Commitment
I just signed up for the severusbigbang. Since having read Deathly Hallows, I felt that I should write one (final) Snape story that means some closure for me. I've played around with ideas, took notes, researched a little bit, revisited certain scenes in the books, but in the end I never came close to writing the story. I hope that having signed up now makes me feel committed to finally write it.

I know that it's possible to bow out of the severusbigbang - at least if one does so timely enough - but I really hope that I won't do so. I signed up for a short fic at colourful_bat last winter, which I never finished and still feel bad about. Since it wasn't an exchange, I "only" let down the organisor and the potential readers, which is bad enough, but the one person I truly let down was myself. I feel bad for not reaching a goal I set for myself.

This time it just has to work. I haven't written any fan fic or original fic for ages, and I start getting the feeling that I will never do so again if I don't manage to write and also finish some story soon.