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Exchange fatigue
Oct. 25th, 2021 11:13 pmThis would've been my 12th Yuletide if I had signed up. It feels weird to not be working on a Yuletide assignment at this time of the year, but I needed a break for several reasons:
- I've been a ph (sometimes initial, sometimes not, often lingering) for far too many times this year (MFTF being a case in point - as of yesterday, I was still lingering from being an initial ph, and it's now past the exchange deadline).
- I've had a few non-commenting or less-enthusiastic recips in the past year or two (and half the fun of exchanges is seeing my recip's comment on the fic I wrote them).
- I've had to set aside non-exchange fics I was having fun writing in order to write an exchange fic (multiple times) and by the time I could get back to them I no longer had the writing flow/inspiration for them.
- I've been just so busy with work and Yahoo Groups (which I desperately need to get to a point I can dump work back onto volunteers) that the thought of having to take time away from those projects to work on a fic assignment hasn't been very appealing.
- I've been tired of struggling to find one person I can write for in an exchange (due to having so few fandoms I can actually write, most of them tiny and little known)—and indeed, there was only one person I could've written anything for this year, and it would've been a challenge since they gave absolutely no prompts and I didn't have any specific ideas for the pair of characters.
So I'm sitting this one out. Will re-evaluate how I feel about it all come Chocolate Box time (the next exchange I usually do). But given that Leverage is now in the same boat that X-Men movies are for me (where the canon continued beyond the point I have or will probably consume it, meaning it is probably no longer safe for me to offer it), I'll be back to struggling to find offers (Leverage was my go-to last year and I hadn't exhausted it yet), and that may put a kibosh on exchanges for a while. I'll have to see…
- I've been a ph (sometimes initial, sometimes not, often lingering) for far too many times this year (MFTF being a case in point - as of yesterday, I was still lingering from being an initial ph, and it's now past the exchange deadline).
- I've had a few non-commenting or less-enthusiastic recips in the past year or two (and half the fun of exchanges is seeing my recip's comment on the fic I wrote them).
- I've had to set aside non-exchange fics I was having fun writing in order to write an exchange fic (multiple times) and by the time I could get back to them I no longer had the writing flow/inspiration for them.
- I've been just so busy with work and Yahoo Groups (which I desperately need to get to a point I can dump work back onto volunteers) that the thought of having to take time away from those projects to work on a fic assignment hasn't been very appealing.
- I've been tired of struggling to find one person I can write for in an exchange (due to having so few fandoms I can actually write, most of them tiny and little known)—and indeed, there was only one person I could've written anything for this year, and it would've been a challenge since they gave absolutely no prompts and I didn't have any specific ideas for the pair of characters.
So I'm sitting this one out. Will re-evaluate how I feel about it all come Chocolate Box time (the next exchange I usually do). But given that Leverage is now in the same boat that X-Men movies are for me (where the canon continued beyond the point I have or will probably consume it, meaning it is probably no longer safe for me to offer it), I'll be back to struggling to find offers (Leverage was my go-to last year and I hadn't exhausted it yet), and that may put a kibosh on exchanges for a while. I'll have to see…
