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The undefined website features curated collections of stories from experienced writers, promotes diverse and inclusive content through Illumination publications on Medium, and provides guidance for new writers, all while maintaining a policy against AI-generated content except in designated spaces.

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The undefined website is a hub for avid readers and writers, offering a collection of handpicked articles that cover a wide range of topics. It emphasizes the inclusion of content from various authors, with a focus on quality and originality. The platform encourages contributions from its 19,500+ writers and supports them with an onboarding pack. It also strictly enforces a policy against AI-generated content, with the exception of its publication "Lampshade of Illumination," which is designed for AI content. The website celebrates the work of its contributors through features and collections, and it fosters a community of writers with resources and communication channels such as Slack. The content ranges from personal experiences and advice to technical and philosophical discussions, reflecting the diversity of its writer base.

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  • The website values human-generated content, emphasizing the importance of originality and creativity in storytelling.
  • There is a strong community aspect, with volunteer editors playing a crucial role in promoting and featuring quality stories.
  • The platform is inclusive, welcoming new writers with resources to help them succeed and integrating them into the community.
  • The website's editors use various tools to ensure content authenticity and adherence to the platform's content policy.
  • The use of Medium's algorithm is discussed as a way to increase the visibility and success of writers' contributions.
  • There is an emphasis on the benefits of joining the publication's Slack workspace for networking, support, and collaboration among writers.
  • The website encourages writers to share their personal stories and backgrounds to connect with readers on a deeper level.
  • The platform acknowledges the challenges of writing and offers advice on dealing with issues such as writer's block and the importance of self-editing.
  • There is a recognition of the need for writers to adapt to the evolving landscape of digital publishing and content distribution.

Featured Stories

Curated Collection #99

Chosen stories from experienced writers for avid readers

Photo by Sebastian Voortman from Pexels

Dear Readers and Writers,

Today, we selected great pieces out of hundreds of stories published on Illumination. These engaging and informative pieces in the collection cover various topics.

Our aim is to give you a quick taste of our diverse and inclusive publication, ILLUMINATION on Medium.

As 19,500+ writers contribute to our publications, we are grateful to publish and promote engaging, informative, and interesting stories each day. Many thanks our volunteer editors who published these great stories today and recommended for featuring.

AI-Generated Content Policy

Stories submitted to Illumination Integrated Publications listed below should follow this policy statement guideline:

Your story content must be 100% human-generated and original, as validated by various tools our editors use. Stories not meeting this guideline will not be accepted in our publications except for our new publication, “Lampshade of Illumination,” designed to support AI-Generated content.

ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications include:

ILLUMINATION ILLUMINATION-Curated ILLUMINATION’ S MIRROR ILLUMINATION Book Chapters Technology Hits SYNERGY Readers Hope Illumination Videos and Podcasts Illumination Gaming ILLUMINATION’s Blog Lampshade of Illumination EUPHORIA by Dr Mehmet Yildiz

We hope these great pieces satisfy your reading needs. Today, Technology Hits posted Hand-Picked Articles collection #67. It is the curated version of collection #51 by Illumination editors.

You might find 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 informative, engaging, and interesting content of our writers using various approaches and tools.

In addition, today, ILLUMINATION-Curator shared outstanding stories from our special publication Illumination-Curated. We are grateful for the support of our volunteer editors investing their precious time to make our writers and readers happy.

Let’s welcome new writers joining us today!

Sydel Brown, D. A. Langley, Topher Freeman, Adrienne O’Brien LMT, Lee Wheaterly, Sobaan Saeed, Dr. Ahmed Al-Jaishi, Elizabeth Ann Curran, Ajmal Khan, Justin C, Ben Smith, Devansh Yadav, Elia Yousf, Charisse Tyson, Chase Dillon, Julien Bellos, Mahmudur Rahman, Friska Riani, Hardik Jain, Muhammad Sarwar, Aakash Dahal, Ken Li.

Thanks for joining our publications. We look forward to your interesting stories. Please review the attached onboarding pack before submitting your stories, as it includes helpful information to get you started quickly. If you submit quality stories with captioned and copyright-free images, our editors can publish them faster. As a quick reminder, please particularly review the photo handling policy attached in the pack.

We publish stories that meet Medium policy, so we accept content written by you. More specifically, we don’t publish stolen content. Hence, we remove offenders as as soon as we confirm the offence using our tools and assessment of our editors. In addition, Medium suspends the accounts of plagiarizer.

