Thankfully we only get those letters from people we talk to on a fairly regular basis - anything else usually goes through the filtering process of our parents, since we've yet to get on any "important" friends' mailing lists. I don't mind a bit - getting stuff like that only serves to remind me that I've failed spectacularly every year of my marriage to get any cards out at all.

I know what story I'm going to write, and I'm making notes on it now, but I haven't actually started it yet, so it very well could end up being far more monstrous than it should be.

It's nice to have a mix of story lengths, you know. The question is whether or not a longer fic will drive you nuts and take away too much time from your own Christmas preparations. Don't worry about it being long. Long = more R/T. How can that be a bad thing? ;)