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Stories selected from 3,163 writers followed by 27,379 readers
If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful. — Ramana Maharshi
Dear Readers and Writers,
Our Friday edition is full of surprises.
We are pleased to host stories of 3,163 creative writers providing fascinating content and giving us many options over 70 interesting topics. Each writer contributes to our publication and adds value to our readers.
I tried to use maximum size to include many options for our readers, but this is only the tip of the iceberg, so please check our publication for more exciting stories in front-page and under seven tabs. The best way of using this list is to use the keyword search in your PC you can use Control F key to search.
You can also access the previously featured stories from a single story. You can find over 20,000 stories from this link. This can be an ideal resource for aspiring writers who want to explore new topics and writing prompts.
Many readers made ILLUMINATION as their first page as they find quality content about their interest areas. We have many top writers, and even some Medium stars joined and are contributing to our publication, which transformed into an inspiration and knowledge source for our readers.
As editors, one of our challenges is dealing with photos in the stories. We have a firm policy to support Medium rules, especially for compliance with copyrights. We mandate all photos captioned so that copyright issues are addressed. To this end, one of our editors created a story to articulate the reasons.
More writers introduced their publications today. You can find excellent publications from the attached story. I highly recommend to check these publications and follow them. Some of these publications are specialized, so they may appeal to your writing and reading goals. We are proud of our writers who share their stories in multiple publications. All writers are invited to introduce their publication.
We have many curated storied distributed to multiple topics.
CURATED STORIES DISTRIBUTED TO TOPICS TODAY
Adam Tabriz, MD #technology #artificial intelligence
Ugur Akinci #self #mental health
Charlotte Ivan #self #mental health
A.M. Cal #film
Brandon Sarmiento #creativity #writing #productivity
Utpal Kumar #technology #programming
Thomas Dylan Daniel #cryptocurrency
Kaz Matsune #food
Jacquelyn Lynn #writing
Jessica Lynn #self #sports
Amber Cezanne #freelancing #writing
Rebecca Stevens Alder #culture #relationships #race #women
Rosemary Payne #family #parenting
Greg Longoria #self
Christopher D. Connors #self
Mark Watney #self #poetry
Deborah Barchi #poetry
Caitlin Ju #poetry
Paroma Sen #poetry
Diane Twineheart #poetry
Julian Outram #poetry
WELCOME TO NEW WRITERS
A warm welcome to 26 new writers who joined us today. We have now 3,163 writers supporting our publication. ILLUMINATION is now a significant publication serving 27,379 readers on Medium.
Jeanette C. Espinoza, Emanuele Manco, Sharon James, Sinéad Bond, Vishwesh Bharadiya, Claire Mcgregor, Kate Maria Pennell, Geetika Guleria, Abby crassia, Tarishi Singh, Gabrielle Beth, Nick Groeneveld, Bingz Huang, BlogZ, Alan Lew, Urshel Lee Metcalf, Anthony Fireman, Mahyar M. Rostami, Jennifer Mittler-Lee, Crystal Jackson, Nikita Buslov, Loudt Darrow, Denise G, Thomas Groenvold, Nicole Jiang, Anne Shark, Olivia Henry,
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