I have noticed a few things in my first attempt at RPG Superstar.
1. How helpful the boards were.
2. How I tended to always fall back to my original idea.
3. How I tended to over think things.
4. It takes practice.
5. Last but not least, how long a month really is.
8. There are over 2,600 posts in over 120 threads, even though there's really nothing to talk about yet.
9. Proof Read, walk away, Proof Read again, fix error you did not see the first time.
10. Next Day, proof read again and find another wording error.
12) the spell check feature is your friend.
13) the enemy of your enemy is possibly your friend
14) People worry about stupid things, such as....Intellectual Property Rights.
15) Apricot. Think about it.
16) Don't forget to occasionally read your item out loud! What might look good on paper could turn to long unpleasant sentences from your mouth.
19. Writing from experience is easier then writing fiction. What I mean is it is easier to write about something you have personally experienced then putting pen to paper for ideas, thoughts, or dreams.
I have found not only through this contest, though it is my 1st year competing, but also through my past experiences writing poetry, songs, or short stories that it isn't always easy to put that idea you have in your head down on paper. It just doesn't always look, feel, or sound the same as it did when it was in your head. While writing about an experience seems to flow from the pen to the paper. May just be me who knows.
20) Entitlement
21) Elitism
One must walk the moonlit path, straying close to neither.
I have noticed a few things in my first attempt at RPG Superstar.
1. How helpful the boards were.
2. How I tended to always fall back to my original idea.
3. How I tended to over think things.
4. It takes practice.
5. Last but not least, how long a month really is.
There was a funny study they did on testing once. In the study they found that people that stuck to their first answer when given the chance to change it generally were right. Those that changed it said their main reason for doing so was over thinking it because they weren't sure and didn't study it enough before hand. Basically put they were given too much time to think and didn't have enough practice with the skill.
If that study has anything to it I would say you probably avoided several serious pitfalls, so great job!
23) Contentiousness (or perhaps competitiveness, benefit of the doubt)
To me at least, Entitlement is when people expect the right to something... without having earned it (no claim through merit). A sense of entitlement being nearly brattish.
Elitism, on the other hand... is what I see in people who have accomplished or earned a thing (just as likely through merit), but feel that because they have... they are better or above others.
In some weird way, they complement eachother... like bookends. I nearly agreed thinking they were too close, both working against open, friendly collaboration which can exist even in a contest like this.
Then I decided, they were different enough.
Peace.