We look forward to your great stories. Please remember to turn on your private messages as there is no other way for our editors to communicate with you, except for Slack. If your private message is not available and you are not on Slack we had no option but reject your stories when we see problems while reviewing.

Dr Mehmet Yildiz, our chief editor, will send you an invitation to our Slack workspace via the email you registered in the application form. Joining Slack is optional and free for all members. If you cannot see publications, please contact Dr Yildiz directly on Slack. When your stories get delayed or you have other issues, you may contact him directly via Slack.

Slack workspace has numerous benefits for writers. Currently, 11,400+ writers are members of Slack and collaborating in this moderated workspace. It is a safer than social media as it is moderated by editors. You may check Illumination Blog for guiding article.

It will be great to introduce yourself in a story like the ones in this collection. 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.

The Last Three Collections by ILLUMINATION

Here are the last three collections full of interesting, engaging, and informative stories covering numerous topics.

We believe you might find valuable and enjoyable pieces on the new collection and previous collections.

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Featured Stories from ILLUMINATION Today

How to Reduce Visceral Fat and Increase Brown Fat with Two Practical Steps Dr Mehmet Yildiz

Why My Australian Wife Had the Urge to Slap a Danish Man Dr Mehmet Yildiz

What Color is Your Parachute Arlo Hennings, Ph.D.

New Year’s Resolution — Immortality Arlo Hennings, Ph.D.

You Will Not Look At Your Overthinking This Way Dr Ashish Juneja

Use This Mindset Shift To Confidently Say “I Don’t Know” Dr. Sarah Lyall-Neal

Make This Week a Healing Week Soojin Jun, PharmD

How To Make A Million Dollars From Writing Matt Lillywhite

What Guilt Feels Like A.H. Mehr

Nonsense over my NewsBreak experience. Alishah Savage

NewsBreak Suspended My Account and I’m More Than Happy Abhi Thakur

The Most Efficient Way To Learn Data Analisis in 12 Weeks: Step By Step Guide Alain Saamego

Cyber Security: The Impact of Cyber Security on Your Business Alain Saamego

Two systems. One mind Alex Artenie

Everyday Poka-Yokes — 5 Foolproof Ways to Do the Right Thing Alex Philippe

Declutter Your Life Aline Henda

Scrub America Zed⚡

Why the “£10k Month” Online Culture is Toxic Amy Cubbon

Dopesick: Overcoming Addiction and Mental Health Issues Andrea Duran

San Francisco is Really Weird. But Not Only the Way You Think. Andrew Nelson

The Most Annoying Thing About Being A Parent Andrey Pilipets

Something Must be Broken on Medium.com Ann Christine Tabaka

A Mother’s Child Is Missing Araci Almeida

Are we worthy of the kindness nature has shown us? Aswathi Ashok

Forgiveness Is A Journey Author, D. Denise Dianaty

You Only Control The Effort, Not The Results Biliz Maharjan

7 Mistakes That Unsuccessful People do ..You Should Avoid Bloody blogger

Sleep & Relax 4 Real YouTube Channel Bogdan Mtn

I Just Self-Published My First Book- Lessons Learned and Tips! Breezy

My Story Received 4.6K Views, 1.6K Reads and Made $1.16 Brenda Mahler

The Joy of Sobriety Bridget Stella Ruxton Wilson

New Jersey High Schools New Law Brooklyn Muse

New Jersey Plastic Bag Ban Brooklyn Muse

Here’s How To Get Rewarded by the Medium Algorithm Caleb Naysmith

Loyalty Casey Lawrence

The Power of Connection Charlene Erazo

Why We Should Have Gratitude Chasing Dreams

50 Claps Are Easier Than You Think Chris Freyler

Warning: How a Balanced and Reasonable Friend Became Psychotic Christina Sponias

What happens when we die? When you need love and acceptance. Cosmin Firta

Think You’re Too Old To Try Something New? Cynthia C Farley

Use These Tags To Go Viral — April 2022 Update Daniel Mesa

How Removing The Phone Draft Feature Prevents Me From Writing Dominika Antonas

Challenges of the Startup Yesterday Don Martin

The Only Way to Have Complete Freedom Online is With Your Own Website Edward John

