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Featured Stories Issue #48
Selected stories from 9,400 writers supporting 93,500+ readers on ILLUMINATION

Dear readers,
We are delighted to provide you with fresh stories every day.
We compiled engaging, informative, and interesting stories from our growing collection today,
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Our previous digests are easily accessible from this collection.
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All writers are invited to join a writing challenge as proposed by Dr Mehmet Yildiz. These stories provide an opportunity for writers and readers to cross-pollinate.
How to grow and become a top writer on Medium in three months: 100 Day Challenge For New Writers
Please enjoy our interesting stories.
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Introducing New Writers
Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Introducing an engaging book by prolific author Maria Rattray
Thewriteyard
Your Ultimate Guide to No Touch Society
Larry G. Maguire
Machiavelli on How To Play The Power Game
Megan Holstein
How to Look Beautiful Without Wearing Makeup
Elvie
About Me
Fareeha Arshad
How White Are White Lies
Anna
What I Learned After I Almost Died in Hawaii and How It Changed Me
Veronika Kaufmann
A Girl from Vienna
Michael Hollifield
I Can’t See the Yard for the Weeds
Darryl Brooks
Kids Today Will Never Comprehend the Hardships We Suffered
Neha Sandhir S
Abdullah Nadeem
How To Balance Enthusiasm With Discipline
Bill Abbate
How Long Will Your Words Last and Will They Matter to Anyone Else?
Asmita Karanje
Winners Don’t Quit Is A Big Lie — They Do.
Ben Ho
Rain to Renew Our Soul
Anthony Jackson
It Only Takes You 10 Minutes
Laurie Perez
Alchemy of the Emperor
Lucienne
One Step of the Dark
Jacquelyn Lynn
My Medium Weekly Roundup
Matthew Prince
The Lesson From the Prisoner’s Dilemma Is Cooperation and Truthfulness
Nora
Joseph Lieungh
A Life of One’s Own Design
Jennifer Dunne
5 Tips to Have a More Self-Confident Attitude
Lawson Wallace
What Bothers me as a Writer
Stuart Englander
Day Tripping: April 18
Alfonso Guerrero
Building a Business, Part 1: Why I Decided To Leave Finance and Start a Coffee Business
Tammy Richards
Patrick M. Ohana
Ada LLoyd
Top 3 Mindful Choices for Self Improvement Now
Shawn Ingram
Treehouse
Enne Baker
Twitch
Nishith Goyal
A Dialogue That Drew Me Close to the Journaling Habit
Paola Perez
Why Have We Stopped Caring For Other Fellow Humans?
Mia Verita
Water Lily
Rose Blog
What makes you think and feel better?
Ms Fischer
The Chris Hogan Controversy
Andrew Lalchan
Ingenuity Is Ready To Take Off On Mars
Charles Amemiya
Frikis: The Desperate Cubans Who Purposely Injected Themselves with HIV
Marcus
We are only as sick as our secrets.
Aldric Chen
YouTube Ads Are Getting Seriously Boring.
Calvin Lassiter
The Twittle Express
Aparna Das Sadhukhan
Don’t Stop To Smell The Roses
Don’t Stop To Smell The Roses
Have you noticed how roses have lost their evocative scent?
medium.com
Rufat Mammadov
Are You Living Your Own “Renaissance”?
Keara Lou
I Gave Up Alcohol For Lent And Didn’t Know It.
Katie Jgln
5 Lessons Learned from Writing for 10+ Publications Last Month
Jade M.
How Building Relationships Almost Ended My Writing Career
Fahim Chughtai
How Humans Face The loss-5 Stages Of Grief Theory
Ash K
“Thank You For What You Do”
Deepak Sethi
Life Lessons learned by a Movie Star.
Brian Dickens Barrabee
That’s Not My Wife, Is It
Karen Madej
The Proust Questionnaire Answered by Karen Madej
Ilham Esse
How to Make the Law of Attraction Work for You
How to Make the Law of Attraction Work for You
The universe checked out. It’s all on you.
medium.com
Emily Ann
The Grooming of Young Girls Often Goes Unnoticed
Chevanne Scordinsky
King Me
Sapna M
After 7 months of writing on Medium: Here’s the Good, the Bad and the Ugly!
Shawn Ingram
Someone is Living in My Mirror
Monolith
Ann Venkataraman
Do You Suffer from Writer’s Tsundoku?
Alexandra Raphael
Like a Good Canadian, I Rolled Up My Sleeve and Didn’t Ask Questions
Shell St. James
Eutierria, Death, and the Red Kayak
Cat Stravino
Meeting Bears in the Boundary Waters
ABINAS JAGERNAUTH
How I Became Fanatical About Golf
Riri Rites
Ask These 12 Questions to Learn About a Person
Shiraz Zafar Hussain
Don’t waste Time watching Ted Talks
Angelina Der Arakelian
How I Reduced My Overthinking
JGS
Questions to My Soul
Nia Simone McLeod
The Ingredients of Good Hair
Brooke Ramey Nelson
In Re: Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo, et al.
Nora
Grant Faulkner’s Method for Writing 50,000 words Per Month
ProfManagement
The Perfect Harmony Between Ears: Podcasts in Higher Education
Alexander M. Combstrong
The Maverick Files
My Alcohol Problem During My 21-Day Quarantine
Melanie J.
My Love Song
Fahri Karakas
Review of “Love and Monsters” on Netflix
Ananya Misra
Waiting For Love
M.X. Christopher
Have You Heard of RapChat?
Humaira Iqbal
Nostalgia
Veronika Kaufmann
Movie Love: Measuring the World
Noah Nelson
I’m Grateful For Medium Every Day
Bill Abbate
How to View Your Close Relationships to Better Understand Yourself
Gippolito Ndp
Why words really do matter if you’re a king or wannabe king
Trapper Sherwood
Expert Advice: Keeping Pets Safe While Away on Vacation
Prosite benjamin
WHAT MAKES A MAN REALLY STRONG THAT WOMEN DON’T KNOW.
Mark Campbell
Why Medium Wants To Ban Your Story From Google
Shawn Jr
The Paradox of self
Prasanniya
Ben Kageyama
What Is a Man Without His Cock?
gae polisner
Villanelle 3*
Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)
Introvert Travels
Paul Douglas
Struggle On — A Poem
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