Second Creative Writing Challenge Task #5 - A Message from the Past

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Hello everyone,

The previous task has offered an unique challenge and you did a really great job with authentic stories that have all the ingredients to touch, inspire and encourage people to think about what really matters in this life.

We are all with @hristoatanasov and he will soon feel that. We did a great job with the #payitforward tag and the power of your small team has spread the message through the whole Steemit community and beyond. Your stories are probably the first pieces of content about Hristo in English. Yes, they are fictional, however nobody is hiding that. It's based on real facts and it's for a writing contest.

Now I feel like:

I was thinking on how we should proceed from now on. Again, I have a file full with ideas, however somehow I feel that the last one that was born yesterday is the right fit for Task #5.

And here's how the table with entries from Task #4 looks like.

If you don't see your submission here, it's because you have published it after I have started writing this post. It will be added promptly after publishing the post.

Generous sponsors! Let's say it again:

THANK YOU GUYS! YOU REALLY ROCK!


This is a list with our sponsors , their contributions and the total amount of the prize pool. Also, take a look at the shootout below the table.


Let's see who are these 11 Steemit stars that are spicing up our challenge:

@kubbyelizabeth | @juliakponsford | @oleg326756 | @eturnerx | @scrooger | @flemingfarm | @crimsonclad | @sircork | @scaredycatguide | @therovingreader | @em3

SponsorContribution
@kubbyelizabeth8 SBD
@juliakponsford5 SBD
@oleg3267565 SBD
@eturnerx5 SBD
@scrooger5 SBD
@flemingfarm10 SBD
@crimsonclad5 SBD
@sircork10 SBD
@scaredycatguide5 SBD
@therovingreader5 SBD
@em32 SBD
TOTAL75 SBD (+10 SBD from me)


The total amount of the prize pool is 75 SBD. We are in the middle of that second season of the challenge and I'm shooting out to the whole Steemit community. Support this #contest guys. Take a look at what we are doing here and realize the value we bring to the platform. #story and #writing are N11 and N18 of the list with the most used tags for the Steemit posts. Earch round we bring about 15 new stories and most of them are worth reading, sharing and supporting. It's the first time I agressively try to draw your attention to our initiative and I'm doing it, because I feel that it's my responsibility.


What we need to do now is to announce the next task.


Task #5: A message from the past


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Guys,

Let me introduce you to Adam. He's a 25 years old man that has graduated from University of South Florida. His undergraduate program was done at the College of Arts & Sciences and his favorite course was the Creative Writing course. Adam never had a girlfriend, although he felt in love few times for the past 7 years. He had a lot of free time now and instead of hanging out with friends he has decided to devote time on recording a special message.

One morning he woke up with an idea to record a message to his future grandchildren. It would be great for them to see who their grand father was at young age, he said to himself.

It was September 29, 2017. A rainy day. The perfect atmosphere to finally start working on his message.


A message from the Past



Dear grandchildren, he started.*

I'm Adam, your grandfather. I know what are you thinking about :) I'm that young, because I'm recording this in 2017 and I'm only 25. Cool, isn't it? :)

At the moment of watching this video you might be already 10 years old older. I don't know your names, how you look like and the strange thing is that I don't even know if you exist.


Your task guys, is to finish Adam's message.

NB! This is important - women could change Adam's name with a woman's name and you can could write a message as the kids grandmother. If you like Adam though feel free to remain with him.

This is another great opportunity for exercising and improving your creative writing. I'm already impatient to see your stories :)


Final words


Submit the URL to your post in the comments

If you see any kind of flaws or errors in Task #5 feel please let me know as soon as possible.

Hopefully most of you will be able to finish the task on time. The deadline is this Monday, October 2 by Midnight EST.

Enjoy it!

Keep writing,
@steemfluencer

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That's a pleasant surprise!!!!! :DD Thank you for the time and efforts. Did you enjoy working on that task?

Ya, I found this one had a lot of different directions I could go, so I picked the one I found the most interesting and ran with it. Hope you like it!

Will take a more detailed look tomorrow. Yes, I would do the same. There are so many scenarios, so many approaches..

@steemfluencer, I like your ideas for your contests, so I decided to jump in the middle of this challenge, just for fun and also to practice my english. Good luck to the real participants!
My entry

Dear Ant, that's a great compliment for my work! Thank you! Yes, feel free to practice your English, the same way I'm doing it by the way :) Invite your friends as well if some of them are also interested in the same.

@steemfluencer, also you are very creative to put to fly our imagination, I love this challenge, I hope that of my mind they flow beautiful words .....

Thanks @edurley! Seems like I'm in a good shape after the inspirational Task #4 :)

I will try to write for this contest... thank you for bringing this contest, anyway... his is a great way to help others to have great new idea and writing. Best regards from Indonesia.

Greetings to Indonesia! And welcome in the challenge!!! :)

Have been enjoying the writing challenges. Thanks for the opportunities to improve my skills. Hope you are receiving my entries as I have yet to see my name posted on the last couple of challenges. Hope you are enjoying this contest. 🐓🐓

Oh, I'm going to check all the tasks and if I've missed you somewhere, I'll fix that. I'm really sorry - any type of misses are not intentional.

I am sure there is no intent. Just wanted to make sure you were receiving my stories. Many thanks 🐓🐓

You are welcome. I'm now checking the first two challenges, just for in case.

Absolutely. What's even more surprising is that I didn't really plan such type of story and task, however look what have happened - people are happy.. even few more has joined :)

I deleted it, however in the previous version I Eva was mentioned in the task an alternative name and character. Nice! :)

Can I still do this task if I missed the last one? Sorry about that...

Of course you can :) Go ahead! :) We just need to be peculiar towards the SBD prize. Last time I think @cristof made 8 out of 9 and it was honest as he admitted, to be put out of the SBD prize pool. However, all the rest of the rewards, you got them!

Completed kind sir! :-) Task #5 - Back in Time

Well done, dear sir! :)

Hello! I'm new in steemit and I really liked your challenge, so I made an entry:

https://steemit.com/creativecomp/@maeugenia/second-creative-writing-challenge-task-5-advices-from-the-past

I don't know if I can still be a part of it, but I'd like to try!

Sure. Welcome in the challenge! You can participate. Thank you for submitting your entry for task #5 ! :)

Title looks promising. Will take a more detailed look tomorrow.

Nice, and welcome to the challenge! I'll include your post in the next update.

Many thanks @steemfluencer for the welcome and for accepting my post.

Indeed! :) You are already 2 representative examples for the ones who still submit their stories under the wire.. !

Hii, this is my entry: https://steemit.com/writing/@alemars16/second-creative-challenge-task-5-a-letter-that-will-go-down-in-history :) I think this is the earliest I've ever done it xD

Good to see you breaking your own record. Keep up with the same direction! :)

Here is my entry for this task. There were so many different directions to go with this. It could have gone on and on endlessly. I finally just had to pick a stopping point and call it a day, otherwise I would still be writing it a week from now!

A moment Captured in Time - https://steemit.com/writing/@mikepm74/steemfluencer-s-2nd-writing-challenge-task-5-a-moment-captured-in-time