Last night I went to bed ~14,000 words into a story. This morning I woke up with a new character (technically 2), that recontextualizes and changes every scene I've written so far, but also gives me a significant missing event to work towards.
It's better, it's harder (more of a stretch for me), and I _really_ want to see how the story plays out. I'm also not thrilled about having to basically rewrite 14,000 words. Not from scratch, but…