Hello everyone! :)

The deadline for the first task is approaching in few hours (Midnight EST) If you happen to hear about this Challenge for the first time, here's a link to the first task - submitting a post will automatically sign you up and you could continue further. For more information what actually this Challenge is read here.

Here's the table with all the current submissions and if needed I'll edit it. Pretty impressive list, isn't it?

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A list with entries for Task #1

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Challenger	Entry	.
@ellievallie	Starving Charlie
@mitchelljaworski	Premium Rush
@negativer	Dogs of War
@kubbyelizabeth	Don't forget to remember Task #1
@mikepm74	She's an Overripe Tomato!
@violacasey	Grab the book, and the list will follow
@mother2chicks	Saturday Night Charades
@neiraurdaneta	The commercial Gone With the Wind
@therovingreader	🍅 Mayhem at the Lunch Table 🍌
@morodiene	Produce Productions Presents a Premier Performance
@flemingfarm	Life Saver
@mjcarvajalp	Can Love Change so much in only five years?: The dark side of the moon
@orii	A prize for Charlie
@kirrakimbrell	011: The New Era Banana
@rnunez09	Travelling with the Wind
@topkpop	Portal Disaster
@em3	Tony's List: A Creative Writing Challenge Entry for @steemfluencer
@alemars16	Woebegone

This is a total amount of 16 entries which practically surpasses the total amount of the participants in the beginning of the first Creative Writing Challenge with one.

By the way, mentioning the participants, we have few more people that has joined the challenge since last time. Here's the full list of the participants:

Name of challenger
@kubbyelizabeth
@negativer
@tinypaleokitchen
@ellievallie
@mikepm74
@therovingreader
@darxide403
@mitchelljaworski
@clacrax
@alemars16
@oleg326756
@orii
@flemingfarm
@cristof
@topkpop
@jayjayjeffery
@morodiene
@kirrakimbrell
@authorofthings
@eurekaj
@rnunez09
@edurley
@rnunez09
@darxide403

The number of participants is currently 24!

Before announcing the new task, we'll take a look at the list with the sponsors, because there are 10 more SBD added to the prize pool.

Thank you @therovingreader and @em3! And again, thank you @kubbyelizabeth for bringing more and more sponsors interested to contribute in increasing the price pool.

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A list with our sponsors , their contributions and the total amount of the prize pool:

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Sponsor	Contribution
@kubbyelizabeth	8 SBD
@juliakponsford	5 SBD
@oleg326756	5 SBD
@eturnerx	5 SBD
@scrooger	5 SBD
@flemingfarm	10 SBD
@crimsonclad	5 SBD
@sircork	10 SBD
@scaredycatguide	5 SBD
@therovingreader	5 SBD
@em3	2 SBD
TOTAL	75 SBD (+10 SBD from me)

We have 24 participants and 11 sponsors! The TOTAL amount of the prize pool is 75 SBD and we are still looking for more sponsors.

And now we have finally reached the key moment of this blog post: the new task!

Let's announce it:

Task #2: Tom and Joey

Using the phrases below, try to build a short fictional story. There are few notes that [look like this].

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Tom is still the smartest accountant in the town,

Joey is his best friend.
Tom is 94.
Joey is 95.
They both live in ...

This is a story of a friendship, love and drama [feel free to replace these or add more].

Everything has started [pick a time in the past when].

[Finish with]: Today Tom & Joey...

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Additional notes: Obviously Joey and Tom are the protagonists. Feel free to add more characters, to include retrospection and whatever else you would like. You are totally free to write your own interpretation. Use this type of freedom as an opportunity to put your creativity under some pressure. If you'd like to present the old men in a different way, please do so.

A short story means something that is minimum 300 words.

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Deadline

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The deadline to finish this story is Thursday, September 21 by Midnight EST.

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Final words

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Submit the URL to your post in the comments.

If you see any kind of flaws or errors feel free to to let me know as soon as possible.
Hopefully most of you will be able to finish the task on time.
Enjoy it!

Keep writing,
@steemfluencer