Featured Stories
Curated Collection #41
Selected stories for avid readers
Dear Readers,
We reviewed and compiled a small number of interesting stories published on ILLUMINATION out of many published pieces today. Our purpose is to give avid readers a quick taste of these stories from our diverse and inclusive publication on Medium. We value our writers as they support our readers.
Yesterday, we also created a curated collection from our special publication SYNERGY giving voice to freelance writers. We hope you find these informative stories valuable especially if you are into content development and marketing.
We established a new publication called “ILLUMINATION on YouTube” aiming to give voice to YouTubers on Medium and allow Medium writers to introduce their YouTube channel. Details are in this story. All writers and YouTubers are welcome to join this new journey.
We posted our monthly newsletter. We also posted it to Substack for our extended subscribers. We’d appreciate it if you can share the links in your social circles to keep the external audience informed of our progress for writers and readers.
As mentioned earlier, we decided to introduce new writers joining our publications in this post daily. Our purpose is to reduce the administrative workload for 15,000+ writers. This new approach will save us significant time. In addition, this new plan might give an opportunity to our existing writers to find and follow new writers. It is beneficial for previous and new writers for cross pollinating them actively.
Let’s give these new writers who join us today a warm welcome: Monty M. Gregory Cody, Amrita Mishra, David Parker, Teresa Morillas, Manas Patil, Beducated, Mark Clarkson, ConsciousCo, Alayne Unterberger, Elizabeth Sobieski, Frank Ontario, Sidra Masood. New writers, please check this onboarding pack before submitting your stories to our publications. Quality and style of your stories are important for our readers.
You may check featured collections in a single post titled Meta Collection of Featured Stories: Easy access to daily selected stories from engaging writers of ILLUMINATION: Volume 3–2022. We firmly believe that you find some valuable and enjoyable pieces on this collection and previous collections. You may also check great stories in our featured collection from the last three days. Here are the last three collections full of interesting stories covering many topics.Curated
The Last Three Collections by ILLUMINATION
Featured Stories from ILLUMINATION Today
Fat Loss Isn’t Complex. We Make It Mysteries. Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
“I assumed scientists don’t make mistakes. When I saw obese scientists and medical doctors, my perception changed. They are mortal beings like us. I learned better lessons from centenarians. Health has nothing to do with theory but a lot to do with listening to the body and make corrective actions.”
Six Lifestyle Habits to Skyrocket Fat Loss Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
“This post introduces six lifestyle habits that significantly impacted my health, especially shedding unwanted visceral fat. In addition, these habits helped me to become fat-adapted. They initiated autophagy eliminating loose skin after significant fat loss and define my belly after 50. Saggy skin and belly fat were the most obstinate things in my life.”
How I Make $99k Per Month, While Only Working Four Hours Per Week Matt Lillywhite #humor
How to Stop Playing Board Games Like There’s a Gun Pointing at Your Head Amy Sea
Undermining the Lessons of History’s Atrocities André Alyeska
Why you Aren’t Losing Weight and How to Turn it Around Once & For All Ange Dim
A Short Bio of who I am Jaja Requa
3 Shocking Steps To Become A Millionaire Abdulkadir Fooday
A Franz Kafka Story That Illuminates Us With the Real Purpose of Life Abhishek katare
How to Avoid Getting Sucked in YouTube Recommended Videos Alex Philippe
Religion: A Question of Faith or Controversy? Amit Kumar
Has Anyone Ever Had The Tinder Date Pasta? April Moons
How to Start Making Money in 2022 With Affiliate Marketing? ASAD EDUCATE
Pixelated Hearts: Working with middle schoolers on talking about self-regulation Becca Dorn-Medeiros, EdS
Suffering, Empathy, and Climate Change Benjamin Carter
Owning A Piece Of A Business Is The Path To Financial Freedom Biliz Maharjan
You can learn to talk like a Ninja Brenda Henning
Sexual Disillusion Brian Dickens Barrabee
Traveling Can be Nice, but also Stressful — a Story of Stressful Train Traveling Bryan Dijkhuizen
Is it Time to Take a Break from Writing? Carrie Tawil
Why We Need to Update Our Ideas About God Chad Gates
How To Have The Courage To Do What Is Necessary In 3 Steps Christina Sponias
Fiction Writing: Medium vs. Simily Crystal A. Walker
Tips for making money with tiktok Daniel
Confessions of the Mad — February 6, 2022 DMTakeshi
What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Don Martin
What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.
