Featured Stories
Curated Collection #62
Chosen stories from experienced writers for avid readers
Dear Readers,
Our purpose is to give avid readers a quick taste of engaging stories from our diverse and inclusive publication ILLUMINATION on Medium this weekend. Gratefully, around 15,000 writers contribute to our publications.
From their recent stories, we have chosen some interesting pieces published on our publication out of many today. Our writers offer fresh stories. We redesigned our frontpage to create more visibility of their fresh stories.
We value the efforts of our writers who delight loyal readers. You may also check useful stories from a curated collection of our special publication SYNERGY giving voice to freelance writers.
Illumination YouTube Coordinator introduced ones one prolific writers and editor of our publications, Lawson Wallace on YouTube yesterday.
You may also check his introduction to Bill Abbate.
We reviewed sad stories about the situation in Ukraine affecting us globally. ILLUMINATION-Curator compiled some interesting stories and created a post inviting writers and readers to share their thoughts on this sad development. Please feel feel free comment on the attached story. We value your opinions.
Senior editor of Technology Hits publication shares collections of reading from ILLUMINATION’s curated lists daily. We appreciate efforts and contributions of our editors.
They believe that amplifying outstanding stories is valuable for both writers and readers. We are pleased that Technology Hits also has started featuring stories from SYNERGY and will be posting from other publications soon.
Here are the links to the last five hand-picked collections. You might subscribe to Technology Hits to be notified on these hand-picked collections.
You can find the older versions at this link.
You might also check our new publication called “ILLUMINATION on YouTube”. Its purpose is to give voice to YouTubers on Medium and allow Medium writers to introduce their YouTube channel. Social media content writers and YouTubers are welcome to join this exciting publication. This pub is owned by Illumination YouTube Coordinator. Details are in this story.
Attention New Writer
Let’s welcome new writers joining us today: Belcairn, Sam Schreim, Richard Appiah, Moshe Mor, Adesola Orimalade, Midi O’Rourke, Sarp Öngelen, Alex Chase, Vi Valenzuela, Anaya Nosso, Kelly Vincent, Bahuguna, Leah Welborn, Araci Almeida, Amanda Marks, Nadeyat’sya, T.Ferguson, Chappell Skywalker. Thank you for joning. We have now 14,000 writers contributing to our publications.
You will receive an invitation to our Slack group sent by Dr Mehmet Yildiz shortly. Joining Slack is optional and free. It has many benefits for writers. We have more than 12,000 writers collaborating this workspace.
In the meantime, please review our onboarding pack before submitting your stories. It covers essential information to get you started. If you submit quality stories with captioned and copyright free images, our editors can publish them quickly.
Please particularly read the photo handling policy attached int the pack. We also don’t accept plagiarised content and remove offenders. In addition, Medium suspends the accounts of plagiarizers.
We keep our featured collections in a single post titled Meta Collection of Featured Stories. 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
We believe you find some valuable and enjoyable pieces on this collection and previous collections.
Featured Stories from ILLUMINATION Today
Five Practical Steps to Beat Chronic Stress for a Healthy & Satisfying Life Dr Mehmet Yildiz #mental-health #health
Ten Practical Steps Fixed Lucy’s Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health #mental-health
Ukraine: A Short Story Frank T Bird
You Don’t Have to Apologize for Things You Enjoy Ira Robinson
A paper claiming smartphones created a mental health crisis in young girls should be retracted James C. Coyne
An Old Lady, a Troll, and a Very Nice Writer. Janet Meisel
64 Crayons Aasha Krishnan
Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is a Window to the World Abhishek katare
Research shows 30 minutes of exercise daily is an effective weight loss practice. Abika
8 Habits You Can Only Learn from Rich Mentality People Agent Badet
4 Simple Rules to Write Faster Aliou Sidibé
Will You Extend Your Life Through Intermittent Fasting? Ange Dim
What Three Years of College Have Taught Me Ankit Nagar
I Earned 500+ Followers in 1 Week, and So Can You — Follow for Follow Balancing Act
7 Stages of the David Perlmutter Experience Benjamin Carter
Robots In Healthcare and Beyond Beth Byfield
Tips for a Healthy Relationship Bogdan Munteanu
Best Negotiation Tactic to Always Get Your Way Calum James
The Surprising Reasons Why I Continued Jung’s Research Christina Sponias
Why does Ukraine matter? Cosmin Firta
5 Ways to Improve Your Management Skills Crystal Mathews
Remembering My Grandmother from Ukraine DC Palter
YouTube Must Block War Games Ads Now Dimitrios Fanourios Pischinas
To Vax, or Not to Vax? Elizabeth Emerald
The One Thing That Makes It Hard For People to Reject You in Any Situation Emmanuel A. Anderson
Three Little Mindset Shifts That Can Make a Big Difference Enya Ray
How To Deal with Weapons of Mass Distraction Fahri Karakas
Worrying About People In A Story Reading About Themselves Floyd Mori
Should You Study Psychology? Galen Bjarnesen
I Spent Four Years Avoiding My Crush Gerald Sturgill
How to write a good term paper Gilberto Sapalo
Why Do We Laugh When Tickled? Gokhan Yalcuk
Tequila Truth Harry Hogg
8 Creative Ways to Make Extra Money Hidayatullah
These 3 Balances Are Essential for Saving Your Relationship Jason Aro
Why Does Money Always Get A Bad Rap? And The 25% Test. Jennifer Thompson
Why Does Money Always Get A Bad Rap? And The 25% Test.
