Oh, I agree about how a little bit of deadline pressure can be helpful *looks askance at my over-crowded no-deadline plotbunny hutch* -- just that now I'll be doing fests that have a deadline but don't have a penalty if you end up still-a-WIP-after-deadline (example: the "Psychic Wolves for Lupercalia" fanworks fest that I do every February is like "if you can't post it this February, come back and post it next February").