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In the process of reading through all the Dear Yuletide Writer letters I've stumbled across a prompt that is EXACTLY what I want to write for Yuletide, to the point where I've already started planning out a fic. *facepalm* And now I'm pre-emptively disappointed that I'm most likely not going to be assigned that request! (I have been considering narrowing down my eight offers to four, the minimum, but I realise that attempting to game the system in that way is a) against the spirit of Yuletide, and b) not likely to work anyway.)

I would just write an extra treat for that person but it's the sort of fic that would really need a lot of research and I wouldn't want to sideline my actual assignment.

OH MY GOD WHY AM I WORRYING ABOUT THIS BEFORE ASSIGNMENTS HAVE EVEN GONE OUT. /ridiculous

In other news, for some reason I had a Glee-related dream last night. It involved Cory Monteith and Mark Salling randomly deciding to switch characters, so Cory was playing Puck and Mark was playing Finn. It was as hilariously terrible as you would imagine.

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I know how you feel! That happened to me last year, though I ended up focusing on my assignment -- and stupidly enough, writing the story I'd been dying to write as a pinch hit. Which was a terrible idea, because I hate how that pinch hit turned out. /o\ Anyway, this year I've already bookmarked over a dozen DYW letters -- thankfully this year I'm not OMGMUSTSTARTNOW about writing any of the requests yet, and the ones I have ideas for seem like they'd make good short fics, thank god.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who does this! Last year I spent more time on my pinch hit than my main assignment and I felt guilty about that. I'm just hoping that my actual assignment this year ends up being so great that I want to focus on that instead of this one perfect prompt.