ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications

Welcome New Writers

Onboarding pack for new contributors joining ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR, ILLUMINATION Book chapters, SYNERGY, Technology Hits

Dear new contributors,

Thank you for your inquiries.

You have joined a significant group of publications on Medium. We are pleased to meet you. On your request, we added your Medium account to our relevant publications. You are now contributors of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications on Medium. We welcome you in our exciting journey. We serve hundreds of top writers and thousands of experienced storytellers.

What we mean by “integrated” is that you can easily re-purpose your content among our publications. You can also network and collaborate with writers of our publications using our extended services such as Slack.

From management perspective, we run these publications using our central resources mainly volunteer editors to provide excellent service to our readers.

The purpose of this post is to notify new contributors who have joined our publications ILLUMINATION, ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION Book chapters, Technology Hits, SYNERGY, and ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR and get you started with essential information.

You are now ready to publish your stories and network with our large writing and reading community on Medium. Please note that our publications operate on Medium hence you need to comply with the platform rules and policies.

We have experienced ongoing glitches on publications. If your account is not added to the requested publications, please leave a comment on this article or contact us on our Slack to add you again. There is a channel called #writerstobeadded on Slack. You can leave a message with your Medium ID in the channel.

All contributors must follow Medium rules to remain writers in our publications. Breaching of publication rules like committing plagiarism causes accounts to be removed from our publications. And Medium suspend accounts of plagiarisers.

We updated our guidelines. Please read this guidelines before submitting your stories. There are instructions for different levels of writers.

Dealing with photos waste a lot of time for our voluteer editors. To address the issue, we introduced a policy for handling photos. All requirements are clearly pointed out in this policy. Please review this policy before submitting your stories. Following copyright rules including for photos are essential for all contributors.

To reiterate, please note that we don’t accept plagiarized content and stories with copyrighted photos unless you own the rights. Consequences are severe. Simply put, we remove you from our publications. You can also face penalty from Medium and legal entities.

ILLUMINATION Integrated publications are diverse and inclusive covering almost all topics across several disciplines. 9,900+ writers contribute to these publications now.

ILLUMINATION is currently among the top 50 most followed publications on Medium, out of 17,250 publications. 96,000+ Medium members follow ILLUMINATION now. Our curated collection, ILLUMINATION-Curated is now followed by 32,000+ readers.

A combination of our six publications now serve 137,000+ readers on Medium.

We announced our new roadmap for ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications.

Please provide your feedback on this story.

100 Day Writing Challange

We created a new 100 day writing challenge to jumpstart new contributors like you. We highly recommend all writers to participate in this challenge to grow on Medium. You can find necessary guidance in this article.

In addition we created a new challenge to increase your followers, views, and reading times. Participating in this challenge can take your writing career to the next level.We designed this challenge for prolific writers and those who want to increase their followers.

All challenges are optional to join. Please don’t feel obliged to participate. But we highly recommend.

1,000 Short Posts in 100 Days

To assist with this challenge, please find guidance on how to and why to use short-form stories in the attached story.

Short-Form Stories Not For Income But For Visibility. Think Of Them As A Tripwire

Writing Prompt

There is a popular writing prompt to allow you introduce yourself and links to your stories. You can share you thoughts and feelings as a writer. This is an excellent opportunity for you to connect with a broader reading audience.

How to communicate and collaborate with members of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications

We created a large virtual platform bringing our members to one space. Communication on Medium is limited. Therefore, we created this extended service allowing collaboration among our contributors.

Dr Mehmet Yildiz will send you an invitation to our Slack workspace. The invitation will be in your email inbox. It is optional to join Slack. However, we recommend you to take this significant opportunity.

Our Slack workspace offers a free networking and collaboration service to our contributing writers. In addition, you can easily access editors and share your concerns when your stories have publishing problems.

Networking on Slack will help you build sustainable and meaningful relationships with fellow writers and editors. Many new writers enjoy the experience.

This virtual workspace is our primary communication and collaboration platform. We have 7,500+ members in Slack. You can learn about Slack in this story.

Writing for publications

For ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION-Curated, you can write about many topics as long as your stories meet Medium rules and policies. We cover over 100 topics. Our readers love the variety and fresh stories every day.

Medium currently supports only 30 editors per publication. We have 66 editors however not all of them have access to ILLUMINATION due to the constraints imposed by Medium.

