Editor’s Choice
Hand-Picked Articles #68
Chosen by the technology editor of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications on Medium
Dear Readers and Writers,
Happy Friday! I selected great stories from collection #52 published by ILLUMINATION featuring the great work of contributors of Illumination on Medium. Now, 14,600+ writers submit stories to this publication.
You may find some of the previous collections at the end of this post. I also compile them at this link for easy access. I invest my time in them because each collection includes engaging and informative pieces for our readers.
ILLUMINATION-Curator posted two outstanding story collections from our special publication Illumination-Curated. We believe you find some interesting stories in these collections.
Outstanding Stories — Volume 86
Selected stories from top writers of ILLUMINATION-Curated
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Outstanding Stories — Volume 87
Selected stories from top writers of ILLUMINATION-Curated
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In this post, I have chosen stories from the attached collection created and posted by ILLUMINATION previously.
The 2022 collections by ILLUMINATION are kept in the following link.
You might find the account IDs of new writers who joined our publications on the day when collection #52 was posted.
Curated Articles from ILLUMINATION’s Volume #52
Seven Proven Health Benefits of Alpha-Lipoic Acid Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Why Do We Need Vitamin K2? Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Meet Bill Abbate on Illumination YouTube Channel ILLUMINATION
16 Brilliant Life Lessons I Would Never Have Learned without Narcissistic Abuse Melissa Kalt, MD
If You’re Starting A Side Hustle In 2022, Read This Matt Lillywhite
John’s Stray Friday Thoughts. Dr John Frederick Rose
The Addicts We Love Michael Patanella
Who Needs Sex? Francesco Rizzuto
I Will Never Be At War With The Russians Frank T Bird
What the Brain, Athlete, Basket Case, Princess, and Criminal Taught Us Adam James
8: Not everything gets better with time. Aasha Krishnan
How I Healed Abdominal Bloating and Distension Dr Mehmet Yildiz
12 Fascinating Facts About Jack Ma and the Rise Of Alibaba Alex Philippe
Which Robo-Advisor is best? Amy Fujisaki
Willing to Stop Amy Christie
The Essential Types of Rest we all Need to Consider in a Non-Stop world Ange Dim
How the Most Traumatizing Story I Wrote Improved My Writing Voice Assumpta Nalubowa
What Do Mosquitoes Really Eat? Antonis Iliakis
How Well Do You See? Bill Abbate
Art Brooklyn Muse
Ryan Reynolds Deadpool 3 Bogdan Mtn
As is Above… Brooklyn Muse
6 Figures a DAY For What? Burk
Investing 101: Simplifying Stock Investing Buckets Investing
Shocking Stats About Non-Communicable Diseases Dr Mehmet Yildiz
The One Thing That May Help With The Achievement Scream Carrie Kolar
How to Break the Heart of a Three Year Old Chad Gates
I’m Moving South with my Family Casimiro Designer
The Astonishing Man Who Unexpectedly Changed My Life Forever Chana Harris
Doctors: Are You Making A Profit From Illness Or Are You Reducing the Incidence of It? Christina Vaughn: Nurse, Writer, Creator.
