Yup, what everyone else said. An example would be my Zelda fic winning second place last summer. I was proud of myself. ^^
Wanna do as good as I did? Practice hard at your writing. Take the criticism people give you and even look at the works of other good writers, such as Selah or Power Shot. In fact, Selah was the one who beat me by one mere vote last summer. It was close.
