This journal is for my readers, feel free to read or not, but hopefully only if you've read that far.

Obviously, chapter 39 isn't out yet, I'm really questioning my ability to finish it. More than half of it was finished within a week of ch. 38, but then my second semester of College kicked in and, well, it threw my story off course. There's that, and I'm not alone at night anymore (I talk to Amber instead, and gosh she's worth every second).

It is my summer time, and once I get my head together and practice writing again, I'm sure I can finish it. However, I am at a loss of what to do... I have a story plot of key events that will happen for my main characters (Sparkles and her psychic ability developing, Logan and his attachment to other pokémon, etc.) throughout the whole story from literally since I started writing till the end at the Pokémon league (come the year I actually get that far), but lately can't think of much of what I want to happen in between events, or rather, I'm lacking story to continue my story! Really though, a lot of what I want to happen can't happen yet, not enough time and scenarios have passed for these events to be as effective as I want them to be.

So, here's where my readers come in. I don't know if many writers do this, but I want to see if I can incorporate anything that my readers want in the story. It is the pokémon world after all, I'm sure I can have much more happen then walk through a random city as generic as the last and fight the gym leader (well, that isn't exactly what has happened, but I fear that). In that, either on this journal itself or in notes, I want input (if you're willing to give it to me). If you have ideas of things that can happen in the city and in the traveling between cities, I'm willing to hear them and see what I can do. Credit for ideas will be put into the description of the chapter.

Note, a few details though: I have already decided what happens with the fight against the gym leader, whether or not the other characters interact with him or not. So, in case anyone thought a new character (yours probably) can be added as a traveling partner, that's not going to happen; seriously, my main character is not Ash, he doesn't travel with a group of three region to region, he barely lets anyone stay with him between one town and the next. I think that's all I wanted to say, basically that I want to continue my story but I need a push.

Oh, and yes! Yesterday while I was in Jury Duty (yeah, that was fun... not really), I was able to read over the printed version of a few of my first chapters. I'm thinking of going back and rewriting them a bit. Not change the story or anything, but maybe change the description of what happens and see if it can be updated because, well, I know my later chapters are better written with the practice, but I don't think my beginning chapters are strong enough to get people through to the next. Is that worth shooting for too?