Mental Health Matters — 4 Daily Habits To Boost Happiness Chrissie Marie Massey
New Jersey Mall fight Reminds us that Racism (and colorism?) is Still a Thing. Coke Francis
What To Do When They Spit On Your Dream Dave Richards
Quote Series #2. Winston Churchill about Democracy Denys Opria - Ukrainian
How A Raven Lead Me To England With A Dream To Write Deborah Holmén
Where Do You Stand to Tell Your Story? Don Martin
“The Good (?) Old Days” Thoughts on the Nature of Human Pessimism Dimitrios Fanourios Pischinas
Management Fix Eduardo Espinheira
Old Favorites Elizabeth Emerald
Should Spiritual Gurus Make a Profit from Their Events? Edward John
A Champion’s Philosophy Ephraim Champion
Fighting off Dementia in Old Age Floyd Mori
What Can We Learn from Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child Evelyn Lim
My 10 Book Recommendations for this Black History Month Francesca Gabrielle Bavaro
The Jack Acid Society From the Mountain ~ Stories & Photos of JD Adams
To recompose the pieces of love. A poem Francesco Carrubba
My 1st Month on Medium Partner Program: Earnings, Stats, Lessons gcwrites
Results of My Zoom Meeting With Simily Founders Glenn Stok
Twelve Simple Tricks to Win People to Your Way of Thinking by Dale Carnegie Gereon Wellmann
How To Win Discussion Against Manipulators Gokhan Yalcuk
I’m Tired of Hoping to Go Viral Hakima T A N T R I K A
How to Make A Woman Think of You Growth Lodge
The Shadow of Regret Harry Hogg
The Ghost of Virality’s Past I am not Hermione
The Fundamental Neurosis of Our Time Harry Stefanakis
Look How Far You’ve Come I. Trudie Palmer
Make Your Life More Beautiful Ingerul Pierdut
Give SawToMe a Chance Improv Cowboy
Trees In Winter Iva Hotko
Three Simple Call To Action Templates For Your Content J.R. Heimbigner
The (Most Underrated) Reason Why You’re Successful J.D Rehbein-Wrightstein
Stop Gatekeeping Content Jared Bouchard
This FDA Approved Drug Unlocks 100% of Your Brain Jackson Zheng
Medium Paid Me This Much For 5K Views — I Couldn’t Believe It Jaron Mays
21 Profitable Article Ideas Jeff Herring
Glitter in the Bathtub Jennifer Geer
Your Audience Is Going to Love Your Unoriginal Ideas Jeff Peirish
How I Got My First 6K Views And Earned $54.94 Jim Clyde Monge
9 Income Streams That Will Make You 27K Per Week: How to Create Passive Income John Adam Ledford
The Archangels Talk about ET’s Jodie Helm
Who Do You See When You Look in the Mirror? John Cunningham
The Most Important Self Love Message John R. Miles
Like Pulling Teeth John O’Neill
Why I Don’t Need To Get Married Jonathan Peykar
How to make sure you’re on top of your tasks Julian Cosky
When My Spirit is Free, I… Josie P. Julius
Praying is Something We Do in Our Own Time Katerina Zitta
Five Tips to Slow Down, Lose Fat, and Enjoy Life Dr Mehmet Yildiz
It’s OK to Become Many Different People as You Travel Through Life Karen Lynn
Why Are Women Judged Harshly Compared To Men When It Comes To Cleaning? KL Simmons
Ever Wondered How A Gang Works? Kunaal b
Humans have created a star! Can you believe it? kristin schuhknecht
I Meditated 4 Hours a Day After My Break up | Here’s What Happened Larenzo
The Day I Died Leonard Tillerman
The Perfect Story Larissa Capella
Believing Thoughts Little Monster
What I Learned When We Were Boycotted Because of Our Beliefs Lisa Krikawa
45 Ways A Medium Thread Is Better Than A Twitter Thread Llewellyn (Lew) Daniels
45 Ways A Medium Thread Is Better Than A Twitter Thread
It’s not what you think. I think?
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Are We Searching for Love in the Right Places? Lola Rosario
What Does It Mean to Be Old? Lois Requist
5 Reasons Why Your Personal Objects Are So Important Lucia Landini
Good for You Madison Kelley
Shut Up and Eat Your Grandmother Lucy Socha
3 remedies when your first year of writing starts to suck MarkfromBoston 🌻Ukraine
How to Really Take Messy Action Today and Not Tomorrow to Be Excited Melissa Herb
THE STORY OF A BOY AND HIS MOTORBIKE TOY Marta Kusiak
Body Art and Assumptions Natalie Forrest
69% Of My Story Reads Are For Stories Published This Month Mike Lewis
February Sucks! Nathan White
Carl Jung’s Solution for Anxiety Nick Birthday
Punishment Post Speech — poem NEBOH
Dating and Your Ex Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue, Author on Amazon
Senior Skip Day Isn’t the Same When You’re At Home. Nick Stockton
Understanding Random Forest — Simply Explaining the Algorithm Niklas Lang
Social Touch Is a Powerful Force in Human Development Nicole Wallet
How to Get Rid of Caffeine Nikola Ojdanić, Ph.M.