Conflicting Messages Around Money.
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The 7 Most Common Mistakes Made in Affiliate Marketing Johnathan Reeper
Being A Black Man in America Justin Stinnett
Craft.do — most beautifully designed Note-taking app! Kaushik Trivedi
Seito Sakakibara: The Kobe School Killer — Japan Kevin Vogel
Maybe Some Stereotypes Are True — And We Need to Be Accountable Khadejah
Things You Didn’t Know About Social Media Larrylambert
So Long 9 to 5! Leonard Tillerman
Why a Plant Based Diet is Scientifically Proven Healthy Libby Shively McAvoy
What You Don’t Know About Magnesium Can Hurt You Lisa Manzer
What You Don’t Know About Magnesium Can Hurt You
Don’t count on your lab work for answers
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The Richest Person in Indianapolis Owns the World’s Largest Real Estate Investment Trust Luay Rahil
5-Minute Movie Review: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)
Do You Even Read Bro? Mandy McElroy
9 Beautiful Place I Would Like to Visit Before Leaving Earth Manoj Pandit
What We Can Learn From the Ottawa “Freedom” Convoy Mark Farnsworth
Can We get Serious about First Contact yet? Markus Scorelius
Improve Your Content Creation Workflow With “.new” Links Marvin Wendt
How I Make $250 Per Day In Passive Income Matt Lillywhite
What Will Happen If We Do Yoga Every Day for 30 Days Midori by the Sea
Get Envious or Get Inspired? Mike Lewis
Hunter S. Thompson Daily Routine — An Odd Way of Life Mofrad Muntasir
How Mother Nature Defeated the Pandemic Mukundarajan V N
Russia Will Lose The War Mustafa Pekcandanoğlu
Birds Nasar Karim
Medium Helped Me Make Money, Just Not How I Thought It Was Going To Work Nathan White
What makes Jo March Tick Niina's Fairychamber
4 Ways AI Can Improve Your Productivity Niklas Lang
Why You Should Try Period Pants Nkeonye Judith Izuka-Aguocha
Great Way to Fried Restaurant Quality Potatoes at Home Oguz Bayata
Some quick important words for my followers Passiveblog
On Thursday, February 10th, 2022, a Farmington MI. Patti Murray Voncannon
Why Can’t We Let Our Leaders Be Human Like The Rest Of Us Paul Walker
How Would You Like To Be E.N.T. J? Pius Adejumobi
I Absolutely, Positively HATE Advertising Quentin Plume
How To Stop Poking Your Nose In Other People’s Business Riaz Laskar
The Obsidian Rose Roxy Wright
Five Things You Didn’t Know About Vladimir Putin S M Mamunur Rahman
Adaptation: A Key Skill to Thrive in the New Normal Sanket Pai
Craziness in Our Very Reality Sarah Marie
One Theory of Gravitational Pull Scott Ahlsmith
What is the Natural Source of Our Responsibility? Shashi Sastry
The ones who love us will always love us Shivam Verma
I Enlisted in the Russian Army Like I Joined ISIS Skippy von Alte Welt
How do you Start a Funny Conversation? Syed A. Idrees
Hand-Picked Articles #29 Technology Hits
What Are 7 Signs That Someone Grew Up With Sh*tty Parents? The Sinfeld Times
A Guide to Machine Learning (ML) for Children Thetutorme
Putin Just Poured Ketchup in YOUR Coffee Tim Ebl
Putin Gets SWIFT Justice Tree Langdon
Certainties Ulf Wolf
Money, Sex & Religion: Three Topics You Must Discuss With Your Date Before It’s Too Late Wendy Scott
How I Got My Cherry Popped! Eric Garner Johnson
How To Use The Law Of Attraction To Get Fit Josie Timberlake
Elon Musk WW3 Warning to Russia You, Me and Happiness
Dating and Devaluation Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue, Author on Amazon
