Featured Stories
Curated Collection #114
Chosen stories from experienced writers for avid readers
Dear Readers and Writers,
Thanks for your valuable feedback on collection #112 posted yesterday. Today, we selected and compiled interesting pieces out of hundreds of stories published on Illumination.
These engaging and informative pieces in the collection cover various topics for your enjoyment.
The purpose of this post is to give our readers a quick taste of content published in our diverse and inclusive publication, ILLUMINATION on Medium. It is a pleasure for us to publish our 100+ collections this year contributed by 15,500+ inspiring storytellers.
Today, Technology Hits posted Hand-Picked Articles collection #83.
ILLUMINATION-Curator interviewed our chief editor Dr Mehmet Yildiz to provide tips to published and indie authors to become successful on Medium and tips for aspiring authors. Dr Yildiz articulate the values of Illumination Book Chapters both for experienced and aspiring writers. We believe you find this interview helpful.
In addition, ILLUMINATION-Curator posted an outstanding collection of book chapters from our published authors contributing to Illumination Book Chapters.
If you are a published author we can publish your books in Illumination Book Chapters and promote them on our platforms. If you plan to turn your articles and blog posts into books, you may check this guide from Dr Mehmet Yildiz. He encourages our writers to become published authors and earn income by diversifying content on multiple platforms and formats.
Technology Hits also created a collection from Illumination Book Chapters in addition to several collections including chosen stories from ILLUMINATION-Curated. We are pleased that these outstanding stories are featured in our collections.
You may find previous collections of Illumination from the following links.
You might check out the previous collections by Technology Hits at this link. We keep our featured collections in a single post titled Meta Collection of Featured Stories. Our editors enjoy amplifying the informative, engaging, and interesting content of our writers using various approaches and tools.
ILLUMINATION-Curator posted two outstanding collections from our publication Illumination-Curated for experienced writers. We are grateful for the support of our volunteer editors investing their precious time to make our writers and readers happy.
Introduction to New Writers
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Introducing your background in a story like the ones in this collection can be helpful to gain more visibility. Readers enjoy reading writer bios to learn more about their background. You may also check great stories in our featured collection from the last three days.
Recent Collections by ILLUMINATION
We believe you might find valuable and enjoyable pieces on the new collection and previous collections.
Featured Stories from ILLUMINATION Today
How to Reduce Abdominal Fat and Increase Lean Muscles with Two Practical Steps Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Three Tips to Optimize Cortisol to Melt Belly Fat and Keep Lean Muscles Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Digital Nomad Cures Aches and Pains with a 25 cent Coin in Bali Arlo Hennings, Ph.D.
This Interesting Thing Happens When an Empath Abandons a Narcissist Melissa Kalt, MD
Top 5 AI Jobs and the Key Skills Required to Land One Douis Med, PhD
Reduce Your Stress Now Dr. Stacey Maples
Reduce Your Stress Now
Summary of techniques you can practice now for improved resiliency
medium.com
Improve Your Attitude by Taking 5 Minutes to Recognize the Good Stuff in Your Life Chris Schwilk, Ph.D.
What Is Hyper-Automation? How Does It Help? A Nkeonye Judith Izuka-Aguocha
What Is Hyper-Automation? How Does It Help?
RPA and AI will create new job opportunities.
