Look for Trazoi's guide, it makes everything easier.
Nothing really, though sometimes it gets heavenly fast.
Shift for a perfect circle, a rectangle and 4 sticks, and that's pretty much it...
I could get a scholarship by Fireworking for about a week and then exposing my design to a jury, not worth it though, not like I wanted to go to Graphic Design anyway, but it just happened to pop up as a conversation topic on the Graphic Design course I'm taking.
I plan on doing that as well the month before the university admission exam. And during my whole stay through it.