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Yes, it's another Yuletide-related post; sorry to those who are sick of it. <3 But only sort of.

So Yuletide has several awesome things: a story written specifically for me; stories in fandoms that I love that don't get a lot of attention; stories that are complete crack; and, sometimes, feedback on the stories that I write.

What it has done for me this year is help me re-understand that I can write. I've been in a dry spell for so long, and some of it is perfectionism pre-paralysis ("it won't be good enough, so I can't even try") and some of it is overthinking things and some of it is just plain not forcing myself to write.

And. With Yuletide, I got a story written, and then I got another story written in two days (pinch hit), and another story written in about four hours (a treat where a story I've been wanting to write lined up with one of the available prompts) and I am, bizarrely enough for me, actually fairly pleased with the stories.

So. Now I just need to, you know, actually do more writing.