Chapters eleven thru sixteen are content complete. Seventeen is mostly complete. I'm working my way through it now, tweaking things and correcting continuity issues. Chapters eighteen and nineteen are outlined.
Chapter seventeen contains a scene I've built towards since the beginning of part one. It's key for what transpires at the end of part two. I mention this because it's cool to finally get to these parts of the story.
The oldest version of this story started with the male protagonist reuniting with his childhood sweetheart. For me, the story always began with part two. I'm glad I wrote part one and kept working on it for so long. It gave me a much richer base for the story, and the characters are better.
Also interesting is how much the story has changed. The Roger character was originally the female protagonists deceased husband. Back then, the addiction and its resulting bond was a vague concept.
All this is cool, but why isn't the story finished?
I'm lucky in that my employer designated me as essential. While so many have been unemployed, I've worked a full shift each week. There was a brief COVID scare, but I didn't catch it. The other reason is I re-write until I get something that passes my internal BS detector. I hate reading something that feels "forced."
Unless something comes up, I should finish chapter seventeen this weekend. Eighteen and nineteen will likely take three or four weeks. There's a lot happening there and I'll be working from a two-year-old version. I'm unsure about chapter twenty. My current plan is to pull a chapter from part three and use it to introduce another character << spoiler>>(Stephanie's oldest sister)<< /spoiler>>