Update for my captive audience since I know you love when I talk about stuff you all probably don't even care about and which, at most, just makes you feel worse for not writing as much as I am now. I just finished proofreading TFC chapter 5! :D Too late to post now so I'll post it tomorrow, before I go to work (for the fifth day in a row. Finally Monday I get a break though, although that's when classes start of course). As I proofread this chapter I think I finally came to realize just how much I've improved as a writer over the years when I first started writing TFC, especially after also reading over its matching counterpart from back then. My writing now is simply much more natural, with more realistic dialogue and actions. Back then everything was just too cartoony in many ways, while now I can actually picture this stuff happening in reality. Many people I've talked to, even back years ago when I was writing the first version of TFC, laughed at the idea of me trying to make Pokemon more realistic. One person in particular, a guy who I used to admin with and even considered a friend before he grew on my nerves, even went so far to say that any attempt to apply realism to something inherently fictional could only result in a disaster. I guess I'm biased, but I think now more than ever that the idea of trying to make Pokemon more realistic really can work, and work extremely well.
I bet even after showing Dimi how smooth and sensible this all is, particularly how I portrayed the fight with Jehiel and how wild Pokemon shouldn't have to follow the same rules as trainers, he'd still say that it's a bad idea. -_- Thanks a lot Dimi, you're probably one of the reasons for my low self-esteem.
And to keep somewhat on topic, I see that the problem of getting new ideas in the middle of writing has come up. I'm always getting new ideas for fics and am always trying to retool dead ideas to bring them back to life. Already sitting on my hard drive and in my head I have ideas for how to revive the Pokemorph stories that got me into fics in the first place while being less cheesy and blatant ripoffs of Animorphs, concepts for both a pure Myst/Uru fic and a Pokemon crossover version, this outline for a fic involving a guy from the normal world who one day wakes up in the Pokemon world and then finds that every time he goes to sleep he crosses between our world and the Pokemon world as the two begin merging together (leading to artifacts from each world "bleeding" into the other) that may or may not involve time travel, another reality crossover thing that then focuses on the main character traveling progressively farther back in time to fix various doomsday scenarios in the present each time creating a new threat until finally he discovers that both worlds branched off from one base and that he has to decide which world will continue to exist and which will cease to exist, and probably several more that will come back to me after I post this. I don't want to use the plot bunny farm for them as I keep on thinking that someday I may come back to them and aren't ready to just give them away quite yet... The one with the character alternating between worlds and the non-crossover Uru fic are probably the most likely to be revived at some point...