Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION
Embracing Uncertainty
2,165 creative ILLUMINATION writers are serving 19,170 readers
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Welcome to another great day on ILLUMINATION
It was another joyful and exciting day, thanks to the creative works of our writers. The quantity and quality of the stories are gradually increasing.
I read many engaging and thought-provoking stories today.
We have new writers bringing new ideas and unconventional styles. I adore these unique and novel approaches. It is inspiring to see writers and poets embracing uncertainty and exploring new styles in both poetry and prose.
As Carl Rogers articulates “The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it”.
I am glad the editor introductions serve the purpose.
Many thanks for the encouraging comments left on this story. I am pleased that the message in this story helped several affected writers to make the optimal decision for their publishing options.
I want to propose a new writing challenge to a new goal.
New Writing Challenge
I plan to create a new theme-based article collection to give a great reading experience to our followers. Some readers want to explore stories based on classified themes.
The purpose of this collection is to categorize stories based on keywords. For example, the first concept I propose is writing an article about “jealousy”.
Based on your experience and background, you can create a story with an attractive title of your choice as long as you use the term “jealousy” is identifiable in your title or subtitle. You can choose relevant tags.
I believe you can create unique stories by looking at the term from your angle.
One of the objectives of this new challenge is to increase the chance of curation. Therefore, we need to consider some preparation work.
The articles in this challenge must adhere to Medium curation guidelines.
You may consider your stories to get peer-reviewed by sharing your draft with one of your fans. If you don’t have fans yet, you can request reviewers in our Slack channel.
You can gain ideas from the curated articles.
For example, you can check the presentation and styles of curated articles. One way of finding curated articles is to check the Medium topics.
You can also review the stories curated from our publication writers.
I will be providing a new term to prompt you each day and will announce it in our Slack channel as well. Please remember tagging me so that I can be notified about your story and add it to our collection.
I will regularly distribute this collection to our subscribers and feature it on our front page.
If you need clarification, you may leave a comment on this story and I will respond.
What did ILLUMINATION writers create today?
Here is a bundle of stories that I was able to add to our distribution list today. Thank you for adding comments to create visibility to your great stories. You deserve recognition.
One of the purposes of this daily distribution is to access to our stories easily. You can read and share them easily. You can follow the writers.
I recommend enjoying as many stories as possible from this list. If your story is not included, please leave a comment by linking your story so that readers get a chance to read your stories.
You can find our previous distribution lists from the attached story.
You can check our publication page for more stories updated regularly.
Update on previous writing challenge
Many writers participated in two writing challenges. You can find the activity details from these links: Challenge 1 and Challenge 2.
I compiled submitted stories as part of this challenge in a single story for easy access. There are a few new submissions today. We will be creating a newsletter and share your self assess stories tomorrow. Our readers would love these stories.
Many thanks for the submissions related to both challenges. I look forward to the remaining writers to participate and enjoy the benefits of this writing challenge. Please also consider the challenge for testimonials as mentioned in this bulletin.
New writers who joined ILLUMINATION today
31 new writers joined our publication today. We have 2,165 writers supporting ILLUMINATION and serving our 19,268 readers. A warm welcome to our new writers who joined our great team today: Vaishnavi Paliwal, Channing Lee, Helen Hazelmare, Lester Golden, Michael Lubinski, Marc Palumbo, Karen DeGroot Carter, Ritarshi Banerjee, Ozden Bennett, pooja junnuri, Shaurya Gulati, Ashley Chow, Sadiq Rza, Lizzy Wang, Tori Champine, Rachel Yerks, Natalie Alnic, Aparajita Pk, Idan Solon, Daniella Cavenagh, Ph.D., Manasi, Paula Perea, Akshad Singi, Joe Loper, Ankit Gupta, Abdul Qadeer, Abi Anday, Penny Zhou, Sayeed Ibrahim Ahmed, Sunha Paul Kim, Ehsan Nazim,
To ensure your stories are published on a timely basis, please provide required credits to the photos and extracted information from other sources. This is the most common issue delaying some stories to be published. If you turn off your private messages we have no other mechanism to reach out to you. If your article is not published within 24 hours please contact me from this link.
There are several inquiries from new writers who want to know how to add stories to publication. Please see the attached story providing step by step guidance on how to add stories to publication by Timothy Key.
ILLUMINATION Slack Channel
We created a writer collaboration platform using Slack. We have 419 members on Slack. I added several writers to our Slack channel today. Thank you for the inquires and willingness to join our collaboration 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 receive 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.
Please also check our process and procedures for further details on our publication.
New Writer Introductions
We received two writer bios today.
Meet our writer Jayanti Bhasker
Meet our writer Lauren Johnson Gonzales
Featured Writer Bios Today
We featured three writer bio stories today. New writers can meet them.
Livia Dabs
Daniella Mini
Selma
250+ 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 19,000+ readers.
Please see the attached bio document as an example for creating your bios. Our readers are interested in our writers. If your bio is missing from this list, please leave a comment with your your story link.
Featured Interview Stories on Publication Page
We will be featuring one writer interview story each day. Today, we featured inspiring interviews that I conducted with:
Jill Ebstein
Ming Qian
Desiree Driesenaar
I have been interviewing our writers to feature their profile and great stories. I added a few more interview stories today. You can read the interviews from the attached story. If you are a writer on ILLUMINATION and would like to be interviewed, please send a request via this link with title of “Interview Request”.
Featured Stories Today
We featured 15 fantastic stories from our creative writers today. These stories will be placed on the front page for 24 hours for easy access.
Joshua Idegbere
Joseph Graziano
Riku Arikiri
ColeTretheway
Lisa Gastaldo
Tonya S. Ware
Ann K Frailey
Brett Chrest
Kristina Segarra
Maïa Belart
Rasheed Hooda
John Cousins
Tree Langdon ♾️
aimeepalooza
Casi Mclean
Stories Distributed from ILLUMINATION to Medium Topics
14 great stories were distributed to multiple topics on Medium today. I believe there will be more soon. I share them in my next bulletin. Congratulations to these great writers.
A story by Earnest Painter was distributed to #creativity #writing.
A story by Brian Feutz was distributed to #race #equality.
A story by Jennifer Geer was distributed to #family #parenting.
A story by Erin King was distributed to #productivity #food.
A story by Kristin Wilson was distributed to #self.
A story by Gayle Kurtzer-Meyers was distributed to #money #business #startups
A story by Roxanna Azimy was distributed to #psychology #mental health.
A story by Ronald Franklin was distributed to #race #equality.
A story by Viktor Marchev was distributed to #mindfulness #lifestyle.
What’s The Truth Behind The “OM”
“OM” is a very simple sound with a very complex meaning.
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A story by Jan M Flynn was distributed to #self.
A story by Kaz Matsune was distributed to #food.
A story by John Teehan was distributed to #cybersecurity.
A stry by Serena Steinfeld was distributed to #self #education #health #mental health.
A poem by Tree Langdon ♾️ was distributed to #poetry.
As ILLUMINATION hosts an impressive number of high-quality stories distributed to the topics from our creative writers, I compiled those stories. I aim to create awareness for the high-quality stories so that our new writers can leverage these excellent stories, model the styles so that they can improve their stories for increasing chance of curation by Medium curators. You can find the complete list from the attached story. I update it regularly.
Content Quality Focus
We strive for excellence. We make every effort to increase the quality of our 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. The curation rate increased.
We need to be proactive and maintain quality.
New writers: please ensure that you check your stories for typos, spelling, and grammar errors before submitting them to the publication. Our readers deserve high quality stories.
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. There may be other applications that you can use to improve readability of your stories
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 2000+ 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.
