Just as a quick note - I assume when you say "as a normal person", you mean you're not disabled. I just want to let you know "normal" is rather loaded terminology when it comes to disability - and kind of painful for me to read. "Temporarily able-bodied" (or TAB for short) is the usual terminology, I use "currently abled" or "currently enabled" myself because I feel it's less exclusive of neuroatypical people, "nondisabled" also gets thrown around although it's somewhat problematic due to defining via negative - anyway, any of those is much preferable to "normal" and I'd be really grateful if you used one of them instead.
And I can totally understand that, but there are people who might be able to produce X but who won't be able to under strict challenges. Like, say, if I have a 30% chance of producing fic for a prompt that drops to 10% once you factor in the stress caused by the strict deadline and needing to somehow tell people I might not be able to make it, I definitely won't sign up for that mod's challenge, so they have no chance of getting an X fic from me. However, if they put out a more relaxed challenge, and I join, there is admittedly a 70% chance of me dropping out - but it'll be a lot less stressful for me, and the mod wouldn't have got anything from me anyway if they'd made the challenge stricter - and a 30% chance of getting fic that would not otherwise have been written.
There's of course the question of how much time the mod wants to invest for a 30% chance of fic, and I'm probably outnumbered by the people who work better under pressure... but I mainly want to point out that I and people like me *do exist* and I get the impression a lot of people don't realise that - they think that increasing pressure = increasing productivity for everyone.
Plus, I still think that even a very strict challenge could provide things like a form e-mail or comment if you need to drop out, because it doesn't seem as if it would be that much work to put up and I really cannot describe how much easier that would make things for me.
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And I can totally understand that, but there are people who might be able to produce X but who won't be able to under strict challenges. Like, say, if I have a 30% chance of producing fic for a prompt that drops to 10% once you factor in the stress caused by the strict deadline and needing to somehow tell people I might not be able to make it, I definitely won't sign up for that mod's challenge, so they have no chance of getting an X fic from me. However, if they put out a more relaxed challenge, and I join, there is admittedly a 70% chance of me dropping out - but it'll be a lot less stressful for me, and the mod wouldn't have got anything from me anyway if they'd made the challenge stricter - and a 30% chance of getting fic that would not otherwise have been written.
There's of course the question of how much time the mod wants to invest for a 30% chance of fic, and I'm probably outnumbered by the people who work better under pressure... but I mainly want to point out that I and people like me *do exist* and I get the impression a lot of people don't realise that - they think that increasing pressure = increasing productivity for everyone.
Plus, I still think that even a very strict challenge could provide things like a form e-mail or comment if you need to drop out, because it doesn't seem as if it would be that much work to put up and I really cannot describe how much easier that would make things for me.