Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION
Creating Synergy for Writers
1062 writers joined and are supporting ILLUMINATION!
Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge. — Stephen Covey
As mentioned in my bulletin related to our diversity mission yesterday, we have now 1000+ writers creating stories for ILLUMINATION. I want to touch on synergy briefly, which is another value and mission for us to accomplish.
I noticed that several writers are collaborating and creating new stories with prompts. The stories created with prompts are getting more and more popular as each writer adds his or her perspective to the prompt. Those stories turn into synergistic outcomes.
We can create synergy by extending and enhancing stories that we read. During my interviews, I noticed that writers enjoy comments on their stories from their readers. They find the comments valuable and desirable. Leaving comments is one of the practical approaches for creating synergy.
Our daily distribution list is another tool that we use to create synergy for our writers. Many writers mentioned that they find our distribution list easy to connect with other writers and gain better visibility to their stories on a daily basis. I will introduce several new tools to create synergy among our writers in my upcoming bulletins. I will also add the ideas to our Slack channel, which has now 274 members.
I continued interviewing our writers and completed a few more today. You can find the writer interviews from the attached story.
What did ILLUMINATION writers create today?
Our writers created many eclectic stories today. We try a new technique to engage our writers in the curation process. Our writers comment on our curation list and our readers enjoy their input. Attached is a list of stories we created on ILLUMINATION today.
Meet New Writers of ILLUMINATION
27 new writers joined us today. We have 1062 writers supporting our publication now. A warm welcome to our new writers: Emma Laver-Scott, Lionel Piguet, Cole Porto, GK, rtam., H. N. Uhlig, Nicolebazhenov, Ash Jurberg, Trent Swanson, Gloria D. Gonsalves, Athif Ibrahim, Sandra Szubert, Suellen Wheless Estes, Moriah Murphy-Thornley, Alison Schaffir, Divya Shakthi, Chathurika Gamaethige, Bilal Rifas, John O'Neill, Ruxandra Pana, Vlad Ludoșanu, Valerie Kaufman, Quynh Trang Tran, kushal Gupta, Nehemiah Afe
New writers can start submitting their articles to our publication. Please see the attached story on submission process documented by our editor Timothy Key.
I added many writers to our Slack channel today. Thank you for the inquires and willingness to join our ideation 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.
Writer Introductions
We have two introductions today.
Meet our writer Stephen T. Harper
Meet our writer Martine Weber
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 8000+ readers. Please see the attached bio document as an example for creating your bios. Our readers are interested in our writers.
Featured Articles
Due to increasing variety and diversity of topics, we featured nine stories from our creative writers today.
Joan Kent, PhD
Ashley Nicole
P.G. Barnett
Flavio Aliberti
Dr Kylie Harris
Ahu Ermiş
Helen Cassidy Page
Joe Luca
Kathryn A. LeRoy, Ph.D.
Stories from ILLUMINATION distributed to Medium Topics
Five stories from ILLUMINATION were distributed to Medium topics today. Congratulations to all writers who created extra visibility via topics.
A story by Theo Sheppard was distributed to #self #work.
And article by George J. Ziogas was distributed to #work.
A story by Thomas Dylan Daniel was distributed to #philosophy.
A story by Diego Ruiz was distributed to #creativity.
A poem by J.D. Harms was distributed to #poetry.
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.
New writers: please ensure that you check your stories for typos, spelling, and grammar errors before submitting them to the publication.
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.
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 over 650+ 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.
