If you haven't read the pre-launch posts #1 & #2, stay here, because I'm about to summarize everything in this post.

It was four days ago (Saturday, July 29) when I published the first announcement about the Creative Writing Challenge. It came as a natural extension of the recent writing challenge organized by @merej99.

This time we'll be paying attention to creative writing. Once developed, this skill is able to persuade people in taking certain decisions, melt hearts, inspire and motivate large groups of people, encourage the same groups or communities to be supportive to a certain cause, etc., etc.

Because words, my dear folks, aren't as ingenuous, as we might have thought at a younger age. Words are a weapon able to renew relationships, build skyscrapers, unite enemies, you name it.

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Now:

Do me a simple favor and let me know:

Why wouldn't you want to sharpen your creative writing skills?

Aren't words like powerful weapons for you?

Do you think it's worth investing the time you are given into getting to know yourself better by accepting my request to take part in this creative writing challenge?

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Here are my personal reasons to become a better story teller:

• I'd like to tell the exciting stories of extraordinary people living their remarkable life out of their comfort zone and challenging the status quo
• Be able to create amazing stories based on simple ground like an old picture
• Tell my own story (probably not in the next 5 years, but still.. would be nice to be well prepared by then:))

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If you feel that there's a writer deep inside you and this nature is looking forward to be out, then do not waste the time you are given anymore.

This creative writing challenge is a golden opportunity for boosting your inner creativity and leading you to a brand new, better version of yourself.

Are you ready to jump with me in this new challenge?

Price pool

The current prize pool is 10 SBD. It will be increased and we are looking for sponsors to donate 1, 5, 10 or any other nice looking number of SBD.

Rules

In a sequence of 9 posts you'll receive a different creative writing challenge to write and publish on your own Steemit blog. It will be like a game and those of you who cope with all the tasks will share the price pool at the end. People who end up close enough to the finish line will be rewarded as well.

If you are patient enough, you'll still see a table with the dates of all the 9 challenges in advance.

I'll be submitting the instructions in a separate post during the Monday-Friday time frame and we won't count the weekends. Before that, we need to get enough participants with some informative Pre-Launch Posts.

Attention:

Here are few less obvious benefits of taking part in this challenge:

• the expected significant improvement of your creative writing skills
• a chance to build some new healthy writing routines (the same hidden benefit as @merej99's challenge)
• an opportunity to compare your work with the one of your colleagues and discover personal weaknesses to improve
• a connection with other people who share your interests will give you a chance to get and give feedback during the challenge and hereinafter
• other participants will encourage you during the whole challenge - this synergy effect is probably among the strongest benefits of becoming one of the participants

How to take part in the challenge?

If you would like to take part of this journey just leave your comment below and mention that you'd like become one of the challengers.

Current list of challengers:
8 Steemians had the guts to jump in since last Saturday. Thank you for the increasing interest! We are forming a great group of challengers ready to test themselves in the unpredictable waters of the upcoming storm.

Name of challenger
@alemars16
@orii
@rootingrobert
@kubbyelizabeth
@rachelburger
@flemingfarm
@ricardoangulove
@merej99

So:

Greets,
@steemfluencer

P.S. Cover image was made on canva.com