Darkness as a story, a disfavor by trying to force it.