Steemit Challenge S26-w1: The Office Project

Dear Steemians,

I welcome you to the First Week of Season 26 of the Steemit Challenge, Duration 11-17 August, 2025!

"Steemit Challenge Season 26" brings you an opportunity for "Fiction Writing", allowing your imagination to go as wide as you allow it to, but I want you to build a world of fiction yet full of real life-facts which provide your readers a true sensation and take them to the world of fantasy. Let's see how you create a story based on the prompt provided below:

The Theme of the week : The Office Project:

A group of office mates uncover a hidden truth about their project, perhaps a secret research project or a long-forgotten experiment, leading them on a thrilling quest to expose it. Finally, they reached a solution that brings world-wide fame to their company.

This prompt has a wide scope of showcasing the power of uncovering unlimited hidden truths of collaborative efforts by the team that will take their company to the top of corporate world. I leave rest to your imagination how you develop the twists, facts and sensation in your story.

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Points to build your story around:

A great starting scenario
What devices they used, if any
Their mysterious discoveries
Errors and fact
The use of plans
The use of melodrama
The conversation
End of the story with a result

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

Please note:

A well-crafted fiction 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.

The actions taken by the characters and the resolution at the end are all part of a good fiction story. I will see how you have twisted the plot in the prompt in such a way that moves the story forward and keeps your readers interested in introducing complications and suspense and finally completing the project.

I will read what conversations your characters are having about the project.

Remember, you have to make your story meaningful through all these choices, and your marks will be based on all these facts.

Remember the one who reads these points and, noting how a story will work and seizes the imagination of my prompt, will successfully write great fiction in which mystery along with facts plays an important part, a story which is well worded.

“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” - Mark Twain.

Note:

No greetings, etc. but come to the story straight away!

You should remember to make your story relatable, engaging, and thought-provoking, but don't miss out on experimenting with fantasy, fiction, and mystery in your story. Focusing on relatable themes and overcoming challenges will resonate with your readers.

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 the fiction 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 s26wk1 : The Office Project"

*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, and don't forget to vote and resteem this post.

*If two or more participants score equal points we shall decide the winner based on post's quality, and team's internal decision 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.

Images:

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

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.
*Participants must not use the official contest thumbnail or images.
*Tags: #fiction-s26wk1 #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, @, @joslud and @kouba01

Timeline:

This contest starts on Monday, 11th August 2025 at 00:01 UTC and ends on Sunday, 17th August 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

Hello @, thank you so much for taking part in Week of the Steemit Challenge - Season 26! We truly appreciate the time and creativity you put into your entry. Your assessment, including feedback and scores based on our evaluation criteria, is provided below.

I will choose the top 6 stories based on a points system. If there is a tie, I will decide the winner based on overall story quality and a few points I will reveal in the result post.

Criteria	Marks
Story start to finish	0/5
Originality & Uniqueness	0/3
Presentation	0/1
My observation	0/1
Total	0/10
Feedback	---

*Story start to finish: It will show how well the participant understood the finer points of the prompt and build the story based on the prompt provided.

*Originality & Uniqueness : The web is full of related stories, so you copied the idea, reworded it, and that's your story. No, that's not going to work. I will read between the lines and see how you developed your story.

*Presentation : I will see to it that how Steemians presented the story and the markdown and image settings.

*My Observation : That's where I will tell you what was unique or what I liked in your story. This could be a crucial point that will make a difference on your result.

I will check AI Content :

Let me make it clear that even if you use ChatGPT or any other similar tools I will pick it up and your points will tell you the result. I know other methods that clearly indicate use of AI and rewording so be careful.

I will check for plagiarism.

Be careful, be original. I know how to detect the original from duplicate or stolen text.

Important Reminder: Post on your blog only and not in any community!

I look forward to your creativity and wish you best of luck.

NOTE: @waqarahmadshah will assist me in evaluation on retainer basis whom I will keep beneficiary in Result Posts.

Cc, @steemitblog