What to Do?

Hmmmm....What to do?

I'd planned to let myself sign up for three fests this spring, and I'd planned for them to be femmefest, hp_beholder, and hp_rarities. I've already signed up for femmefest, and hp_beholder is a given.

But the hp_rarities sign-ups have opened, and they already have 30 participants. Last year's fest featured excellent stories with pairs like Umbridge/Filch and Snape/Regulus. And while I know I will enjoy reading stories for many of the pairings that people have requested this year, so far, there are only a couple of prompts that I'd find really exciting to write. At a totally non-scientific, skimming guess, I see that about 90% of the requests are for pairings of characters from the Trio era and/or next-gen. There's the occasional request for Snape or a Marauder or Lucius, but not many. I've gotten to the point at which I enjoy being challenged to write new characters or pairings. But when I think of the new pairings I'd like to write, they usually feature at least one teacher or older person or oddity like Dudley or Goyle. When I think about actually trying to write Blaise or Theodore Nott or Angelina or Cedric or Dean or Zacharias or Teddy Lupin, I'm not sure I could capture my own attention. So perhaps I'd be better off signing up for something else...

...like springtime_gen -- the sign-ups for which are still open for another few hours. And there are some fabulous prompts there already. But I love exploring relationships in stories; I'm not sure I could do justice to gen. On the other hand, one of my writing resolutions for this year is to write more gen...But if I sign up, will I regret not doing hp_rarities when all those requests for Irma and Umbridge and Moody and Neville and Walburga and Arthur and Aberforth and Augusta start pouring in? (and I am not going to sign up for both; I'm going to be strong.)

Am I a completely pathetic, compulsively-indecisive waffler who needs to get an RL?

Evidently. /g/