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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Macbeth" data-source="post: 1203285" data-attributes="member: 11259">Just write, and you'll do fine.I have to admit that, before Cermic Dm, I had never wrote fiction before. NEVER. The publicschool system does not do a whole lot to encourage creative writing. i could write essays, in fact i could write very good essays (800 verbal SAT, 5 AP English, my High School's Senior English Awrad), but I had no idea about writing fiction. I tried anyway, and I found that, not only can I write fiction better then I thought, but that I really like writing fiction. I made it to the second round, lost to a very tallented writer, felt a bit foolish, and then realized how much I had gained. Even though I didn't know how to write fiction I threw in my entries and had a grand time. Just try it, you'll like it.Also, all this talk about Cermic DM/Iron DM has got me thinking: are any ENWorlder's active in <a href="http://www.destinationimagination.org/" target="_blank">Destination Imagination</a>/<a href="http://www.odysseyofthemind.com/" target="_blank">Odyssey of the Mind</a>? DI and OM share alot of similarities with these timed creativity contests, and I was wondering if any ENWorlder's (beside myslef) particpate in these.For BardStephenFox in particular, if you want to see some great examples of creativity in the same vein as Iron/Ceramic DM, there's the DI state tournament in Albequerque in March (I think, I can't remember the exact date).</blockquote>