And the really depressing thing is that all that stress and rushing is mostly self inflicted

I don't have to do the dreams contest. I probably don't have a chance in hell to win or even get to the semi finals. Why stress myself out making an entry? But there's money. And a new wacom. And a new edition of adobe...and with such prices even the professionals will be coming out of the woodwork to join in. I know I'm not going to get any of it but I still feel this compulsive urge to jump into it anyway. Damn you false expectations!

Ah well, enough of the winging. I've been really losing steam on the whole participating bit in this community. When the new critique system made it's debut I thought it would be a good opportunity to give out the sort of comments I like to give, which is mostly useful ones.

Just giving praise and rosy words seems just a bit superfluous to me, because if it truly is fantastic they probably already know and have a few hundred other people telling them so quite frequently. But again I discovered that there are people who'll ask for critique, either not knowing what critique is, maybe assuming it would just be more elaborate praise, or decided after getting some they didn't like the look of it after all. And after spending my time writing half a page worth of stuff it's a bit of a disappointment to be brushed off or even rebuked.

But in a new optimistic give I've joined which seems pretty lively and active and generally contains people who know not to ask for what they do not want.

So far no one has bitten my head off, which is all a girl could ask for

And now I'll brew up some tea and continue spending my time on a fruitless endeavor, trying to compete with professionals and the awesome.

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