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ecret of success in anything you do is to just stick at it.DO NOT EVER GIVE UP!This attitude was my secret weapon. It has been that attitude that has brought me many great successes before in a variety of fields.In business, in teaching, in writing, in performing art. If you put in the time and dedication to anything, you can’t help but get better at it and go on to enjoy great success.So at last here I am, not a top writer, yet. But a respected writer and very warmly welcomed Editor of Illumination and Illumination Curated. I am so proud to be a part of such a truly amazing team of fellow editors and writers who treat me as an equal.I had one incredible stroke of luck, though I think you make your own luck in this life. I started to be mentored by the awe inspiring <a href="undefined">Dr Mehmet Yildiz</a>. The man is a legend here, and quite deservedly so.I have met very few people who engender such passion, dedication, commitment and loyalty as Dr Yildiz, amongst all who work under his very wise counsel and leadership.Indeed, I really do believe the whole community of Illumination are behind this man. Every single one of us deeply desire to see this vision go all the way.Vision? It is a theatre of dreams and no less.So here I am some almost seven hundred articles and poems later, getting great stats and loving every minute of it.I am almost ashamed to have previously thought of myself as a good writer, even if I was. I am now already a million times the writer I was, and I’m not finished yet.I have reached few milestones here. Thanks to Dr Yildiz and all at Illumination, I have just published my very

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first short story, The Island.Writing the story was not an easy task. I also felt the need to continue submitting other articles and poetry. Add in one or two language teaching commitments I have here (English and Spanish)….ill heath (PMR) a move from the sunny south of Spain to an incredibly humid(98% humidity) Japan, promoting two of my own albums, the building of six new websites…..you get the idea. I am a very lucky man in as much as I have a truly wonderful wife who is dedicated to me (Lord knows why, love I guess).Still, it has been almost five months of very hard work. And rather than complain about it, I am over the moon. I have made so much progress here at Illumination, as a writer and as a person, I have almost quite amazed myself!I am now a lot more relaxed, though my foot is a long way from coming off the gas pedal.But I really do feel like I have re-found my calling. I am in many ways living the dream. You cannot ask for more than that, though I do ask myself a lot more than that.I am my own biggest critic and that is how I roll. It has led to success in the past and it is doing the self same thing here again.I have read a great many articles, and written quite a few too, about how to get on as a writer. If I could distill that all down to one single piece of advice it would be….Just stick at it, you will get there in the end.I now look forward to progressing yet more with my writing( at least three more books in the pipeline) to growing as a person and to doing what I can to help others do the same. That is now my mission in life.It would not be a bad idea to make it yours. Remember, Just stick at it.</article></body>

An Illuminating Theatre of Dreams

A journey from aspiring writer to editorship at Illumination

Just over four months ago I set off on a journey. I joined Medium and published my first article on the 22nd of May.

As an ex-professional writer working for newspapers and magazines I very mistakenly thought it was going to be easy peasy lemon squeezy. I could not have been more wrong.

The first weeks were quite frankly depressing. My stats remained firmly fixed in single digits. I was at my wits end.

I reached out to Danny Oak and Akos Peterbencze on linked in. Danny was amazing. He went to all the trouble of checking out numerous articles of mine and pointed out all the errors of my ways. To put it in a nutshell, I was crap. That is not what Danny said by the way, but it was what it amounted to.

Akos was also extremely supportive in my hour of need. And that meant a hell of a lot to me.

Having reached out to these two great guys I decided there was no point seeking out good advice only to ignore it.

So I totally revised my first fifty articles. Then I set about writing a minimum of three articles a day. My objective was not money(which was a bloody good job as my first pay check was just 0.33 cents!) it was personal pride. I wanted to at least get to be a top writer. I’d have been quite happy with that.

For ten or twelve hours a day I just stuck at it. And you know what, many years ago I learned that the secret of success in anything you do is to just stick at it.

DO NOT EVER GIVE UP!

This attitude was my secret weapon. It has been that attitude that has brought me many great successes before in a variety of fields.

In business, in teaching, in writing, in performing art. If you put in the time and dedication to anything, you can’t help but get better at it and go on to enjoy great success.

So at last here I am, not a top writer, yet. But a respected writer and very warmly welcomed Editor of Illumination and Illumination Curated. I am so proud to be a part of such a truly amazing team of fellow editors and writers who treat me as an equal.

I had one incredible stroke of luck, though I think you make your own luck in this life. I started to be mentored by the awe inspiring Dr Mehmet Yildiz. The man is a legend here, and quite deservedly so.

I have met very few people who engender such passion, dedication, commitment and loyalty as Dr Yildiz, amongst all who work under his very wise counsel and leadership.

Indeed, I really do believe the whole community of Illumination are behind this man. Every single one of us deeply desire to see this vision go all the way.

Vision? It is a theatre of dreams and no less.

So here I am some almost seven hundred articles and poems later, getting great stats and loving every minute of it.

I am almost ashamed to have previously thought of myself as a good writer, even if I was. I am now already a million times the writer I was, and I’m not finished yet.

I have reached few milestones here. Thanks to Dr Yildiz and all at Illumination, I have just published my very first short story, The Island.

Writing the story was not an easy task. I also felt the need to continue submitting other articles and poetry. Add in one or two language teaching commitments I have here (English and Spanish)….ill heath (PMR) a move from the sunny south of Spain to an incredibly humid(98% humidity) Japan, promoting two of my own albums, the building of six new websites…..you get the idea. I am a very lucky man in as much as I have a truly wonderful wife who is dedicated to me (Lord knows why, love I guess).

Still, it has been almost five months of very hard work. And rather than complain about it, I am over the moon. I have made so much progress here at Illumination, as a writer and as a person, I have almost quite amazed myself!

I am now a lot more relaxed, though my foot is a long way from coming off the gas pedal.

But I really do feel like I have re-found my calling. I am in many ways living the dream. You cannot ask for more than that, though I do ask myself a lot more than that.

I am my own biggest critic and that is how I roll. It has led to success in the past and it is doing the self same thing here again.

I have read a great many articles, and written quite a few too, about how to get on as a writer. If I could distill that all down to one single piece of advice it would be….

Just stick at it, you will get there in the end.

I now look forward to progressing yet more with my writing( at least three more books in the pipeline) to growing as a person and to doing what I can to help others do the same. That is now my mission in life.

It would not be a bad idea to make it yours. Remember, Just stick at it.