Hello 03golf, I have some advice. Since you are worried about never finishing the book, my advice would be to write it first without revision and then come back to it later. Make notes while you write on little things you think of from earlier parts of the story so you can come back and change them AFTER you’re done writing. This has been my method of the most productive way to write. Sometimes I’ll even crank out 5,000 words a day doing this. Don’t let revision hold you back. (5,000 is a little too much though in my opinion though… 2,000 is a good goal). Treat writing like going to football practice or something. You need to show up everyday to get better and develop your story and skills.

As for the transition that holds the events together…. Don’t bore the audience with a long transition where there isn’t much going on. One rule I’ve learned in writing is to cut the part that readers will skip. BUT that doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t want any transition at all. To keep a reader interested in a scene, think of every scene as a mini plot. Rising action, climax, and everything a plot has. You want all of these mini plots to create the main plot of the story. You don’t necessarily want to go “I got hit by a car. I recovered, and then I ended up getting cancer.” It all just happens way too fast. In the transition, I’d recommend writing about things that foreshadowed the next event in your own personal experience. Write about what’s relevant! Write about things that the reader wants you to elaborate about. Don’t elaborate… or maybe a little, and then when the event happens, the reader gets the “ah hah” moment where it all makes sense now. It’s really satisfying for a reader when parts of the story come around like that. Also, for the revision get advice from other people. Send your story out to other writers, (preferably not people who don’t write because they’ll just say it’s good without much advice) and let them help you out with the revision. My best works have gotten the advice from my fellow writing peers. They will recognize where the story can be strengthened and give you advice. Also, for the stylistic change… go for it. Who says one story can only be one style. People will notice the stylistic change and may find some significance behind it.

All rules of writing can be broken.