I'm with rahirah. Props to those of you who do them, but that's just not how my brain works. In fact, I actually have three prompts from people that I'm supposed to be writing, but haven't come up with any ideas yet (and one of them is from three months ago!!).

I've done a few fics (mainly drabbles) that were based on prompts or requests, but I certainly wouldn't count them among my best. (Er, unless you include "Closure" as a challenge fic, but since I was answering my own challenge, I don't think it counts.)

I always need to write things that inspire me, but I'd hardly call it easy. (I'm trying really hard not to get offended by that, because some of it has been torture to write, so it kinda burns to hear it dismissed as easy.) The fics that can be written without too much effort are the ones that get thrown out in the idea stage because there's nothing original or unique about them. Hell, I probably hold myself to a higher standard than any challenge community could ever do for me.