CONTEST TIME!!!!

The reason why I, personally, implemented this restriction is to give people who have no knowledge of the theme the chance to do research and plan or even brainstorm. I want to give them a reason to open their horizons to new cultures, ideas, and events. It would've been the same with the other theme choices, maybe more for some and less for others. 
The other reason is to give those who do have an idea have time to make plans to create and come up with their own schedules so that they can dedicate time, even if the contest won't end till Halloween. 

I give everyone a chance to participate in the creative things I do when I ask for opinions, all I ask in return is to give everyone else who do not have their knowledge or ability a chance as well. It's also why I set up a poll asking if people would rather have the contest start in June so they can get started creating or use the extra month before the contest to plan and research. 

In the end, contests are tests, are they not, to your creativity. It's already restricted to one subject or theme, challenging you to concentrate your artistic abilities into one subject. 
However, this theme for this contest is so broad in all of the possible ideas that can be possibly created that it calls for some restrictions to give everyone a sporting chance. 

And if they respect my wishes for keeping things fair across the board as I can get it to be, they will not start the entries early. I find mostly greed for the prize would be the main reason to break that wish. Of course, there are many who have too many ideas and the interest is akin to a gnat's attention span, I suffer from this as well, so it's my challenge to people similar to I and you to try and control our muses and funnel our art as we want instead of the other way around and take our time instead of rushing in as though the world is ending tomorrow. 

I've been working on my controlling my own muse and it's difficult, but if I can slowly do it, I know you and others like us can. I believe in you. Always will because you are an amazing artist with amazing ideas. I know you can do it. :3


As to how I will know if they did start early, well, I won't, but they will have to live with the guilt that they cheated one simple wish. They won't have just cheated me or the other contest participants, but they will have cheated themselves of the chance to broaden their abilities as artists. What do I mean by that? 

Well, allowing oneself to be driven by our muse is amazing when she is loving, but we become lost when she disappears, leaving us to flail and lament the loss of creativity. 
This, in the end, is my way of trying to help and show other artists that we are the masters of our own muse; our muse may have a the gas pedal, but we hold the wheel and the breaks. Whether we use them is a different matter and I want to help in that. 


If all of that made any sense anyway. XD You can of course choose to see this as a cruel requirement, but life is cruel and I find this wish of mine nothing more than giving others a chance to learn about many things, the biggest one is patience.
We can all use the chance to learn control and patience, because, goodness knows, it's in short supply these days among the youth of our own generation. 
You can of course be mad at me for this, I don't mind and I even welcome it, but in the end, what I want to teach is patience is possible with some practice.