It's certainly been a challenge this year to turn down the RL distractions (read politics) and concentrate on writing fanfic. I honestly thought for a while that I wasn't going to be able to come up with an idea and have to take a pass this year. Not a good feeling!

Fortunately, something finally came to me and it's clicking along, slow but sure. I'm pretty optimistic that I'll get it wrapped up in time.

Good luck to you both with your writing, and whomever else is working to get something for the ficfest! It's been quite a drought on AO3 for FK. Hopefully we can remedy that!