Don’t get caught up with trying to make your first draft everything you want it to be. Instead, focus on the fundamentals, and then have fun sculpting it into what you imagine.
So my book/passion project/delusional projection story is something that's based on my childhood imaginary world, and as a story concept has been evolving and changing since I started trying to write it at maybe 9 or 10. Which means that I get to go back and look at my old writing and find some real gems like these: