I had a few fics recced to me from that fest, but I just...can't. There's no way I would respond to them fairly.

The losing-confidence part happened for me when I had a certain idea for a story and then, about halfway through, read a very harsh critique of that idea that made a good argument for it not working the way I thought it did. So I couldn't write the story without having the argument in the back of my mind.

I've been going back through fest prompts, too! Some of them make really interesting stories in my mind that weren't written for the fest, so I might write them someday.