• Theme - The difference between 2016 and 2017 IS...
• Prize - 5 Steem +100% of Steem/SD generated by contest posts (this post and the voting post combined)

How the contest works:

1- Write a post or create a visual medium on your Steemit blog in which you describe what difference(s) the incoming year (2017) will bring, and how it will be different than the current year (2016). The change may be personal or it may be related to something outside yourself (the world as a whole, the space program, your family, the growth of Steemit etc etc)
2- Post a link to your creation on THIS post WITH a summary of your work, by December 28, 0800 CST
3- I will put up a second post sometime during the 28th with your links and summaries; I will set up comments to be voted on linking you to your entry. MAKE SURE I HAVE ADDED YOU TO THE NEW POST IF YOU ENTERED ON TIME
4- Readers will vote on your submissions; voting will close by December 30, noon CST.
5- The entry with the highest votes will get all Steem/Steem Dollars generated by both posts total; ties will split the prize (we had a tie in the Christmas contest!)

Rules

• He who writes with the most votes wins!
• One entry per Steemer
• All Steemers are eligible; there is no minimum Rep requirement
• I reserve the right to flag hate-filled rants ( I can't believe I have to say this, but we had such a rant on the Christmas contest)
• Remember the contest runs across two posts, and the second post will decide the contest. Please ask if I have not been clear!

Not Necessary, but Helpful

• Resteem both contest posts so that others can compete, and possibly upvote your work!
• Read other folks' submissions, upvote the post on THEIR blog
• Tell other contestants how great their entry was
• Don't forget to vote for yourself!
• Let's fill Steemit to the brim with new content!

Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!

New Year's Fireworks, By Ernst Vikne (Nyttårsaften i Skien Uploaded by Arsenikk) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons