Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION
15,000+ Followers in 3 Months
1735 ILLUMINATION writers are illuminating 15,093 readers!

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. — Dwayne Johnson

I am pleased to inform you that we achieve another milestone today. 15, 093 Medium subscribers now follow our publication. Many thanks to our creative writers, diligent editors, and valued readers. We are passionate, creative, diverse group of collaborative writers serving our readers consistently.
Today, I focused on compiling our featured stories for easy access to our readers. The purpose of this list is to provide easy access to our featured stories. It provides an opportunity to connect with their writers, and learn from engaging writing styles of these successful writers.
By learning from these writers, our new writers can also increase the chance of being featured on ILLUMINATION front page viewed by thousands of readers each day.
What did ILLUMINATION writers create today?
Here are some sample stories that we created today. Here is a bundle of stories I was able to add to our distribution list today. I will also add them to our upcoming Newsletter to subscribed members of our publication. Please consider adding comments so that your great stories gain visibility.
New writers who joined ILLUMINATION today
17 new writers joined our publication today. We have 1735 writers supporting ILLUMINATION now. A warm welcome to our new writers: martina m, Øivind H. Solheim, Joydwip Mohajon, Viji Nataraj, Zoe Lee, Clarissa Wilson, Onalenna Neo, Harun Reşit Aydin, Paul Abela, Phil Rossi, Brianna Bohacs, Zafer Öztürk, Delaney Closs, Rashmi Maya, TanyaIv, Adelaide-Speaks, Sajiv Shah
IMPORTANT NOTE TO NEW WRITERS: To ensure your stories are published on a timely basis, please provide required credits to the photos and extracted information from other sources. This is the most common issue delaying some stories to be published. If you turn off your private messages we have no other mechanism to reach out to you. If your article is not published within 48 hours please contact me from this link.
I received several inquiries from new writers who want to know how to add stories to publication. Please see the attached story providing step by step guidance by our editor Timothy Key.
ILLUMINATION Slack Channel
We created a writer collaboration platform using Slack. We have 370+ members. I added several writers to our Slack channel today. Thank you for the inquires and willingness to join our collaboration and innovation lab. New writers are invited to join our Slack to have a chat and collaborate with other inspiring writers. We discuss editorial matters, Medium policies, content quality, and overall writing skills improvement. You can request an invitation to Slack from this link. Please type Request for Slack on the heading as I have many other requests from this link.
You can check this story from Timothy Key to learn how to use Slack if you haven’t used it before.
New writers, please check our FAQ document for details of our publication. Our submission guidelines and several other useful documents are attached in this story.
Stories Distributed from ILLUMINATION to Medium Topics
Five great stories were distributed to multiple topics today. I found these stories interesting and engaging.
A story by Rachel Sample M.Ed. was distributed to #parenting.
A story by helenaknows was distributed to #mindfulness.
A story by Brian E. Wish, PhD was distributed to #election2020 #San Francisco #politics.
Another story by Brian E. Wish, PhD was distributed to #pets.
A poem by Tree Langdon ♾️ was distributed to #poetry.
As ILLUMINATION hosts an impressive number of high-quality stories distributed to the topics from our creative writers, I compiled those stories. I aim to create awareness for the high-quality stories so that our new writers can leverage these excellent stories, model the styles so that they can improve their stories for increasing chance of curation by Medium curators. You can find the complete list from the attached story. I update it regularly.
Featured Stories
Due to volume of high quality and interesting content submitted to our publication, we featured 12 stories from our creative writers today. These stories will be placed on the front page for 24 hours for easy access.
DL Nemeril
Earnie Painter
Taha Abbas
Dr.Gulnazmirza
Evan Wolfson
Benny Lim
Esat Artug
Ashley Broadwater
James Frank Sanders
Anthony M. Davis
Tonia Nem
Gershom Umar
Featured Interview Stories on Publication Page
We will be featuring two writer interview story each day. Today, we featured inspiring interviews that I conducted with:
Sherry McGuinn
Annelise Lords
Featured Writer Bios
Upon request, we start featuring three writer bio stories. Today, we selected:
Roz Warren
Riku Arikiri
Lori Brown
Writer Introductions
We have three writer introductions today.
Meet our writer Ralph Deckers
Meet our writer TanyaIv.
Meet our writer Bob Jasper
200+ writers introduced themselves in their stories so far. This is an opportunity for our writers to showcase their writing portfolio. I recommend all new writers to introduce themselves in an article. We compile these introductions, keep this resource on the first page of our publication and also share the file with our 15,000+ readers. Please see the attached bio document as an example for creating your bios. Our readers are interested in our writers. If your bio is missing from this list, please leave a comment with your your story link.
I have been interviewing our writers to feature their profile and great stories. I added a few more interview stories today. You can read the interviews from the attached story. If you are a writer on ILLUMINATION and would like to be interviewed, please send a request via this link with title of “Interview Request”.
Content Quality Focus
Our current writers know that we strive for excellence. We aim to increase the quality of your stories and provide an enjoyable reading experience to our followers. Quality is an iterative process. I notice that the quality of our stories is increasing day by day. The curation rate increased.
New writers: please ensure that you check your stories for typos, spelling, and grammar errors before submitting them to the publication. Our readers deserve high quality stories.
We have some volunteering editors who can perform a proof-reading for the writers from the non-English speaking background. You can search for volunteers from our Slack channel. One of the proof-reading tools our writers recommend is Grammarly.
ILLUMINATION Social Media Links
We share our stories in the following platforms. We encourage our new writers to join and follow these links.
Twitter — Facebook — LinkedIn — Flipboard- YouTube- Pinterest
You can also check our syndicated content: Blogs, PublisherSpotlight.
Invitation to writers who may be interested in ILLUMINATION
If you want to join our growing and supportive publication as a writer, please leave a message via this link. We curate valuable content for our readers; we create awareness and visibility of our content to wider audience. We also amplify Medium articles on social media to bring new readers and subscribers.
If you have already applied from different means and not added to the publication yet, please try again by directly writing to me. Some messages are easily lost on articles.
Several new top writers joined us. We have now 1700+ writers. The more the better for our diversity. We aim to appeal to millions providing diverse and insightful content globally.
Please see an article by Timothy Key on writer invitation.






