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Yuletide Weather Forecast:
 
Temperatures are estimated to fluctuate between active panic and total apathy into the next weekend. Main assignments will have a minimum temperature of regret and a complete climate change once editing is complete. Expect treat writing to continue at all free hours unless the dangerous front of procrastination cropping up in the Northeast successful moves into the area, effectively killing the treat storm conditions for the season. 

 

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I know there are people who can and do write that fast, but honestly my first assumption would be someone who already had a wip that happened to fit a prompt.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, especially if they happen to be gaming hard towards friends, which I know a duo from my old fandom are probably doing.

(I have a pet theory that I ran into them anonymously bemoaning how no one is in their new tiny fandom, except, hey, I’m in tiny fandom, I’d love to talk about it! Then silence. I know it could have been anyone, but it was such a classic them series of oh-so-lonely-small-fandom-wait-no-one-else-touch-it between that moment and their Yuletide signups that I still hold the idea in my heart.)

[(Anonymous)]

One year I got 45k into a yuletide fic, realized it was way too big for the time I had, and then picked up a new canon because panic panic bears.

I was able to do it because I was 25 with a 10am-6pm work schedule and a short commute, so I'd wake up, get ready, make coffee, write as much as I could in whatever time I had left and continue on the next day--I usually hit 1,500-2,500 words a day/in 1.5-2 hour blocks?

Ten years later with more worries, a different schedule, and less energy I could not keep up that pace.

Someday I will actually finish that mofo.