The Point of No Return Øivind H. Solheim
Would You Invest in a Peptide Moisturizer? Nkeonye Judith Izuka-Aguocha
Mummies with Golden Tongues Otis Adams
Why should I care about climate change? Patrick OConnell
23 Paying Writing Markets — Earn Hundreds to Thousands of Dollars Freelancing From This Writing… Pamela Kazmierczak
We Should Probably Thank the Long Days Too paulmartincurry
Why Movies are the source of our habits Pushpender Yadav
How To Write Irresistible Headlines Prince Verma
The Average Person’s Life Is A Prison Rafay Hiraj
Transition Robert Shaneyfelt
Today Is Your Day, Make It Count Rex Shadeseagle
The modern relevance of ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ Robin Romano
Working for a Nonprofit Isn’t All It’s Cracked up to Be Roxanne Bridgers
Life Quality — a Poem Roxanne Barbour
I made $590+ taking pictures of grocery shopping Shu Hasegawa
I resent the system. Samantha Drobac
This Small Gmail Hack Has Been A Gift to My Brain Steve Fitz
Living Spaces Suma Narayan
Hand-Picked Articles #19 Technology Hits
Why did Ford fail in India? SURYASH KUMAR
Why did Ford fail in India?
Quality wasn’t the problem but failing to read the market was
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We Are Tribes Driven by Ideology Veritas Civis
Sugar Alternatives TruHealth by Kasara
Did You See What Matt Stafford Did? Wes Putnam
BREAKDOWN: 4 Powerful Ways to Calmly Resolve Disagreements VRITANT
The Shadow, Hidden as the Light Wide Writer
9 Life Skills They Don’t Teach In School WrittenMastery
How Reading Scientific Research Can Improve Your Writing: A Beginner’s Guide. Ben Rutt, PhD
Reading the Bible in a Year Has Not Been Conducive to Spiritual Growth Cathy Chapman, PhD
Seeing The Bourgeois Revaluation in Literature Ellen Clardy, PhD #economy
Bolstered Dr. Fatima Imam
Three Tips to Prevent & Treat Obesity Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
Does Optimism Stink as Bad as Pessimism? Amy Sea
My Most Cherished Moment Working on “The West Wing” TV Show David Gerken #life-lessons
Magnesium Is Not Just Another Mineral Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
The True Story Of The Confederacy Moving To Brazil Matt Lillywhite
Squeeze the Juice Out of the Present Stop Daydreaming About the Future Ayodeji Awosika #self-improvement
A Coat of Time Arthur G. Hernandez
Three Tips to Improve Cardiovascular Health Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Real Estate Agents Can Be the Worst Humans in the World Tim Denning
Three Tips to Emotional Regulation Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Why You Should Enjoy Social Media But Not Get Addicted To it Dr. Preeti Singh
Meet Lanu Pitan
Beware the Foot-Licking and Tooth-Pulling Demons from Persia Brian Loo Soon Hua
Establishing Utopian America Qadir Abdus-Sabur, Ph.D.