Gates Nova Binx
Why you’re not getting smarter every day Nathan M
5 Weird As Sh*t Things Neurotypical Women Do Lorrae G.
Your Hobbies Help You Overcome Your BAD PHASE. Trust ME! Krishna V Chaudhary
Make Way For Ukraine To European Union! AMIKO
Awkward Turtles Make Weird Babies Linda Osipow
Dominated Freedom. Chandani
Why Don’t We Link Ourselves in Comments? Coke Francis
20 Surefire Signs a Shy Guy Likes You Qasim Adam
Project Management — How Busy Is Your Life? Elisabete Gonçalves da Silva
She Was Wild Charlene Erazo
On Matters of Four Platonic Friends Living Together Lady Teabird
Astronomers have caught supermassive black holes on the edge of the junction Mr.Milano
Let Me Be My Picky Eater Self, Please! Mélissa Diaby
Frederic Chopin Ted's List
Freelance Writing — 31 Writing Call For Submissions (as of 02/28/22) — Make Money By Writing… Pamela Kazmierczak
Do You Always Make a Plan? Marsha Hamby Savage
Financial Fraud Of Bernard Madoff — The World’s Largest Ponzi Scheme. Anchit Jassal
13 Animals that Symbolise Wisdom Trevor E Hudson
Today is the First Story of the Rest of My Life… Don Martin
A Mining Town Turned Into A Major Tourist Attraction Floyd Mori
Thank you for reading these stories published today. We will present more stories tomorrow. You might also check previously featured stories from our collections.
Selected Stories from Previously Featured Stories
Invitation to Write for ILLUMINATION on YouTube Publication Illumination YouTube Coordinator
Magnesium Is Not Just Another Mineral Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
Reading the Bible in a Year Has Not Been Conducive to Spiritual Growth Cathy Chapman, PhD
How Reading Scientific Research Can Improve Your Writing: A Beginner’s Guide. Ben Rutt, PhD
Seeing The Bourgeois Revaluation in Literature Ellen Clardy, PhD #economy
Bolstered Dr. Fatima Imam
Does Optimism Stink as Bad as Pessimism? Amy Sea
Three Tips to Prevent & Treat Obesity Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
My Most Cherished Moment Working on “The West Wing” TV Show David Gerken #life-lessons
Squeeze the Juice Out of the Present Stop Daydreaming About the Future Ayodeji Awosika #self-improvement
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
Three Tips to Emotional Regulation Dr Mehmet Yildiz
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 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
How I Healed Abdominal Bloating and Distension Dr Mehmet Yildiz
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
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
Trending Stories on Publication
Three Tips to Eliminate Insulin Resistance and Shrink Waistline Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Five Tips to Melt Visceral Fat and Have a Defined Belly Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Six Lifestyle Habits to Skyrocket Fat Loss Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
Fasting Can Change Brain Chemistry Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Five Tips to Slow Down, Lose Fat, and Enjoy Life Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Reasons Why My (European) Husband and I Will Eventually Leave America Anastasia Frugaard
Thank you for reading these engaging stories.
Meet Our Editors
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Helpful References for New Writers
Science-Based Therapeutic Value of Expressive Writing for Mental Health
What I Learned After Publishing 1,010 And Reading 100,000 Stories on Medium
7 Tips for Freelance Writers Dealing with Chronic Stress Effectively
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
ILLUMINATION on YouTube — Our New Publication
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.
Recent Videos from Illumination YouTube Channel
We hope you enjoy this valuable and inspiring video about writing viral stories by Illumination YouTube Coordinator
Our quality checklist for writers to improve stories…
An introduction to the value of YouTube for Medium Writers
An introduction to Illumination Integration Publications on Medium
Meet Bill Abbate, senior ediotor of ILLUMINATION, on YouTube
A video introducing Karen Madej, top writer and senior editor of ILLUMINATION.
Here is a video introducing Julius Evans, top writer and editor of Illumination Integrated Publications on Medium
Another video introducing Shashi Sastry, top writer on Medium and published author — Philosophy of Life Instinct
A video introducing our inspiring editor Dr. Preeti Singh…
A video introducing Arlo Hennings
A video introducing Carla Woody on YouTube
A video introducing Dr Michael Heng, top writer, thought leaders, and editor of Illumination Integrated Publications on Medium
A video Introducing Lawson Wallace, prolific writer and editor of Illumination.
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Reference Documents
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!
Updates and Highlights from Euphoria Publication on Medium by our chief editor Dr Mehmet Yildiz who encourage writers to create their own publications
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