To cover our large workload, we created a mirror version of ILLUMINATION and allocated new editors to support the workload. You can submit your additional stories to this new publication. Mirror serves as a backup for ILLUMINATION and hosts excessive stories created by our prolific writers.

Please see details in this story about ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR.

For new writers, we recommend submitting a maximum of three articles to ILLUMINATION or ILLUMINATION-Curated per day. The rest of your stories can be submitted to ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR.

We created the mirror version for our prolific writers who submit multiple stories in a day. Medium allows up to 15 stories per writer a day.

We provided you with access to both publications in case you want to submit multiple stories a day.

Your contributions are important to our readers. The diversity and variety you bring delight our valued readers. Our discerning readers use ILLUMINATION ILLUMINATION-Curated. SYNERGY, Technology Hits, and ILLUMINATION Books Chapters as their front pages.

These publications are now followed by a large group of readers registered to Medium. We also have many readers from external sources.

ILLUMINATION is the most popular one but we have also established new publications serving different audiences. The publications you joined will show in your list.

When you are editing your story and click on the three dots you will see them listed. You need to choose relevant publication you aim to send your story. Writers have the flexibility to share their stories among our publications to gain maximum visibility and readability.

Here is a brief introduction on our new publications

Technology Hits

We have a new publication to extend our services and reach our broader audience interested in technology.

Technology Hits serves a specific audience interested in technology matters.

Here is the invitation to Technology Hits.

Featured stories on Technology Hits by Editor of Technology Hits

SYNERGY

SYNERGY is a strategic initiative to empower writers and create synergy with collaboration. This new publication has the same values as ILLUMINATION. But it is a specialized publication.

ILLUMINATION is a broad publication covering hundreds of topics, whereas SYNERGY is dedicated to freelance writers, editors, and bloggers.

SYNERGY serves specific requirements of writers. The purpose of SYNERGY is to bring together Medium writers, editors, and bloggers who also publish on other platforms such as Vocal Media, NewsBreak, Hub Pages, Patreon, Substack, and other freelancing platforms.

SYNERGY has remarkable contributors including experienced and accomplished writers. Many articles have already been curated by Medium. The curation success rate for SYNERGY is very high because a majority of the writers have extensive experience in writing.

SYNERGY is powered by ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION-Curated.

Details are in this story.

You may check some recent articles from SYNERGY.

ILLUMINATION Book Chapters

We designed this publication to serve published and indie authors and prepare our aspiring authors to get published.

This unique publication has three main goals.

1 — Published authors can gain new readers via their repurposed book chapters. They can also earn income from their published content on Medium.

2 — Published authors can gain new followers and beta readers who can provide feedback for their new manuscripts.

3 — Aspiring writers can gain by creating manuscripts derived from their published stories. They can transfer them into the ILLUMINATION Book Chapters, obtain reader reviews, and publish them as books later.

How Can Published Authors Create Visibility?

Latest editorial bulletin for ILLUMINATION Book Chapters

Index of Published Book Chapters

Onboarding pack

Please check your account for the publications you applied to. If you don’t see the publication in your Medium profile, please leave a comment on this post so that we can add your account again. When you need help, you can contact Dr Mehmet Yildiz on Slack directly. He can help or transfer your queries to relevant editors and moderators.

Our goal is to help you become a successful writer in Medium.

You joined a significant group of publications making a great impact on Medium. ILLUMINATION and its sister publications are growing rapidly and supporting 9,900+contributing writers.

We are happy to support different levels of writers including aspiring, experienced, accomplished, and influential writers. All contributors play a significant role in this ecosystem.

Our goal is to cross-pollinate all types of writers to get the best out of this venture. Our contributors come from different professional backgrounds, skill levels, and writing goals. This unique combination of writers sets an attractive value proposition to our readers because they enjoy many stories covering multiple topics.

Our publications operate with an abundance mentality. We don’t compete with other publications, instead, we see them as collaborators.

We don’t put any limitations on our contributing writers. As a contributor to our publications, you are not exclusive to us. You can publish in other publications and remove your submissions. You can leave our publications any time. Everything we recommend is invitation, not obligation. We see other publications as our collaborators, not competitors. Even better, we recommend you create your own publications too. We can help you get started. If you have a publication now, we can help you promote it.

We hope you will enjoy excellent services of our integrated publications.

Let’s meet and connect with new writers joining our publications today.

