Feel free to just summarize the parts that bore you

You know what's awesome about novels? You can just write, "They had sex, and it was awesome" Or "then they fought with swords, and the bad guy died." Or "Three weeks later, he'd climbed down from the mountain."

In fact, you can even skip MUCH longer or more uncertain processes. You can write, "He was rescued by a kindly shepherdess, and by next fall they…