How I Earned $360 and 6,800 Views From A Single Story Viktor Marchev
Read This When You Want To Make Money Via Investing Richelle Délia, PhD
On Trauma & Addiction: Lessons from a Defensive Iceberg and His Oversized Hat Dr. Cort Dorn-Medeiros
Stop the Screen Wars: How to Make Screen Transitions a Little Less Painful Dr. Cort Dorn-Medeiros
Times Change From Good Old Stiff Neck Ties To modern Gorpcore Dr. Preeti Singh
WHY are you asking me this? Dr Andrea Polzer
Meet Sufyan Maan by ILLUMINATION
Invitation to My New Publication Illumination YouTube Coordinator
Meet Julius Evans by ILLUMINATION
Trending Stories on Publication at the Time
Five Tips to Melt Visceral Fat and Have a Defined Belly Dr Mehmet Yildiz
School Should Teach Us These Eight Simple Things (Yet It Doesn’t) Tim Denning
Fasting Can Change Brain Chemistry Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Six Lifestyle Habits to Skyrocket Fat Loss Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
Reasons Why My (European) Husband and I Will Eventually Leave America Anastasia Frugaard
Three Tips to Eliminate Insulin Resistance and Shrink Waistline Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Here is a video developed by Illumination YouTube Coordinator published on YouTube outlining the key points in this story.
Aiden created a video for this trending story titled Magnesium is just not another mineral by our chief editor Dr Mehmet Yildiz.
How To Become A Top Writer In Three Months on Medium
We can learn a few tips to become a top writer from this video. I will follow guidance provided by Dr Yildiz.
Happy second birthday to ILLUMINATION!
This is my favourite video.
Meet Arlo Hennings, Ph.D. top writer and senior editor
Meet Carla Woody top writer and published author
Meet Bill Abbate top writer and senior editor
Meet Lawson Wallace, top writer and senior editor
Meet Dr Michael Heng, top writer and senior editor
Meet Dr. Preeti Singh top writer and senior editor
Meet Karen Madej, top writer and senior editor
Meet Julius Evans, top writer and senior editor
Meet Shashi Sastry, top writer and published author
Learn about how to write viral articles and blogs
Learn about our quality checklist for writers to improve content.
Learn about the value of YouTube for Medium Writers.
Learn about Illumination Integration Publications on Medium.
You might check other videos on Illuminaton YouTube channel. Please consider subscribing to our channel to be notified when we post new videos.
My Previous Collections
The following links are a few of my featured collections in 2022. I hope you find some gems in them. You will be surprised when you open each collection. As they are too many I only link a few recent ones.
You can access the whole collection from the following link.
Please note that writers of ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR, ILLUMINATION on YouTube, Technology Hits, SYNERGY, and Readers Hope can share links of stories at ILLUMINATION Slack Workspace in the channel called #post-your-own-writing-here. You may also nominate great articles of other writers on the #featured channel.
Helpful References for New Writers
Improving the Quality of Writing Using an Editorial Checklist
The Joy of Selling 1,000+ Books In A Month With Minimal Investment
Copyright Matters: Zero tolerance to plagiarism on ILLUMINATION
Essential Guides for New Writers
Onboarding Pack for New Writers
New writers, please read this pack before submitting your stories.
Publication Resources
Essential publication related stories can be accessed via this collection.
Editors of Our Publications
Writers Bios
Curated Writer Bios
Learn about contributing writers of ILLUMINATION written by their pen
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Publications by Our Writers on Medium
Invitation to Write for ILLUMINATION on YouTube Publication
Invitation to ILLUMINATION YouTube Channel
Newsletter from Illumination Integrated Publications
Illumination Fiction Club
February Updates from Euphoria owned by Dr Mehmet Yildiz
In this collection ILLUMINATION introduced our editor profiles. I hope writers and reader can learn more about the background of our hard-working and supportive editors.
Meet Dr Mehmet Yildiz — Dr Mehmet Yildiz Chief Editor and Owner
ILLUMINATION-Curator compiled these profiles. Collection of Editor Bios: Meet Editors of Illumination Integrated Publications.
