If it weren't for challenges I literally would have written no fanfic. If it weren't for fantas_magoria starting at the beginning and feeling like somewhere I might dip my toes in, I also wouldn't have written anything.

I need deadlines. Ideally, I need to feel like I'd let someone down if I didn't write something (hence ficathons are best of all). Yes, sometimes it means churning something out, but it's rare that just having a prompt doesn't start something if you leave it long enough in the backbrain. Like you, I envy those who have their own inspiration and motivation. I need something external!

Though my own evil prompt at grazie_prego "Fuschia, whirlpool, spellbound" (oddly, no one took me up on it) still haunts me. What in hell would I Spangel about it? Could it be other than crack?