Once again, if you applied and your name is not in the following lists, please leave a comment on this story, or contact us on Slack. You will receive an invitation to Slack shortly. Please don’t assume that we ignore you. We welcome all ethical writers and help them succeed.

Welcome new writers joined ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR:

Zane Fleming, Paula A., A.M. Radulescu, Kaye Dems, Bijeta, Coffee Tea Investment, Melyssa Corrigan, Terri-Sue Hill, Belle du Journey, Thiru Anand, Talia Sch, Ilona Gawin Goanos, Allen R Smith, Solien Ku, Fizaameen, Danna Z, Margaret Sitawa, Sameer Bairwa, Ifra Ali, Diana Dee, Maria Kalomiris, Nitheesh Velayan, Ariel Miranda, Fredrik Carleson, Marisa Martínez, Corrie Alexander, Wide Writer, Jorge Robert, Marcelo Cedeno, Stefan Bernhard, Rebecca Pendleton, Subarna Khorshed, Wanda Thibodeaux, CodeHunk, Chachee Valentine, Louie J. Solo, Jennifer Cross, Rob Stein, Josephine Crispin, Rob Stein, Nyasha M, Benjamin Bratz, Joe the Bartender, Zeph McGee, Kaila Charice, Danielle LoPresti, Andy Demidov, Zaid, Zehn Ninos, App Fisher, Geetanjalithakur, Susie Kearley, Susie Kearley, Saman Herath, Jillian Spiridon, Riaz Laskar, Allison Murray, Rob Stein, sebastian tasmanian, Mohit Shangari, Venus Rebel, Akshaya, Danielle LoPresti, Chandra Vijay Singh (C V SINGH), vivek keshore, Helen Vechurko, Birgit Pohl, Mia Thompson, DeboraChifunda, Joshua Blake, Landen Melton, App Fisher, Rahela Padachira, kishore yedoti, Neri Karra, PhD, Adil Hussain Rather, Andrew Cartwright, Heather Pegas, Carolyn F. Chryst, Ph.D., Gregory G Fox, Bahaddin Ahmadov, T Mann, Preston Charles,

Welcome new writers joined SYNERGY:

Zane Fleming, Øivind H. Solheim, A.M. Radulescu, Kaye Dems, Fasiha Imran, Belle du Journey, Ilona Gawin Goanos, Solien Ku, Danna Z, Janette Hoefer, Maria Kalomiris, Fredrik Carleson, Corrie Alexander, Wide Writer, Jorge Robert, Stefan Bernhard, Rebecca Pendleton, Subarna Khorshed, CodeHunk, Louie J. Solo, Jennifer Cross, Rob Stein, Josephine Crispin, Rob Stein, Nyasha M, Benjamin Bratz, Joe the Bartender, Zeph McGee, Kaila Charice, Danielle LoPresti, Andy Demidov, Zehn Ninos, Jillian Spiridon, Riaz Laskar, Allison Murray, Rob Stein, sebastian tasmanian, Irfan Arif, Venus Rebel, Chandra Vijay Singh (C V SINGH), Boniface Ugwu, Joshua Blake, Rahela Padachira, Adil Hussain Rather, John Strick van Linschoten, Gregory G Fox, Bahaddin Ahmadov, T Mann,

Welcome new writers joined Technology Hits:

Thiru Anand, Marisa Martínez, Subarna Khorshed, CodeHunk, Saman Herath, John Uzuegbu, Landen Melton,

Welcome new writers joined ILLUMINATION Book Chapters

Gregory Reece-Smith, Remington Write, Heather C Holmes, Boniface Ugwu,

Welcome new writers joined ILLUMINATION-Curated

Fasiha Imran, Birgit Pohl, Burk, Heather Pegas, Carolyn F. Chryst, Ph.D.,

Recommendations to new writers

Quality is the main requirement for all our publications. Our readers expect well-crafted and quality content. We strive to meet readers’ expectations. Therefore, we encourage our writers to submit quality content. Please use this checklist before submitting your stories.

Please check our resources for guiding stories. You can find ILLUMINATION-related articles and writer resources on ILLUMINATION’s Blog publication. Please bookmark and follow this new publication designed to address your publishing needs.

We redesigned the ILLUMINATION front page. We removed publication related articles and hosted them in a blog publication. Our goal is to give more space for visibility to the stories of our contributors.

Specific Actions for New Writers

1 — Please submit your best work for your readers.

Your stories must be the type of content that you want to read.