Personally Read and Curated Picks: From Illumination’s curated collections 82 and 83 Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Personally Read and Curated Picks: From “Hand-Picked Articles #50” Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
New Writers That You Will Love John Cunningham
Two Incredible Writers that You Should Read Julius Evans
Helpful References for New Writers
Starter Kit for Writers of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications
What I Learned After Publishing 1,010 And Reading 100,000 Stories on Medium
7 Tips for Freelance Writers Dealing with Chronic Stress Effectively
Science-Based Therapeutic Value of Expressive Writing for Mental Health
Improving the Quality of Writing Using an Editorial Checklist
Copyright Matters: Zero tolerance to plagiarism on ILLUMINATION
The Joy of Selling 1,000+ Books In A Month With Minimal Investment
Selected Videos from Illumination YouTube Channel
Please enjoy this valuable and inspiring video about writing viral stories by Illumination YouTube Coordinator
Our quality checklist for writers…
Value of YouTube for Writers
Introduction to our publications
A great video introducing Karen Madej, top writer and senior editor of ILLUMINATION.
An excellent video introducing Dr Michael Heng, top writer, thought leaders, and editor of Illumination Integrated Publications on Medium
Here is a beautiful video introducing Julius Evans, top writer and editor of Illumination Integrated Publications on Medium
A video introducing our supportive inspiring editor Dr. Preeti Singh.
Another great video introducing Shashi Sastry, top writer on Medium and published author — Philosophy of Life Instinct
More videos on Illumination YouTube Channel. We enjoy raising profiles of our writers by creating visibility to their content. Please follow our channel and be part of our exciting journey.
ILLUMINATION on YouTube — New Publication
Illumination YouTube Coordinator has created a new specialist publication for YouTube enthusiasts. All writers are invited. We will announce this new publication shortly. This is sneak preview for writers and readers.
Updates and Highlights from Euphoria Publication on Medium by our chief editor Dr Mehmet Yildiz who encourage writers to create their own publications
Here are the reasons Why Writers Need Personal Publications!
Meet New Writers Joined When This Collection Posted
Let’s welcome these new writers and explore their stories clicking on the profile links below.
Katie Reierson, Vinayak, Ignatius Ubetu, Falidio Romadhoni, Lorenzo Barretta, Cecilia Henry, Angie Thompson, Black River, Andrea Maggetto, Joe Schuberth, Parvinder Jandir, Benjamin Jordan, Damian Shchur, Karen Lynn, Viraj Randev, Dr Ash, Otutu Chidinma Janefrances, Aashish Bhatnagar, Iván Melicoff Abril, Linda Locke, Nikunj Savaliya, 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐆𝐈.
New writers need to check the onboarding pack before submitting stories to our publications. Quality and style of your stories are important for our readers.
Invitation to Potential Writers
To join our vibrant publications, please send a request via this link. We will help you gain visibility and succeed as a writer on Medium. If you are new to Medium, you can join via this link. Readers can read thousands of stories and writers can monetize self-published content.
Social Media Connection
Dr Mehmet Yildiz encouraged editors to join Twitter to amplify articles and poems published in our publications via Twitter and bring more readers to our publications. Here is an interesting post by Illumination YouTube Coordinator reflecting his recent experience on Twitter.
If you have a Twitter account, you might follow our editors and tag them so that we can share your posts. Since editors of Illumination are busy with a heavy publishing workload, I volunteered to compile social media links in a post. Hopefully, it will be ready soon. If you are interested in being listed in my collection, please drop your Twitter handle in the comment section of this post.
In the meantime, you might connect with these lead editors.
If you would like to join our publications as a contributor, please send a request via this link. We will amplify your stories in various ways.
Invitation to Potential Writers
To join Illumination Integration publications, please send a request via this link. We will help you gain visibility and succeed as a top writer on Medium. Please point out the publication name with your Medium account ID in the request. If you are new to Medium, you can join via this link. Readers can read thousands of stories and writers may monetize self-published content. As our chief editor, Dr Mehmet Yildiz says “opportunities are endless on this platform”. I agree with his point.
