Steemit Challenge - Season 28 Week-1 : Zany and the tiny colored dragon

Dear Steemians,

"I welcome you to the First Week of Season 28 of the Steemit Challenge, Duration Monday, November 17th- 23rd November, 2025 ."

Steemit Challenge Season 28 brings you an opportunity for "Creative Writing", allowing your imagination to go as wide as you allow it to, but I want you to come up with a story full of real life-facts which provide your readers a true sensation yet take them to the world of fantasy.

Let's see how you create a story based on the prompt provided below:

The prompt of the week : Zany and the tiny colored dragon

 

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A world where emotions are physically manifested as creatures roaming the streets. The rain had been falling all afternoon, turning the city streets into gray and lonely. Zany pulled her hood tight, the cold wind pressing against her skin like a reminder of how alone she felt. That’s when she saw a moving figure weaving colors through the mist.

Zany froze as she saw a bright and fluttering tiny colored dragon dancing just beyond the puddle at the edge on the street. She remembered everyone said small dragons appear when you least expected them, but she never thought she’d see one ever.

It floated toward her, its wings casting sparkles on her wet jeans. She felt as if all the dullness around her seemed to pulse with color now. She held out her hand, trembling.

The dragon landed softly on her fingers, and in that moment she felt the heaviness in her chest lifted just a little. She managed to smile feeling something she hadn’t in forever. Was it a spark of joy? They moved together into the evening, light trailing behind them....

You have to continue from here giving us the version of this teenager's perceptive of discovery, loneliness, and hope aligned with the prompt to deepen emotional connection and growth with whatever you feel they two did that evening.

Points to build your story around:

A great starting scenario
The use of language
The use of melodrama
The conversation
Story ends that leave an impact with a twist, evoke emotions, imply continuation, or provide closure in a satisfying way.

Let's us see how your imagination works for you?

Please note:

A well-crafted creative story provides an engaging plot, including how you unfold it, what actions your characters take, and how they interact with each other and proceed with the project.

• Your readers should enjoy what conversations your characters are having.
• Remember, you have to make your story meaningful through all these choices, and your marks will be based on all these facts.
• Please read the prompt carefully, noting how a story will work and seizes the imagination of the prompt.
• No greetings, etc. but come to the story straight away!
• Make your story stand out with an original concept, unexpected plot twists, or memorable characters.

This contest offers participants the opportunity to show their creativity in story writing niche as I expect participants to venture into the world of imagination and bring out their skills, and create breathtaking stories.

Contest Rules

 

Article Title: "Steemit Challenge s28wk1 : Zany and the tiny colored dragon

• Your post must be on your blog only and not in any community.

• Paste the post link of your post in the comment section of this post.

• Resteem this post. Voting on this post is your choice.

• If two or more participants score equal points we shall decide the winner based on post's quality, and team's internal decision or lucky wheel and that will be final.

• Your post must be at least 500 words and a maximum of 800 words (Prompt not included in word count).

• Your post must be free from plagiarism and AI, which will disqualify you from this contest.

• Share your post on any social media platform of your choice and share the link in comment section of your post.

• All Steemians acceptable barring the ones currently powering down.

• Use no more than two copyright-free images with proper sourcing for instance from pixabay, Pexels, etc. besides a thumbnail.

• Participants must not use the official contest thumbnail or images.

Post only on your Blog.

Participants can write in any language supported by Google Translate, or Deepl translator but must not deviate significantly from the given story prompt.
Tags: Mandatory First Tag #writing-s28wk1
Other tags #yourcountry #club if any and other suitable tags like #steemexclusive.
Use # burnsteem tag only if you set null as beneficiary @25%.
Invite three friends to participate in this contest. For instance, @jyoti-thelight, @suboohi and @kouba01

Timeline:

This contest starts on Monday, 17th November 2025 at 00:01 UTC and ends on Sunday, 23rd November 2025, at 23:59 UTC. Posts submitted before or after will not be considered.

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Rewards:

SC01 upvotes will reward the top 6 participants based on our recommendation every week but expect votes from SC02 randomly on outstanding contributions.
Points

Your Points Based on:

Criteria	Marks	Remarks
Story start to finish	0/5
Originality & Uniqueness	0/3
Presentation	0/1
My observation	0/1
Total	0/10
Feedback	---
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Your creativity and hard work will shine through in every sentence you write. Best of luck!

Cc. @steemitblog