Contest Announcement! “PICK A WORD, PAINT A STORY #23" And Winners of Week 22 Contest.

Hello, my dear Steemians friends,

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I'm so happy to see your lovely submissions for "Pick a Word, Paint a Story #22,". Today I came up with another lovely three words.

ECHO, SHADOW, and LANTERN

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What you need to do

I am giving you the above three words; pick one and write an article of at least 450 words. You are free to write a story, article, or any other type of writing that relates to the word you pick. . The only requirements are to be original, relevant, and clearly expressed. Then let's start writing, and I am eagerly awaiting reading yours.

The prize pool for this contest is as follows:

My dear friends, starting from this week, our reward pool has changed. As the booming vote for the community is coming to an end this month, the following prize pool was chosen by the community.

Place	Prize
1st	3 SP
2nd	2 SP

Only quality, valid, and attractive posts will be considered as winners.

Last week's winners!

First and foremost, I apologize for the delay in announcing the winners of the previous week. The contest words for last week were DRIZZLE, GLOW, and BREEZE. There were 13 entries. Finding winners this time also was somewhat challenging because all the entries were really attractive. Anyway, based on the originality, quality, contest rules, markdown usage, and relevancy to the topic, I selected the two below users for this week's booming award.

User	Post Link	Prize
@josepha	Link	Booming awards
@lunasilver	Link	Booming awards

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you, everybody, for taking part in this competition.

We highly appreciate the 10% benefit from the participants, which helps our community become stronger.

Contest Rules

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• Post in the #Hind Whale community.
• Follow @hindwhale.
• The title should be "Pick a Word, Paint a Story #23"
• Use your images or copyright-free images only.
• Make a publication of not less than 450 words.
• There is no restriction on languages; all the active Steemians can take part in this contest.
• Post must be free from plagiarism and AI
• Leave your entry link in the comment section.
• Participants must have joined any of the clubs, such as club5050, club75, or club100.
• Use the mandatory hashtags #pick-aword23, #steemexclusive, #creativewriting, #country and #club.
• Set a 10% beneficiary to @hindwhale to build your favorite community stronger.
• Vote and resteem this post and invite 3 members.

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Contest deadline is July 6, 2025, 11.30 PM SL time

Happy writing, and best of luck!

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Cc: @disconnect, @jyoti-thelight, @deepak94.