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I received four lovely Frank lunchboxes from fancypantsdylan, kayoko_chan, vaysh11, and anonymous. (I know who you are!). Thank you!

I was having such a hard time trying to finish up my Glompfest fic in time to post it yesterday (I've been suffering from a horrible case of writer's block these past couple months), but groolover and geinahop saved my arse with their speedy beta'ing.

zebrui, whose prompt I wrote for at Glompfest, totally made my day by leaving the longest comment I've ever received. (It's two comments long!)

*glomps all of you*

Now I just need to finally finish that Travel Fair fic...

Title: Liquid Lust
Author: drippingcherry
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco
Word Count: ~2,100
Rating: R
Summary: Aurors are being targeted with a potion previously unknown to the wizarding world. It is up to the Ministry's Potions Master, Draco Malfoy, to find an antidote.
Warnings: Highlight to read [ dark themes, evil!Harry]
A/N: This was written for flaminia_x at hp_porninthesun. I have no explanation for this madness.


( Liquid Lust )

Or do prompts we find difficult to work with somehow push us to produce better writing than those we get all excited about? It seems to always work that way for me. The fics I've dreaded having to write the most, namely Abandoned Destinies, Let the Dead Lie, and Sweets on Fire have turned out to be the most recc'ed. The last two are also my personal favorites.

All three of those have one thing in common: they began as fest assignments that made me go, "Why did I sign up for this?" As I started to write, though, they slowly grew on me. And when they were finished, I was able to say, "Wow, this is actually decent."

And then there are those prompts that I go all gaga over, like this year's Smoochfest (finally submitted it last night). I turn the prompt over and over in my head and think it's going to be so much fun to write and so good when it's done. But all that ever makes it into the page is crap, and I end up wanting to delete my LJ and hide in a corner somewhere because people will be hitting the back button in less time than it takes to say badfic.

Anyone else have this problem?