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I'm posting this now with the idea that I'll put a link to it in my Yuletide sign up to make it easier to find if my request goes to a pinch hitter or if my assigned writer needs to find it again a while after assignments go out.

I'm cutting this because it's unlikely to interest anyone but whoever gets assigned to write for me.

( To my Yuletide writer )

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And now I've signed up for Yuletide. I listed about 100 fandoms that I could write. I'm now looking at the list and feeling terrified about half of them. I put them on the list because I was pretty sure I could write them and either knew the canon quite well or have easy access to it for reviewing bits and pieces. It's just my standard anxiety attack combined with a fear that I'll get a request that I somehow *can't* write.

Is my knowledge of book canon X too contaminated by having seen the movie based on it? (Or the other way around?)

Do I have time to review the entire canon if I have to?

Can I write if I get an assignment in a completely real world setting with no magic, time travel, science fiction elements or other weirdness?

Can I write romance? Can I write mystery? Can I write [fill in the blank]?

Am I going to get a request for an obscure character who I don't remember?

If I get matched for a fandom with a historical setting, will I need to do more research than I have time for?

Will I actually enjoy writing fandom Y?

All the standard anxiety attack questions after a Yuletide signup. ::sighs::

The answer, of course, is that I *can* do all of it, even if I match on something I'm wibbling over. I'll still have fun (I like a challenge). Plus, I've got a bit of time to reconsider my choices. With so many fandoms selected, I hesitate to change anything just because I'm anxious. If I do change anything, I'll probably either cut back the fandoms in which I've offered only specific characters or change some of them to 'any.' Those are the fandoms that are the largest pain in the butt to redo the sign up for, after all.

Is it better to offer a lot of fandoms, including some that provoke anxiety, or is it better to offer fewer fandoms, sticking to the stuff I'm sure of? Bearing in mind that, no matter what I do, I'll always find something over which to be obsessively anxious. Generalized anxiety being like that.