I’m going to finish (another) novel

The (another) is because I have actually already finished one, The Ferry, which started as a long short story then got turned into a novel one NaNoWriMo1 (2009, I believe). It really needed to a rewrite or two, but I never got around to it and I feel if I’m going to try completing another novel, I should pick one of my many unfinished ones that has more good stuff already in it, thus requiring less good stuff be added. And that novel is Road Closed, which I’ve talked about here before. A lot. The last time I mentioned it was November 17, 2024–about two years ago, and I said this: The unfinished novel is my own, Road Closed (the title will almost certainly be changed to something else, should the novel ever be finished). The prologue outlines the tragic summer and drink-to-forget beginnings of young Christian Warren, setting the stage for the five-year jump ahead as the story begins proper. But the rest of the book–which is currently sitting at around 70,000+ words, is a bit of a mess.…

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