Cool Hand Luke put it into our vocabulary.
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The Snow Leopard: Superb Maxicards (Stamp + Postcard + Postmark — More Or Less Concordant) Dorin Cojocariu
How to Overcome Times of Adversity Eduard Sebastian
Get Off the Bus! Elizabeth Emerald
3 Powerful Words 2 Apologize Fanae-5, MS
How Long Can You Keep Working For Free? Floyd Mori
How To Find Your Writing Routine And Stick With It Franzi Kinzel
My Girlfriend Made Me See Why My Career Isn’t Thriving George Blue Kelly
Warren Buffett’s Secret for Your Productive Year Gereon Wellmann
Why You Don’t Need Supplements To Heal Your Body Gundega Tupiņa
Restless Dream H. N. Uhlig
The Smartest TV Show About Space Ilam Padmanabhan
The Metaverse Is Crashing But There Is A Way To Get Out Now Ilana Rabinowitz
Nine Health Measures Holding a Mirror to Inner Self Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Twitter’s 5K Follow Barrier James Hollomon
What if Something Happened to the Moon? Jasmine Aguilar
How to Conduct Effective and Productive Hiring Interviews Today Jeannette Seibly
Nine Health Measures Holding a Mirror to Inner Self Dr Mehmet Yildiz
The Secret Jennica Rose
New Ideas to Ponder From Featured Writers John Cunningham
Thanks Giving (Poem) Josie P. Julius
French Food Hacks I’ve Learned While Living Abroad Josie Timberlake
Boxed Cake Mix in Southern Living? Judy Owens
On unfulfilled revenge Julia Heussler
This Is How One Story Made A Difference Julian Cosky
Why The Winter Olympics are So Important Julius Evans
Black Women Appreciation! Justin Stinnett
The Metaverse Should Be Decentralized Kimanzi Constable
Why the Hell Unvaxxed Sperm Is the Next Bitcoin? Krishna V Chaudhary
Now It’s Official — Medium Removed This Smart Feature Kristina God
How Can I Overcome Shyness? Leonard Tillerman
Getting Down to My Comic Weight Lisa Burdige
I Ran Away From Home Mark Farnsworth
Son of Satan Part II: The Hive Mind and The Game of Life Markus Scorelius
Our thoughts create our reality- how does it work in our daily life? Marta Kusiak
5 Ridiculously Simple Steps To Dump Your Emotional Baggage For Good Mary Liga
5 Ridiculously Simple Steps To Dump Your Emotional Baggage For Good
It’s time to move on.
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The Silent Base Mary Louisa Cappelli
How To Journal For Healing Maytha
How Can You Ensure Safety And Survival In The Mountains? Mpdoc
Contemplating the Meaning of “The More You Know, The More You Realize You Don’t Know” Murtaza Ali
How To Become a Board Director Neil Mapes
Comedy, Records, and the skit that changed my life Nick Stockton
7 Side Gigs You Can Do Online to Earn Passive Income Nicky Christensen
This One Medium Story Earned Me Almost $50 as of This Writing Noah Nelson
Selling POD on Redbubble? Two Ways to Perform Keyword Research Nora
The Beauty Of A Waterfall Omkar Ranveerkar
A Changing Olympic Power Landscape Orange Gildersleeve
Horse Jockey Joins the Ranks of The Greatest African Americans in History Patti Murray Voncannon
Grateful and Greedy for the Beer the Monks Brew paulmartincurry
Right Matters — Truth Matters — And Normality Matters! Penny Grubb
Once Upon A Time, When There Was No Toilet in Our House Purbita Chakraborty
Success is Subjective. Don’t Let Anyone Tell You Otherwise Rafay Hiraj
So What Do We Do With Anger? Rafay Hiraj
4 Legitimate Ways to Make Money From Home in 2022 Richard Appiah
3 Popular Self-Improvement Traps That You Might Want to Avoid Sanket Pai
Murder Mystery in the Emergency Room (Part 1) Sharon Stephen
A Bloody Mess! Sohrab Khandelwal
Use What You Have to Level Up in Life Sonam Lama
THE SECRET OF THE STEERING WHEEL EFFECT Story Taller
The Art Of Self-Love Susan F Weimer
People are Being Sued for Using Creative Commons Images Susie Kearley
Can Money “Really” Help You Find Happiness? Terence Kong
A Giant List of 122 Questions Created To Dive Deeply Into Someone’s Mind The Sinfeld Times
Why 10 People Rejected A Terrible Apartment (And I Accepted It) Ticapo
My 14 Streams of Income in 2021 Vicky Hui
From Educators to Plant-repreneurs: Why forgo a stable $6000 monthly salary to run a plant nursery? Victoria-Marie
What to Do When You’ve Been Ghosted by a Guy You Really Like Wendy Scott
How Does a Broke Writer Get a Mortgage? Wes Putnam
21 Signs Your Partner Is Cheating on You Qasim Adam
Why You Shouldn’t Be As Frustrated By Your Audience As You Might Think J.D Rehbein-Wrightstein
We are raising another breed of American Harry Hogg
What is your “Claps” criteria? Eleanor A
My Date With Jane Austen — The Final Chapter Francesco Rizzuto
Five Weird Things Neurotypicals Often Say Lorrae G.
