Alright, so here’s trying out a blyg.

A good place to start might be TK, which I hadn’t really understood before this. It comes from newsroom and editing practice: a way to mark something that still needs filling in, so you can keep writing.

This description from Matt Quirk, quoted by Steven Pressfield in The Magic of TK, felt particularly apt:

TK is an editing mark that means “to come” and is equivalent to leaving a blank or brackets in the text (It’s TK, not TC, because editorial marks are often misspelled intentionally so as not to confuse them with final copy: editors write graf and hed for paragraph and headline).

Can’t figure out a character’s name? “EvilPoliticianTK.” Need to describe the forest? “He looked out over the SpookyForestDescriptionTK.”

I like the idea of giving the unfinished bit a name and moving on. Seems like a useful permission to start with here.