2 — Caption your copyright-free photos with source links.

This is the most common concern. It is time-consuming and stressful situations for our editors. Editors are tired of leaving comments and waiting for responses from writers who neglect captioning photos. Besides, they delay publishing your great stories.

Policy: All photos must be captioned with source links.

We recommend using copyright-free photos e.g. stock photos from unsplash.com, pexels.com, pixabay.com and several more listed in the attached story. If you add your own photos please clearly explain the copyright status.

Please review our photo handling policy for guidance.

3 — Our publications don’t accept plagiarized content.

We cannot emphasize this enough. Despite all, we still deal with a few plagiarists. We had to remove 200+ writer who attempted plagiarism.

To reiterate, we only accept stories written by you. Medium does not accept plagiarism and duplication. Plagiarism is an illegal act and duplication is against Medium rules.

Our publications have zero tolerance for plagiarized materials. Our editors diligently monitor and detect plagiarism and duplication by using different methods and various tools.

Our position is detailed in this article.

In a nutshell, we remove writers submitting plagiarized content.

4 — As a new writer, please start with submit a maximum of two stories a day and wait for reader exposure.

Considering contributions from thousands of writers, it is not possible to cater to multiple submissions from each writer especially when their stories require substantial editing. We exempt outstanding stories from limited submission as our editors don’t have to spend too much time in improving content of experienced writers.

We are delighted to support our experienced and prolific and experienced writers to submit up to three drafts within 24 hours to ILLUMINATION and ILLUMINATION-Curated. Since they submit high-quality materials, we don’t have to spend too much time on these types of submissions. We are grateful.

Due to current editorial limitations imposed by Medium, we created a new publication to load balance ILLUMINATION. If you write multiple stories, you can submit the rest to ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR.

It is important to note that until new writers improve their writing skills and gain acceptance by readers, we recommend them to submit only one story a day. This restriction is for writers who are not familiar with the fundamentals of Medium story writing yet.

We will help you improve your skills.

We are accepting short-form stories. We allow additional three short-form stories per publication. Details are in this story.

5 — Please check and respond to your private messages.

Medium allows communication between publications and writers only via private messages. If your private messages were turned off in settings, you would not receive a notification. Please check your story for * sign, which indicates a private message. This sign can usually be on the upper part of your story.

Editors may request you to fix an issue in your story. Please acknowledge and address the issue in a timely manner. We cannot hold stories for more than 24 hours in our queue. If no response is provided, we will return the story.

6 — Platform rules and expectations of your audience.

We are working on a large and complex platform.It will be useful to learn the rules of the platform and get to know your audience.Please check the conduct guidelines in the attached article.

7 — Review Publication Conduct Guidelines and other useful articles before submitting your story

These stories can guide new writers. Here are the simplified rules for new writers.

This story focuses on fundamentals and some advanced topics for writers. Many new writers found this story useful.

8 — Review the quality checklist

We created a checklist based on our guidelins. Please use this checklist before submitting your stories to our all publications.

When you submit acceptable content, your stories can be published faster. You can reach out to your audience quicker and gain more readers. This checklist covers all our publishing requirements.

9 — Amplify your stories

Writers need to take personal responsibility to create visibility. One way of increasing the visibility and reading times of your stories is to amplify them meaningfully. We created collaborative tools and platforms. Collaboration is crucial for Medium writers. Please review these guides to get you started with our social media tools.

Amplify Your Medium Stories with Facebook Pages and Groups

How to Get Started with Quora and Amplify Your Medium Stories

How to Get Started with Pinterest and Amplify Your Medium Stories

Amplify Your Medium Stories with YouTube

Amplify Your Medium Stories with LinkedIn Groups

You can join the ILLUMINATION LinkedIn group from this link.

Details for each item can be found in this story.

Grow your network on Goodreads

Collaborate on Goodreads. It is a large platform with 20 million members.

If you authored books, Goodreads can be an ideal place to create visibility.

How we create more visibility for your stories

We use various platforms and tools to amplify your stories.

Daily Digest

One way of sharing your stories with Medium readers is a daily digest.

Here is a sample of our latest daily digest. This daily digest can also be useful for writers to explore the stories of other writers in our publication. We recommend you share the daily digest in your social media tools.

Collection of recently featured stories

For ILLUMINATION-Curated we create daily volumes.

Here is one of the latest post.

We keep a link to all volumes in this story.

