I am debating how much deadline adrenaline rush I want to surf this holiday season. I mean, I am doing Yuletide; that is non-negotiable. I will probably also do Ladystuck again, because fuck yeah Homestuck and fuck yeah female character-centric fanworks! The thing is, this year there is apparently also a Homestuck-only holiday fic and art exchange -- Giftstuck -- which will be opening for signups soon. And the Narnia Fic Exchange Xmas card drabble thingy may run again, and it could be fun to participate in that too...
Right now, I feel like I could handle all of that, no problem! I am on fire in terms of creativity. But, see, that's only right now. I know all too well how easily that feeling can pass. One can never assume that the gray fog and emptiness aren't lurking in ambush. (Okay, one can assume that if one doesn't have a history of periodic clinical depression, but let's not quibble details, yeah?)
I want to Do All The Things, but man, I'd hate to sign up all optimistic and then have to drop out of exchanges left and right if life happens at me and/or my brain chemistry fucks off to Siberia between now and New Year's Day.
...Actually I'd probably shove through by pure mechanical determination -- which is more or less what I did with Yuletide and Ladystuck last year (though I could not repeat the trick for my Narnia Big Bang when the fog lingered through February-ish, alas) -- but that's not my ideal experience. Then again, I suspect I would have been just as gray and miserable even if I hadn't been participating in those exchanges, and I wouldn't have created those two fics to hold as talismans against the emptiness, so...
Eh, screw it. I will sign up for everything. It is never the wrong time to write.