Why I Think I Stopped Writing My Novel at the Most Pivotal Point

Forty-five thousand words into the story, my protagonist sits down at a table across from the two main antagonists of the story, his ex-wife and her new husband. This protagonist, a middle-aged Uber driver who left the corporate world after a string of life-altering events, is (not surprisingly) based on me, a middle-aged gig worker who left the corporate world after a string of…