Blogs

We blog the daily digests and also replicate all stories to our blog site using Medium RSS service.

Social Media

Editors tweet your stories after reviewing and publishing them.

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/illum_official

Facebook

We have two Facebook pages and a Facebook group. We automatically post your stories. However, you can supplement your posts. Instructions to participate are in this story.

We have a new private FaceBook group just for our writers. It is called SYNERGY. This will be our main external social network.

Quora

Quora is important for our writers. We share your stories but you can also share your stories in two Quora spaces. Details in this story: https://readmedium.com/how-to-get-started-with-quora-and-amplify-your-medium-stories-969f309b0967

LinkedIn

We automatically post your stories to our Linked page and groups. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13914581/

Pinterest

Another creative distribution is using Pinterest. https://readmedium.com/how-to-get-started-with-pinterest-and-amplify-your-medium-stories-94435d586d51

Flipboard

We automatically post your stories to Flipboard magazines.

We have started replicating stories of SYNERGY.

Useful Resources for Writers

The stories listed below can provide guidance on the use of publication and interaction with others.

Please start with our blog where we keep all our resources.

Process and Procedures for ILLUMINATION

A Practical Guide for Writers

About ILLUMINATION-Curated

References about ILLUMINATION-Curated can be accessed from this single story.

Writer bios from their pen

We recommend you submit a story about yourself.

You can find samples from this story.

Six Reasons Writers Need Bios

Interviews with writers

Invitation to ILLUMINATION YouTube Channel

Meet Top Writers on ILLUMINATION

Meet Editors of ILLUMINATION

Link Your Twitter Handle to Your Medium Account

How to earn good money on Medium

How to create viral stories on Medium

Can you make $10,000 on Medium in a month?

How To Make Six-Figure Income On Medium

Writers Invited to Promote Their Publications

Publications Owned by Illumination Writers

Testimonials about ILLUMINATION

Storybooks and publication indexing

Good News

Medium paid $500 bonus to 1,000 most engaging writers. I hope you engage with other writers and post meaningful stories for such future awards.

Collaboration With Other Writers

Then we have three virtual clubs for your engagement. These clubs are fun and run on our Slack Workspace. 7,500+ Medium Writers are collaborating in our Slack group.

Here is essential information about our Slack Workspace

ILLUMINATION Fiction Club

ILLUMINATION Poetry Club

Technology Hits — The TSEE Club

Fiction and Poetry Bios of ILLUMINATION Writers

We are now introducing ILLUMINATION Book Club. Details are in the Slack group.

Meet our editors

Our editors work hard to help our writers succeed. They invest their precious time volunteering for the smooth publishing of your stories.

ILLUMINATION-Curated, ILLUMINATION, Dr Mehmet Yildiz, Tree Langdon, Brian E. Wish, PhD, Dr Ron Pol, Dr Michael Heng, Paul Myers MBA, Karen Madej, Joe Luca, Dipti Pande, Kevin Buddaeus, Kate Maxwell, Arthur G. Hernandez, Bill Abbate, Michael Patanella, Aurora Eliam, CMP, René Junge, Geetika Sethi, Ahmed Jamal, Britni Pepper, Selma, Earnest Painter, Dew Langrial, B. A. Cumberlidge. Lanu Pitan, Agnes Laurens, EP McKnight, MEd, CR Mandler MAT, The Maverick Files, Sumera Rizwan, Liam Ireland, Tony Young, Jr., Neha Sandhir S, Desiree Driesenaar, Stuart Englander, Ntathu Allen, Thewriteyard, Haimish Mead, Maria Rattray, Cristo Lopez, PhD, Dr Preeti Singh, Holly Kellums, Kristina Segarra, Yohanan Gregorius, Audrey Malone,janny’s heart, Sabana Grande, Jennifer Friebely, Zen Chan, Aamir Kamal 🚀🚀🚀, John Cunningham, [arlie] PEYTON, Georgia Dimitrious, Kim Petersen, Josh Balerite Acol, Noorain Hassan, BMS, Mallika Vasak, Ikram Al Mouaswas, Terry L. Cooper, George Blue Kelly, Scott Hughey (TheWriteScott), Claire Kelly,

You can find editor profiles in this story.

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Recently joined groups

You can connect with recently joined new writers from these onboarding packs and explore their stories.

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Invitation to prospective writers

To join our vibrant publications, please send a request via this link. We will help you succeed. Please point out publication name with your Medium account ID in the request.