Aw, c'mon, you should sign up for Yuletide - I mean, not to sound negative, but do you really think all eleven-hundred people who signed up last year were writing geniuses? True, some were - and some amazing fics get written every year, but ... it's just fun. You should sign up. You can always bow out, penalty free, if you really can't get your request to work and do it early enough.