Well, both genarti and I are big participants in yuletide, so we want to make sure we don't overlap too much with that, as well as NaNoWriMo and other big writing enterprises - so in other words, all times are basically bad/busy, yeah. :D And also I have a feeling that if we waited too long, I'd turn chicken and it would never actually happen. >.> Hence the full-speed-ahead momentum!