Mining for gems in Draft 1

Redrafting my #NaNo project, I'm not pretending I'm at the editing stage yet, is throwing up some interesting revelations. As a #deepfantasy writer, my focus is very much on just a few characters but I did start to wonder if I had written a #Romance. The test of a Romance is often said to be that if you remove the story about the two people grappling with their attraction to each other, you wouldn't have a lot left. And this appeared to be the case. I also began to see that the female protagonist seemed to emerging as a 'Chosen One', you know, the hero with special powers who must save others, and that hadn't been my intention.
My experience has often been that the first draft of a story will be hiding most the elements you need but it is easy to delete them as you focus on just a few things, usually the most obvious. So I have gone back and looked at the 'rough rush' of what I produced in #NaNo time and have been relieved to discover the hints of how I need to proceed. This process requires an odd mix of deep faith in the unconscious and a willingness to keep questioning, exploring and honing--very much conscious activities.
The key danger seems to be fear that it won't all come together. This is both exhilarating and depressing but probably no uncommon, especially for us #pantsers.