[Artemisia] help and hints for Kingdom A&S

[Cat]

Now if I weren't an arrogant self-satisfied art-lout completely  
convinced that no one can beat me or even come close to my levels of  
spiffitude, I wouldn't be sharing my secrets with you all on my tried- 
and-true winning methods of sinking the competition in arts  
competitions, but I'm above all that... (wow, how was that for a goad  
to enter A&S and beat me? huh? huh? Gonna enter? Gonna bury me, huh?  
huh?)

Seriously now (yes, I can be serious once a decade or so), to help  
everyone beat me at kingdom A&S this year, I will recommend to you my  
short piece on how to document stuff for A&S competitions.  I threw  
it together one evening several years ago for a class at an event  
here in M Eyes several years back to help folks do their  
documentation for what was then an upcoming A&S competition in the  
barony.  I recently went back and reread what I wrote and decided it  
wasn't as badly done as I remembered.  It does have some really ugly  
misspellings and typos - but that's par for the course, I'm afraid,  
for me and my misspelling brain and my fumbling fingers.  So ignore  
the bad spelling and the typos and look at the content.  It will tell  
exactly how I do the documentation for all my entries and it's a  
formula that has worked really well for me for years and years.  I  
say it in black and white in my article and I will say it here too:  
for the format that we use in formal-rules criteria-category form of  
the A&S Championship, with all other things being equal between  
entries, you will win or lose in large part based on your  
documentation.  My article lays out the reasons why - so I will not  
go into them here.  But since good documentation is what may make or  
break your entries (especially if you're serious about putting my  
arrogant artsy-fartsy butt in its place), it behooves to study how to  
do your docs right.  Documentation is not really difficult if you  
know how to structure it and my article will give a useful outline on  
how to do just that and do it well.

Therefore, I encourage to drop by:
http://www.rocks4brains.com/~cat/HowToA&S.pdf
and study what it says there if you want to have a hope of burying me  
come May...

ttfn,
Therasia the insufferably smug