Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION
Commitment & Determination
1844 ILLUMINATION writers are illuminating 16,600 readers!
Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer. — Marica Wieder
“Commitment is the foundation of great accomplishments.” Heidi Reeder
I am genuinely inspired by the commitment and determination of our writers. Many thanks and congratulations to 30 pioneering writers who completed our writing challenge within 48 hours: MaryJo Wagner, PhD, Gary Stroschein, Tree Langdon, Jill Reid, Michele Thill, Chowa Sekai, B. A. Cumberlidge., Daniella Mini, Bill Abbate, Stephen Dalton, Samantha Buck, Jeff Hanlon, Agnes Laurens, Kenneth Johnson, Jill Reid, Tyler Piteo-Tarpy, Jaye Frances, Diane Lee, Anna da Silva, Alison Tennent, Øivind H. Solheim, Jennifer Geer, Eli Snow, Infiniti, Elisabeth Khan, Sowmya Sridhar, Aurora Eliam, CMP, R Tsambounieri Talarantas,Robert Locke, Ravyne Hawke,
Please check their fabulous stories from the attached link and consider starting your second challenge with the available material in this story. Those who haven’t seen the second challenge can find it in my bulletin released yesterday.
I am extra grateful today because based on my guiding story about leveraging Twitter yesterday, I noticed that many writers added their twitter handle to Medium. Within 24 hours, we moved from 20% to 40% success rate. This is excellent progress. Well done all! For the rest of 60%, please consider following the instructions from the attached story.
For those who are new to our publication, I created a Twitter List exclusive to ILLUMINATION writers. We have 400+ writers who are added as members. You can start following them. Please also follow this list so that you can see stories of these writers on Twitter.
What did ILLUMINATION writers create today?
Here is a bundle of stories I was able to add to our distribution list today. Thank you for adding comments to create visibility to your great stories.
One of the purpose of this daily distribution is easy access to our stories. I recommend to enjoy as many stories as possible from this list. If your story is not included, please leave a comment by linking your story. As publication team we do our best but it must be a collective effort. To this end, it will be excellent for each writer to take responsibility to create visibility for his or her own story. Please remember tweeting the stories you read. We grow with support, synergy, and collaboration.
Let’s check our publication page for more stories. Many more stories can be found from our publication page.
New writers who joined ILLUMINATION today
24 new writers joined our publication today. We have 1844 writers supporting ILLUMINATION now. A warm welcome to our new writers: Grace’s corner, Urvi Karani, Articulista, Amit Khandelwal, Manu Chatterjee, Nadine Clay, M.Ed., Sabeena, Brandon Sarmiento, Rebecca Blume, Kristin Wilson, Jasmine Poulton, Maham Saeed, Matthew Taylor, Libby Mitchell, Zach J. Watson, Brandon Anderson, Azraa Zackeriya, Lara Lauson, Shaun Wetzel, Bilal, Doug Sandlin, Rebecca Murauskas, Kaitlyn, Alexander M. Combstrong,
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 392 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.
Please also check our process and procedures for further details on our publication.
Featured Writer Bios Today
Upon request, we start featuring three writer bio stories each day.
Christina M. Ward
Ralph Deckers
Rachel Sample M.Ed.
Writer Introductions
Let’s meet our writer Glenn Stok today.
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 16,500+ 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.
Featured Interview Stories on Publication Page
We will be featuring three writer interview story each day. Today, we featured inspiring interviews that I conducted with:
Roxanna Azimy
Karen Madej 💛
Marianna Saver
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”.
Featured Stories Today
We featured 12 stories from our creative writers today. These stories will be placed on the front page for 24 hours for easy access.
Roz Warren
Infiniti
Bo Stapler, MD
TanyaIv
Kenneth Johnson
Patrick M. Davis
G.Lodhia
Zach J. Watson
Matthew Taylor
Anna Klawitter
Vicky Jangra
Lanu Pitan
Stories Distributed from ILLUMINATION to Medium Topics
Eight great stories were distributed to multiple Medium topics today. Each story is unique and well crafted. I felt privileged to have early access to these great stories on our publication. Each day audience from new topics come across ILLUMINATION represented by its creative writers.
A story by Jevin Lortie was distributed to #race #justice #equality.
A story by Kushagra Garg was distributed to #self.
A story by Emily Kingsley was distributed to #self.
A story by Erin King was distributed to #food.
A story by Andrew Jazprose Hill was distributed to #race #equality.
A story by Paul Myers MBA was distributed to #work #freelancing.
A story by Kahli Bree Adams 🖋️was distributed to #pets.
A story by Dakota Duncan was distributed to #self.
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.
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 1750+ 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.
