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on Linkedin and decided to investigate). The rest is history as they say.</p><p id="e989">Over the past year, whilst the world and yours truly have been over busy dying on our feet, I have managed to successfully pursue a writing career and I have achieved a great deal. However, more satisfying than that is the fact that Illumination has grown to five very successful publications with close to 100,000 readers, 8,500 writers and almost 70 editors spread all around the world. And the wonderful news is that I have managed to be a part of this awesome success story. And the icing on the cake is that my health problems have been brought under control or are in remission.</p><p id="2e24">However, this is not so much about me or Illumination, it is about the people who have helped Illumination to become the great success that it is. We have been blessed with some really quite amazing writers, writers who have set out on the same journey as myself and I have blown me away with their writing abilities.</p><p id="bb0f">I have no doubt that all of these writers have had their very own life problems to deal with and for some those problems are ongoing. Yet these people have all remained constant in their dedication to writing for Illumination.</p><p id="85b8">Over the course of the year, as an Illumination editor, I have highlighted a small selection of writers who impressed me beyond mere words. These are people who have established themselves not only as great writers, dedicated to the art of writing, but also as people with very interesting and inspiring stories of their own journey through life and right here on Illumination. Just click away to your heart's content and Enjoy.</p><p id="8061"><a href="undefined">Dr Mehmet Yildiz</a> <a href="undefined">Esther George</a> <a href="undefined">Stuart Englander</a> <a href="undefined">Holly Kellums</a> <a href="undefined">Dew Langrial</a></p><div id="1cda" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-pursuit-of-excellence-in-writing-636c300e44e4"> <div> <div> <h2>The Pursuit Of Excellence In Writing</h2> <div><h3>How to extract an elephants tooth, swallow a gnat and discover pure gold.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*3UmmsMGM52D0wIXzw0RaMA.jpeg)"></div>

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Still alive and well, and inspirationally writing all about it.

Illustration by Mohamed Hassan on Pixabay

About a year ago today this publication called Illumination did not exist. Donald Trump had just been acquitted at the end of his first impeachment and the Japanese Olympics were postponed due to the news of a global pandemic called Covid 19. These two topics were to dominate the news for the rest of the year.

Sadly, to date, over two and a half million people have died as a result of Covid 19, and Donald Trump has escaped yet another impeachment which was the result of inciting an insurrection. All of that being said, Trump did lose the Presidency and a global programme of Covid vaccination is well underway. Every cloud has a silver lining one way or another.

Zooming in on another event which was to have global ramifications of a sort, it was about a year ago that, somewhere in the antipodes, a very visionary person, Dr Mehmet Yildiz, was quietly setting about the launch a new publication on Medium. Meanwhile, in a sunny little corner of Europe.....

In March 2020, I was living and working in the south of Spain and knocking at death's door, without fully realising it, a silent heart attack and a mini stroke, to name but two of my life threatening illnesses. These were quite possibly caused by sleep apnea. Tests revealed that during one hour of sleep I stopped breathing 48 times! That is almost once every minute. Shock and horror just about covers my reaction to this appalling news.

The full extent of my health issues would only become clear after I moved to Japan to get the correct treatment I was being denied in Spain. It turned out that I also had PMR and GCA. Try to imagine what it must feel like to be hit by a forty ton truck and you'll get the idea of how painful those two conditions are. I have to say that I only mention these things to put them into some sort of context and for no other reason.

Once installed in Japan, not too far from Tokyo, I set about trying to deal with my health problems and at the same time I began to look for online work possibilities. By chance I came across Medium (I saw it mentioned on Linkedin and decided to investigate). The rest is history as they say.

Over the past year, whilst the world and yours truly have been over busy dying on our feet, I have managed to successfully pursue a writing career and I have achieved a great deal. However, more satisfying than that is the fact that Illumination has grown to five very successful publications with close to 100,000 readers, 8,500 writers and almost 70 editors spread all around the world. And the wonderful news is that I have managed to be a part of this awesome success story. And the icing on the cake is that my health problems have been brought under control or are in remission.

However, this is not so much about me or Illumination, it is about the people who have helped Illumination to become the great success that it is. We have been blessed with some really quite amazing writers, writers who have set out on the same journey as myself and I have blown me away with their writing abilities.

I have no doubt that all of these writers have had their very own life problems to deal with and for some those problems are ongoing. Yet these people have all remained constant in their dedication to writing for Illumination.

Over the course of the year, as an Illumination editor, I have highlighted a small selection of writers who impressed me beyond mere words. These are people who have established themselves not only as great writers, dedicated to the art of writing, but also as people with very interesting and inspiring stories of their own journey through life and right here on Illumination. Just click away to your heart's content and Enjoy.