Very much feeling this!
So far December has been exhausting and it feels surreal that it’s only the 7th. On a lot of days, writing has been akin to pulling teeth and I have been wholeheartedly embracing “perfect is the enemy of done” because what I’m drafting is further from perfect than even my first drafts usually are.
Among other things, I’m feeling the need to go back to earlier chapters and add in bit-part named characters so that when I then put them in peril, which I’m currently doing, the player goes “uh oh, hope that person doesn’t get eaten by crocodiles!” or “oh thank goodness, those crocodiles know what they’re doing”, rather than “who? am I meant to know who this crocodile-victim is?” But I also want to get through the chapter, so a lot of it is a step up from placeholder text before I figure out who exactly the crocodiles* are menacing and how to make the player care about it.
*there are no crocodiles, but I wish there were.