medium.com
Nature Heals: How This Therapist Uses Ecotherapy to Help Her Clients Heal Adrienne O'Brien LMT
Why We Should Stop Expecting Kids to Go To College Alan Simpson
IT’S HERE!!!! Amanda Marks
Why Do I Stay Amy Christie
My Journey To 100 Followers Andrew Joseph Davies
This Is How Much Exercise You Need to Benefit Your Health Ange Dim
Think Like A Time Billionaire Aniket Shashikant Saraf
Let’s Fight Your Depressed Feeling Animn Bharadwaj
Where Should Sex Education Begin? Annelise Lords
How To Read, Understand and Remember the Right Way Anshul Kumar
Why Every Introvert Should do a Customer-Service Job ARCHANA VANGURI
The second time I cross $100 on Medium ASAD EDUCATE
Soul of a seeker Aswathi Ashok
For the Children Author, D. Denise Dianaty
Spanking Remains The Best Way To Discipline a Child Ayoade Emmanuel
I Can’t lie! Bogdan Mtn
The Brilliance of Step One Bridget Stella Ruxton Wilson
GRIT Brooklyn Muse
Use These 3 Chrome Extensions To Get Better Medium Stats Bryan Dijkhuizen
4 Ways to Develop Your Mind to Age Better Carl Poland
How To Stop Failing Accidentally And Start Failing With Real Purpose Carlo Zeno
How Town: A Prose Poem Cliff Hightower
Is It Better To Be Blue Than To Get Over You? Craig Hellier
You Want To Change Cristina Cattai
10 Signs a Man Throws to Attract a Woman Dak
Quantum Kate the Qubit Chip Dan Dawson
The Clap System Has To Change Now Daniel Mesa
Dear World…I Quit! Dima David Lozovsky
6 Senses of a Medium Writer Don Martin
Will There Be a Mass Exodus of Teachers Leaving the Profession Don Sabado
Is Silence Too Loud for You? Elaine Hilides
Spare Me the Kudos Elizabeth Emerald
How Marilyn Monroe’s Words Can Help You Chase Your Dreams Eric Kulbiej
In Life, You Get to Choose How to Measure Your Own Success Eugene Adams
Hand-Picked Articles #83 Technology Hits
Communication that Connects Us Fatmawati Santosa
Clarence Thomas Is Not Likely To Recuse Himself Floyd Mori
Do you know who is the “doctor of the foliage” who climbs the tallest trees in the world? Francesco Carrubba
Poor Grammar and Run-on Sentences From the Mountain ~ Stories & Photos of JD Adams
The Sacredness of Now Gerad Carrier
Why You Should Enter Your Unpublished Work in Writing Contests Geri Spieler
4 Important Grammar Lessons I Learned (Or Maybe Relearned) From Textbroker’s Editors Gip Plaster
A Leadership Short — Self Awareness Greg Sweeney
A Story…. as in The History Hugo Bertrand
Curated Collection #113 ILLUMINATION
How Writers and Bloggers Transition to Become Published Authors ILLUMINATION-Curator
The Mound of Laundry Improv Cowboy
5 Tips to Keep You Moving Forward When You Want to Stop Jeannette Seibly
I Want to Give You One of My Super Powers this Summer Jeff Herring
The Many Facets To Puerta Vallarta, Mexico. Jennifer Thompson
I’m Crazy, Who Else Is Willing To Admit It? Jerry Pompilio
I’m Crazy, Who Else Is Willing To Admit It?
Now I disclosed it, and now I can control it.
medium.com
What to Know About Sitting to Burn Calories Jessey Anthony
Being A Business Owner Jessica Gale Friesen
Whirl Wind Romance John K Adams
Breathe John Ross
If I’m So Passionate Why Do I Suck? Johnny T Page
How Did I Get My First 10.000 Medium Views In Less Than A Month? Josep Ferrer
This Is How Far I’ve Come On Medium In Three Weeks Justin Andrews
This Advice From Madea Changed My Life Kimberlee
In Honor Of You Phenomenal Women KL Simmons
Mindfulness: The Power to Change Your Life KnowledgeCollective
Imposter Syndrome Won’t Get Me This Time! Kristen Abram
That Putin Guy Is Making Me Fatter L K Smithe
The Irish Stick Larry Nowicki
Is it possible to meet and fall in Love on Facebook? Lawson Wallace
Where To Find Great Writing Ideas Leonard Tillerman
The Languages of Love Liviu Roman
3 Lessons I Learned From Friends Who Didn’t Appreciate My Success Lucia Landini
Dragons Don’t Like Being Pets Lwazi
How to Turn Your Hatred for Humanity Into Empathy for Everyone Maggie Kelly
How to Turn Your Hatred for Humanity Into Empathy for Everyone
Do you really hate people?
medium.com
Home Sales Are Down — Expect More Mark Hake
How to Quickly and Easily Snap Yourself Out of a Funk Mary Beth Hazeldine
How to Quickly and Easily Snap Yourself Out of a Funk
You have a built-in warning system!
medium.com
Nek Minit The Oscar Goes To The Dog Maryanne Marsters
The Dark Side Of Pretty Misty Rae
The Power of Perspective Morgan Blair
The Power of Perspective
The meanings we create from our stories end up shaping our life.