What’s Stopping You from Starting Again? Elaine Hilides

Resurrection Elizabeth Emerald

Keys To Awaken Your Unlimited Creative Potential And Power Elle Sommer

Reflecting On March And My Goals For April Emma Ryan

Hack your body — serotonin, the happiness hormone Eric Kulbiej

Three Business Concepts to Help You Manage Your Career Etienne Yuan

Some Advice Related to Money Floyd Mori

A Two Year Old Fatally Shot His Sister Floyd Mori

Emergency’s Politruck helps those fleeing the war in Ukraine Francesco Carrubba

The Havana Syndrome continues to be discussed Francesco Carrubba

Writing About Technology: The Reporter’s View Geri Spieler

Help. I’ve Run Out of New Ideas? Now what? Geri Spieler

5 Important E-Mail Mistakes Successful People Never Do Gökhan Yalcuk

The Sudden Gout Sprout! Harry Hogg

Political Worms Have Crawled into Powerful Places Harry Hogg

Curated Collection #98 ILLUMINATION

Outstanding Stories — Volume 86 ILLUMINATION-Curator

A Candle For The Dead Imad

How to find your way in life when you feel lost Ingerul Pierdut

How to Tell If Your Parent Is Narcissistic J.C. Anne Brown

Why Outlining Will Make You A Better Writer J.R. Heimbigner

Out of the Closet Jacinta Palmer

Could I Be Wrong? Could You Be Wrong? James Ssekamatte

As I Continue My Virtual Journey Along The Salt Path, I Compare The Winn’s Risky Adventure To My… Janice Macdonald

Life Is Like A Horse Trying To Throw You Off So How Do You Get Back On And Ride Jason Morton

From Article to Podcast Interview Jeff Herring

Deadly Mistake To Avoid On Your Business Start-up Jerry Pompilio

5 Surprising Ways Lifting Weights Will Change Your Life Jessey Anthony

Oklahoma Criminalizes Abortion: Turning the Clock Back 50 Years Jessica Hubbert

Leadership Secrets: Why High Standards Need Failure John McClymont

10 Books Recommended by the Dalai Lama on Tibetan and Buddhist Philosophy Jose Luis Ontanon Nunez

3 Tips for Coming Out of the Psychedelic Closet to Loved Ones Julia Blum

Simple (and Important) Ways To Practice Self-Compassion & Self-Love Karen Parquet

War is in Us Karlo Tasler

GRIP Book — Part 1, Grip & Your WEEK Kaushik Trivedi

The Oscars Weren’t Just About Will Smith Kay Valley

I tried polyphasic sleep so you don’t have to Kiraly Octavian

Wonderfully Good News That Helped Soothe And Brighten My Whole Future KL Simmons

What Would Happen To You If You Had A Regular, Mandatory Psychologist’s Appointment At Work? kristin schuhknecht

I had 100 Followers, but was I Accepted? Kristina Oberlander

Three Years Ago, I Had My Last Drink Lauren Hall

Britney Griner Picked a Bad Time to Do Something Dumb Lawson Wallace

Dating Online, But Don’t Want Kids? Len Morse

10 Incredibly Honest Wake-Up Calls by Gary Vee Letters from E.K.

7 Reasons Why Your Discomfort Zone Can Revolutionize Your Life Letters from E.K.

The Only One Thing That Arouses Women: With A Catch Livia Dabs RN,MSc

The Monster of Jealousy Lone Brinkmann ✒️📖📚

This Company Controls 250 Million Patients’ Medical Records Luay Rahil

This Is Us Was Too Real Tonight Mandy McElroy

Simple Exercises to Raise Happiness Marianne O

Tesla Stock Is Still Worth a Much More Mark Hake

The Uncivil War in the U.S. Mary Anne Hahn

Kosmo — The ‘New Best’ Freelancing Software of 2022 Matthew Davis

Admit It — You Don’t Care About Climate Change — No One Does Mike Lewis

Why Robinhood is the Best Stock Brokerage for Beginners Mike Toney-Hoffman

Too Tall, Too Big Misty Rae

The Ant and Hawk Nasar Karim

I’ve Been Writing a Ton, But Not Publishing Much Nathan White

How to draw an animal — Tutorial — My Puppy — IbisPaintX Nedelcu Alina

Dating and an Open Mouth Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue, Author on Amazon

Smash Your Marketing Strategy With This Ultimate 3-in-1 Strategic Analysis Template Nova Richards🪐

3 Magazines and Websites That Pay at Least $100.00 Per Nonfiction Article Pamela Kazmierczak

Loving Your Son Paul Neathery

Stranded Penny Grubb

This Graph Will Change your Life! Peter White

Leaving the Hospital on a Spring Morning RBGraham

Why Courageous Optimism Keeps My Followers Coming Back for More Richard Armstrong