Make your children fight Nasar Karim
Article-a-Day: Sell More Books & Ebooks Jeff Herring
Sky Diving — a Poem Roxanne Barbour
In Case You Missed These Previously Featured Stories
Three Tips to Emotional Regulation Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Reading the Bible in a Year Has Not Been Conducive to Spiritual Growth Cathy Chapman, PhD
The True Story Of The Confederacy Moving To Brazil Matt Lillywhite
Three Tips to Improve Cardiovascular Health Dr Mehmet Yildiz
A Coat of Time Arthur G. Hernandez
Real Estate Agents Can Be the Worst Humans in the World Tim Denning
Why You Should Enjoy Social Media But Not Get Addicted To it Dr. Preeti Singh
Meet Lanu Pitan
Establishing Utopian America Qadir Abdus-Sabur, Ph.D.
Beware the Foot-Licking and Tooth-Pulling Demons from Persia Brian Loo Soon Hua
How I Healed Abdominal Bloating and Distension Dr Mehmet Yildiz
How I Earned $360 and 6,800 Views From A Single Story Viktor Marchev
Read This When You Want To Make Money Via Investing Richelle Délia, PhD
Breakups: 7 Reasons Why You Don’t Need Your Ex Back Rodolfo Urbano, CPA
How Reading Scientific Research Can Improve Your Writing: A Beginner’s Guide. Ben Rutt, PhD
On Trauma & Addiction: Lessons from a Defensive Iceberg and His Oversized Hat Dr. Cort Dorn-Medeiros
Shocking Stats About Non-Communicable Diseases Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Stop the Screen Wars: How to Make Screen Transitions a Little Less Painful Dr. Cort Dorn-Medeiros
WHY are you asking me this? Dr Andrea Polzer
Times Change From Good Old Stiff Neck Ties To modern Gorpcore Dr. Preeti Singh
Meet Julius Evans by ILLUMINATION
Meet Sufyan Maan by ILLUMINATION
Invitation to My New Publication Illumination YouTube Coordinator
How Ali Abdaal Gets Millions Of YouTube Views Matt Lillywhite
Trending Stories
Five Tips to Melt Visceral Fat and Have a Defined Belly Dr Mehmet Yildiz
School Should Teach Us These Eight Simple Things (Yet It Doesn’t) Tim Denning
Fasting Can Change Brain Chemistry Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Reasons Why My (European) Husband and I Will Eventually Leave America Anastasia Frugaard
Five Tips to Slow Down, Lose Fat, and Enjoy Life Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Thank you for reading these great stories.
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Helpful References for New Writers
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Short-Form Stories Not For Income But For Visibility. Think Of Them As A Tripwire
Improving the Quality of Writing Using an Editorial Checklist
Copyright Matters: Zero tolerance to plagiarism on ILLUMINATION
The Joy of Selling 1,000+ Books In A Month With Minimal Investment
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Illumination YouTube Coordinator has created a new specialist publication for YouTube enthusiasts. All writers are invited. We will announce this new publication shortly. This is sneak preview for writers and readers.
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