medium.com
Apologizing Won’t Kill You Nanna
Careers and Employment in 2023 Opal A Roszell
Nine Things You Might Not Have Known About St George Paul Walker
We Should Thank the Haunting Happy Memories paulmartincurry
St. George’s Day Peter Ling
Yes, We’re Slaves Robin Emery
Cancer — a Poem Roxanne Barbour
It’s my Birthday! So, How do We Get to Know and Honor our Core Self? Rudi Xega 🇦🇱
6 Habits That Can Turn You Into a High-Performer Rudi Xega 🇦🇱
The Number 1 Trait Needed to Succeed That No One Talks About Sandra Gabriella Di Francesco
How Anger Made Grief Feel Better Siddhartha Jaipuriyar
How is the Royal Family’s money spent? Sophie Newbold
The ethics of using real estate as an “investment” Srikanth
3 Important Tasks Of An Effective Manager. Srikanth Adivanna
AI Professionals Favorite Machine Learning Algorithms T.Ferguson
Why Humans Should Embrace Bodhichitta — The Ultimate Compassion Tan Pengshi Alvin
Lonely vs Alone tarun bhatt
Why Focusing On Your Happiness Is Best for Everyone Tavian Jean-Pierre
Hand-Picked Articles #82 Technology Hits
Sobriety Has Taught Me What Really Matters in Life and What Doesn’t The Sober Vegan Yogi
What Happened When I Went to America? Utpal Kumar
Unquiet Mind: Interconnectedness of Mind-Body-Soul Vahagn Chobanyan
St. George and the Fiery Dragon Warren "Storyteller" Brown
Please Don’t Walk Away William Vincent Carleton
You Are Granted Unlimited Wishes Just by Being Born Human William Vincent Carleton
10 Things You May Not Know About Me Dr. Preeti Singh
This is why time-blocking is actually harming your productivity Jonathan Fors
Traumatic Memories of Home Invasion by Thieves Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Thank you for reading these engaging and informative stories.
Let’s Meet Editors Who Publish These Stories
We are grateful for the efforts of our editors who reviewed and published these stories on their own time. Our editors are volunteers who help writers succeed on Medium. They don’t earn money from publishing. They are also contributing writers. You can check their profiles from the following links and connect with them.
Meet Dr Mehmet Yildiz — Dr Mehmet Yildiz — Owner and Chief Editor
We will add more editor profiles soon. You may also bookmark this collection managed by by ILLUMINATION-Curator so that you don’t miss when we add new profiles. Collection of Editor Bios: Meet Editors of Illumination Integrated Publications. Thank you for reading profiles of our editors.
Helpful References for New Writers
Science-Based Therapeutic Value of Expressive Writing for Mental Health
Copyright Matters: Zero tolerance to plagiarism on ILLUMINATION
Improving the Quality of Writing Using an Editorial Checklist
7 Tips for Freelance Writers Dealing with Chronic Stress Effectively
The Joy of Selling 1,000+ Books In A Month With Minimal Investment
What I Learned After Publishing 1,010 And Reading 100,000 Stories on Medium
Short-Form Stories Not For Income But For Visibility. Think Of Them As A Tripwire
ILLUMINATION on YouTube — New Publication
Illumination YouTube Coordinator crated a new publication for YouTube enthusiasts who can showcase their videos on Medium. All writers are invited to submit their YouTube related posts.
You may check video collection of Illumination YouTube Coordinator in the attached story.
Reference Articles
Curated Writer Bios
Learn about contributing writers of ILLUMINATION written by their pen
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Here are the reasons Why Writers Need Personal Publications!
Highlights from Euphoria Publication on Medium by our chief editor Dr Mehmet Yildiz who encourage writers to create their own publications. He posted a new newsletter to his subscribers today.
Social Media Update
Dr Mehmet Yildiz encouraged editors to join Twitter. His Twitter handle is https://twitter.com/digitalmehmet. He tweets stories he reads. As mentioned in this post, Technology Hits volunteered to create a post including Twitter handles of all editors. Here is a sample story by Illumination YouTube Coordinator reflecting his Twitter experience.
Thanks to Illumination YouTube Coordinator for creating this great video.
Invitation to New Writers
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