Do You Travel to Enjoy, Learn and Discover or Disrespect new Countries, Cultures, and its People? Rob Hourmont

Don’t Waste the Experience of Building Your First 100 Followers Samantha J Vincent

How to Fight Relationship Stress and Win Sandra Pawula

Let’s Create A World Where It’s Okay To Not Be Okay! Sara Marium

9 Things that People Regret the Most from their Teenage Years serendipity

Don’t Ask Me To Work For Your Company Without Telling Me How Much I’m Being Paid Shamar M

The Bird, the Cow & the Cat Shawn Jr

You Will Be Hearing From The Youths Soon Sohail

Why I choose to be a mediocre employee Srikanth

Meditation — To Restrict or Liberate? Sriram Balasubramanian

Are you accidentally infringing the intellectual property (IP) rights of others? Steve Sponseller

Protect your Critical Inventions in a Fast and Cost-Effective Manner Steve Sponseller

The Weight of Exercise Steven Anthony

I did Yoga Nidra Each Day for 30 Days Story Taller

I Took a 20-Minute Bath Each Day for 41 Days Sufyan Maan, M.Eng

Melbourne Mornings Suma Narayan

Hand-Picked Articles #66 Technology Hits

Hand-Picked Articles #67 Technology Hits

10 Important Life Lessons Your Children Should Learn Before They Hit 10 Terence Kong

Why Do Men Drop Their Pants in Front of Me? The Sober Vegan Yogi

Language Ulf Wolf

You Are a Victim of These 7 Deceptive Business Practices Vishal Mehta

The 5 Things I Do in Notice Period After Resigning From My Job Vishal Mehta

Chronicle: You’ve got a friend in me Vivianne Chagas

Elon Musk Feuds with White House Yancy Dennis

Slow or Fast, How Long Will You Last? You, Me and Happiness

Featured Pieces from Yesterday’s Collection

An Award-Winning Conference Ended Up in a Health Disaster in Boston Dr Mehmet Yildiz

How to Take More Risks by Losing Attachment to Outcomes Dr. Cort Dorn-Medeiros

Don’t Let Sleep Steal Your Golden Years dr.pisoglou

We’re All Fat, But There Is More Than One Reason Christyl Rivers, Phd.

Get a Free Data Science With Python Course with a Certificate! Alain Saamego

5 Powerful Words that Will Positively Change Your Life Zeenat Merchant Syal, M.A, M.Sc

My Australian Wife Refused to Revisit Amsterdam After Two Dramatic Incidents Dr Mehmet Yildiz

Doctors Should Not Shy Away From Faith Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa

The Omicron Saga Agustín Muñoz-Sanz

Thank you for reading these engaging 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 YildizDr Mehmet Yildiz — owner and chief editor

Meet Dr Preeti SinghDr. Preeti Singh

Meet Dr Michael HENG, PBMDr Michael Heng

Meet Dr John Frederick Rose Dr John Frederick Rose

Meet Arlo Hennings, PhDArlo Hennings, Ph.D.

Meet Sufyan MaanSufyan Maan, M.Eng

Meet Arthur G Hernandez Arthur G. Hernandez

Meet Bill AbbateBill Abbate

Meet Michael PatanellaMichael Patanella

Meet Brooklyn MuseBrooklyn Muse

Meet Josh Balerite AcolJosh Balerite Acol

Meet Jennifer GeerJennifer Geer

Meet Lawson WallaceLawson Wallace

Meet John CunninghamJohn Cunningham

Meet Vidya SuryVidya Sury, Collecting Smiles

Meet Maria RattrayMaria Rattray

Meet Ntathu AllenNtathu Allen

Meet Lanu PitanLanu Pitan

Meet Helen MüllerYou, Me and Happiness

Meet Julius L. EvansJulius Evans

Meet Gregory MaidmanMarcus aka Gregory Maidman

Meet Joe LucaJoe Luca

Meet Bryan Dijkhuizen Bryan Dijkhuizen

Meet Aldric ChenAldric Chen

Meet Sumera RizwanSumera Rizwan

Meet Kristina SegarraKristina Segarra

Meet Carrie Alice Kelly Carrie

Meet J.S. AdamJS Adam

Meet Britni PepperBritni Pepper

Meet Carol PriceCarol Price

Meet Michael NagyMichael Nagy

Meet Kasey HarringtonKasey Harrington

Meet Karen MadejKaren Madej

Meet Neha SandhirNeha Sandhir S

Meet Agnes LaurensAgnes Laurens

Meet Steve Alexander (Alex)The Wordsmith™🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸

