so I've been thinking about this statement:
and the more I think about it, the more I want to scream "YES YOU DOLT" at the top of my lungs. Connor has been working on Redesigning Molly Ringwald for, what, how long? Five years? Longer? And he's written something like six extremely short chapters that probably amount to thirty pages at most.
Now, I don't know much about professional writing or publishing, but it seems that professional authors, who make their living writing, and have no other source of income, write a novel every single year, maybe every two years. There are, I think, some extremely dedicated and probably a little insane writers who write two novels a year, but anything more than that is usually indicative of a ghost writer being involved (James Patterson has something like sixteen novels released in 2014, you bet your ass he didn't write all of them by himself). Regardless of how often they publish novels, many, many also publish multiple short stories, write articles for magazines (often magazines discussing writing itself or related to the genre to which their novels and short stories belong).
On exceedingly rare occasions you have a Tolkien or a Rowling, who can write a few books that are so widely beloved that they could rest on their laurels and coast off of them; you'll notice that neither of them coasted off of the original body of work; Tolkien wrote the Simarillion, a completely unnecessary book that was simply an outpouring of his passion for the world he created that he wanted to share with everyone else. Rowling continues to write after Harry Potter. It may not be as popular as Harry Potter, but she's doing it because she loves to do it. maybe a tiny handful of these people come along once a decade, and it's a combination of skill, luck, and timing that determines when this happens. And brother, let me tell you, Connor, you ain't got the skill.
If it takes you more than a year to write a book, you're going to struggle as a writer. Considering how long you've been working on Redesigning Eva, and considering that you have almost nothing to show for it.... well...