I look at a lot of stuff that people submit every day into the flash portal and on the front page, and so much of it is unoriginal and not well developed at that. I mean, it's true that you have to practice a lot to really get there, but you should also try to make something your own so that when you're done, people know it was YOU who worked on it, and that you really put something of yourself into it. I don't have the time or energy to put together flash-projects and submit them, so i do respect the artist who spend time putting these things together.