>>58582705Thanks, I always enjoy hearing your thoughts! Sorry to hear about the financial situation, I hope that things eventually smooth over for you.
>Maybe a BIT heavy-handedYeah for sure. Was kinda struggling with this mini-arc overall so its definitely hammed up. I don't plan on actually completely crippling Kurt, seems way too extreme, and like was mentioned, Pokemon are tough cookies. They get blown up, lasered, punched and kicked with ludicrous forces, hit with crazy shit named "THE LIGHT THAT BURNS THE SKY" or "NIHIL LIGHT" and they almost always get back up later. Kurt's gonna get better, but is probably gonna have a permanent reminder of what happened.
>>58582904>keep the threads going until thenI'll certainly try to keep up the writing.
>Can't wait to see what you do with itThanks! Need to come up with some more ideas of fun stuff for the trio.
>>58582956A little 2.5 chapter wouldn't hurt after finishing up ch 3 so you don't lose steam on it. Also would be good as practice if you want to try your hand at slice of life.
>programming, is not particularly exciting to read aboutYeah if you get too in the weeds about it and start using developer jargon, you might lose people. It can remain interesting if you focus on Val and his thoughts as he's doing the coding job rather than the job itself.
Regarding timeskips, yeah they're fine to manage pacing and skip over unimportant events that don't really have a narrative purpose, especially between chapters if a stretch of time has passed. I time skipped between ch 2 and 3 in S&W because Simon was just stuck on a rock the entire day, so nothing interesting really happened.
