Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION
Greatness & Abundance
2000+ ILLUMINATION writers are serving 18,600+ readers!

The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking. — Alan Cohen
Choose joyful abundance in your heart and be unbounded, free, and relaxed. Be relentless with your choice and you’ll make your mark. — Amy Leigh Mercree
Welcome to another joyful day on ILLUMINATION
In my bulletin yesterday, I briefly touched on the importance of appreciation and recognition for the motivation of writers by their peers. Some writers have already submitted stories on this joyful topic. If you haven’t seen the new writing challenge, please check my bulletin from yesterday. I will compile the submitted testimonials soon and share them as part of our distribution process. Our writers are valuable. Thy need appreciation and recognition.
Today, I want to touch on abundance mentality as part of our diversity and inclusiveness values. As mentioned in my distribution earlier today, we are proud of our writers coming from diverse backgrounds, bringing richness to our publication. We believe in freedom of information and expression hence do not censor content as long as they adhere to Medium policies.
I firmly believe that each writer and each story is unique. ILLUMINATION offers a wide range of options for our valued readers. It is up to our readers to choose what they want to read and engage. By leveraging our diversity and inclusion, we offer an abundance of options, greatness, and joy to our readers. The rest is details.
Update on 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. Our readers 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. We need to collaborate.
This activity is an excellent opportunity to meet new writers and develop your relationship with them. This activity can increase the number of your followers and fans. The more fans you have, the more visible and readable your articles can be. Let’s keep our vitality and create synergy.
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. As of publication team, we do our best, but it must be a collective effort to bring more traffic to Medium which a collaborative content development environment. The bottom line is; the more traffic Medium attracts the more visibility our stories get. Every Medium writer should be aware of this undeniable fact. ILLUMINATION is making the best effort to contribute to this desirable requirement by giving a wide variety of attractive options to our potential readers.
To this end, it will be fantastic for each writer to take responsibility to create visibility for his or her own story. Please remember tweeting the stories you read; share them in your social media connections. We grow with support, synergy, and collaboration. Let’s wear our entrepreneurial hats and replace scarcity with abundance!
You can find our previous distribution list from the attached story.
Let’s check our publication page for more stories. Many more stories can be found from our publication page.
New writers who joined ILLUMINATION today
22 new writers joined our publication today. We have 2064 writers supporting ILLUMINATION and serving our 18,600+ readers. A warm welcome to our new writers who joined our great team today: Susan Baker Tx, (Lankan) Shady, Melissa Coffey, Aeishwarya Baviskar, Chris Carbin, Zachary Kerman, Delanie, Namrata Mishra, Jonathan Bell, Jalyn Folston, Sappho Fortis, Craige Hardel, Samuel Cracia, Pretheesh Presannan, David Pereira, Jessica Lim, Franko French, Harmeet Singh, Yeva Volkova, Arundhati Vijay Shinde, Brian Castleforte, Elizabeth Evans
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.
I received 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 392 members. 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 have 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.
Featured Writer Bios Today
We featured three writer bio stories today. New writers can meet them.
Rebecca Sealfon
Martine Weber
Isabela Vasiliu
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 18,600+ 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:
Terry Mansfield
Chris Hedges
Paroma Sen
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.
Erin King
Adam Tabriz, MD
Sylvia Love Johnson
Joe Luca
Lanu Pitan
P.G. Barnett
Bill Abbate
Mark Ellis
Debasish Burman
Dr.Gulnazmirza
Ovkourbali
Mike Arnold
Tonia Nem
Ming Qian
Walter Rhein
Stories Distributed from ILLUMINATION to Medium Topics
So far seven great stories were distributed to Medium topics today. I believe there will be more soon. I share them in my next bulletin.
A story by @Marina T Alamanou PhD was distributed to #health #food #lifestyle.
A story by Helen Cassidy Page was distributed to #humor #self.
A story by Alessandro Crimi was distributed to #neuroscience #health.
A story by Gayle Kurtzer-Meyers #politics #justice #equality.
A story by Ryan Frawley was distributed to #self.
A story by Kim Funk was distributed to #creativity #music #writing.
A story by Kim McKinney was distributed to #relationships #family.
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.

