I've been missing a lot of things lately >.< The days from October 28th-31st were very busy so I totally forgot to leave you a message, but I guess that's not an excuse. I feel really bad now. Happy belated birthday?
Anyways, unfortunately, I probably won't have much free time to write Roots properly at least until December. I've started making notes for the next few chapters, and I've made some good ones, but I need to actually get to writing the next chapter before I can say I made any real progress. :P In the meantime, I guess what sort of Pokemon-related things have you been up to? I've beaten the Elite Four in HeartGold, but beyond that I can't motivate myself to play for more than a few minutes at a time. The game doesn't make me want to explore it like other games did. I don't know why.
Now I'm at the point where I'm regretting how many times I've restarted my old games (thankfully not Platinum), because besides Platinum, I have no completed game files anymore.