Overwhelming

This is my first real campaign with myself as DM. I’ve done the “Dragon of Icespire Peak” campaign as a DM. But this is so different. I started playing DnD around 8 months ago. Was a PC in 2 campaigns.

Currently I’m 2 sessions into COS. There is so much information. I think my players are having fun so far. They are about to go to Valaki with Ireena. They helped bury her dad in The village of Barovia. I’m trying to make strands presence felt. Before the campaign started, one of my players received an invitation to barovia from Strahd. The invitation informed the player that he has the players Girlfriend. Strahd visited the player last session in his dream. And told him to bring him Ireena in exchange for his girlfriend.

The players have already found out that Ireena has the soul of Strahds lost love.

How do you guys keep things interesting??

Sorry if this post lacks direction, I guess it was to vent a little haha.