Meet Aamir KamalAamir Kamal 🚀🚀🚀

Meet Chelsea MandlerChelsea Mandler MAT

Meet Lilith MorningstaarLilith Morningstaar

Meet Krishna V Chaudhary Krishna V Chaudhary

Meet Zen Chan

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

How To Triple Your Writing Income Methodically

How To Become A Top Writer In Three Months

6 Easy & Proven Tips to Increase Followers

8 Proven Tips to Build a Rock-Solid Reading Audience

Conduct Guidelines for ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications

100 Day Challenge For New Writers

1,000 Short Posts in 100 Days

Invitation To A Writing Challenge

Introduce Your Newsletters and Grow Your Mailing Lists

Improving the Quality of Writing Using an Editorial Checklist

How To Create A 30,000 Words E-book In A Month

7 Tips for Freelance Writers Dealing with Chronic Stress Effectively

Storybooks and Indexing Publications

A Compelling Passive Income Stream For Freelance Writers

Science-Based Therapeutic Value of Expressive Writing for Mental Health

How to Turn Cold Calls to Warm Outcomes

WRITERS INVITED TO PROMOTE THEIR PUBLICATIONS

The Joy of Selling 1,000+ Books In A Month With Minimal Investment

What Readers Want to Hear vs What They Really Need to Know

Short-Form Stories Not For Income But For Visibility. Think Of Them As A Tripwire

Five Questions To Increase Curation Chance and Reading Fans

Invitation To A Writing Challenge

No Defamation, Discrimination, And Hate Speech Published

Copyright Matters: Zero tolerance to plagiarism on ILLUMINATION

Why Image Copyrights Matter for Writers and Editors

How to Survive and Thrive on Medium

How Writers Can Use YouTube Creatively and Productively

What I Learned After Publishing 1,010 And Reading 100,000 Stories on Medium

Use of Affiliate Links On Medium

ILLUMINATION Fiction Club

ILLUMINATION Poetry Club

Welcome To The TSEE Club

Mentoring on ILLUMINATION

Yes, We Accept Short-Form Stories

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.

Selected Videos from Illumination YouTube Channel

We hope you enjoy the attached videos by Illumination YouTube Coordinator

This video gives tips on writing viral stories on Medium.

This video is an introduction to the value of YouTube for Medium Writers.

This video is about our quality checklist for writers to improve stories. This is an essential resource for our contributing writers.

Meet Bill Abbate, senior editor of ILLUMINATION, on YouTube

A video introducing Carla Woody on YouTube

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 Karen Madej, top writer and senior editor of ILLUMINATION.

A video Introducing Lawson Wallace, prolific writer and editor of Illumination.

Here is a video introducing Julius Evans, top writer and editor of Illumination Integrated Publications on Medium

Here is a video introducing our senior editor, Joe Luca on YouTube.

A video introducing Dr Michael Heng, top writer, thought leaders, and editor of Illumination Integrated Publications on Medium

More videos on Illuminaton YouTube channel…Please subscribe to be notified when we post new videos.

Reference Documents for Publications

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. As mentioned in this post, Technology Hits volunteered to create a post including Twitter handles of all editors soon. Our editors tweet stories when they publish. In the meantime, you might follow our lead editors. You might check this initial feedback from the Illumination YouTube Coordinator in a recent story after joining Twitter.

https://twitter.com/digitalmehmet

https://twitter.com/Illum_official

https://twitter.com/IlluminationCur

https://twitter.com/TechHitsEditor

https://twitter.com/AidenTYMC

https://twitter.com/JoshBaleritAcol

https://twitter.com/DrMichaelHENG1

https://twitter.com/preetis15

https://twitter.com/JA_Geer

https://twitter.com/ArthurGHernan

https://twitter.com/BillAbbate

https://twitter.com/wrtwrds

https://twitter.com/BennettLanu

https://twitter.com/sufyanmaan

https://twitter.com/lwall6710

https://twitter.com/DijkhuizenBryan

https://twitter.com/MariaRattray2

https://twitter.com/_helenmuller

https://twitter.com/aldric_chen

https://twitter.com/vidyasury

https://twitter.com/RealPatanella

https://twitter.com/SolutionMan9

Thanks to Illumination YouTube Coordinator for creating this great video.

Invitation to New Writers

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