Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION
Let’s Discover Avid Readers
2000+ ILLUMINATION writers are serving 18,000+ readers!

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . The man who never reads lives only one.— George R.R. Martin
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. — Jim Rohn
Reading brings us unknown friends — Honoré de Balzac

Update on Archival List
I received positive feedback from many readers who enjoyed the compiled list of our stories from a single file. It is also good news that our archival story holding 10,000+ stories has already gained high ranking on Google. We seeded our serendipity tree.
As mentioned in my bulletin yesterday, some stories may gain excellent visibility and even get viral if large content service providers can curate this list. With collaboration, we can create an extended profile of our stories collectively.
You can access our distribution lists from this story and add comments, especially by linking your stories which may be missing from specific lists. I recommend new writers connect with our current writers and create meaningful engagement using these stories as a starting point. Information is at your fingertips. This archival story is a useful tool and an opportunity to grow your followers and improve your writing stats.
Mentioning stats, as many successful writers highlight, reading is essential to be a prolific and reputable writer. Considering the importance of reading, I want to propose a new writing challenge, but it is more about reading than writing.
A new challenge for ILLUMINATION writers
So far, many of our challenges were related to writing. Today, I want to propose a reading challenge. The purpose of this activity is to record your daily reading and submit a weekly story on your reading records.
Your weekly story can include the names of the stories you read, link to the stories, tag to the writers of the stories, and a brief comment on each story. The title of your story can be “Weekly Reading Insights by [Your Name]. You can add creative flavour, advance writing techniques, and even can make it a curatable story. I leave it to your creative mind and pen.
Please feel free to tag me in your stories so that I can compile them for you featuring the avid readers of ILLUMINATION on our publication front-page. This activity is expected to improve engagement for writers, enhance collaboration and contribute to cross-pollination among our 2000+ writers. I invite all writers to participate in this vitality generating activity.
From my experience, simply put, the more we read, the more we learn and know. The more we know, the more we understand. The more we understand, the less we fear and enjoy life.
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.
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 our stories. 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. We grow with support, synergy, and collaboration.
In addition to our daily stories, I provided our featured and curated stories, including featured writer bios and interviews within the last 24 hours at the end of the list. We want to keep our readers up-to-date with our content featuring daily.
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 2022 writers supporting ILLUMINATION and serving our 18,160+ readers. A warm welcome to our new writers who joined us today: Erkin Dudu, Manoj Surya, Steve C, Janicemaves, Cedric Cruz, Vedanth Maheshwari, Chandani, Farwin Zackeriya, Selena Martin, Joseph Lieungh, The Crimson Citadel, Lester Golden, Lou Roch, Mayank Joshi, John C. Cox, Khelifi Ahmed Aziz, Kit Liew, New Future Fantasy, Munawwar Goonoo, Prasad Rajguru, Polly Clover, David Logan Hayter, Clarice Quinn Taylor
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.
Harley King
Lanu Pitan
Tony Young, Jr.
Writer Introductions
We have three writer introductions today. I enjoyed reading these creative bios. Great to meet these new writers who bring new perspectives.
Meet our writer Vee Goldman
Meet our writer Nomanono Isaacs
Meet our writer Kelda Ytterdal
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 18,000+ 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:
Dr John Rose
Maïa Belart
MaryJo Wagner, PhD
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 stories from our creative writers today. These stories will be placed on the front page for 24 hours for easy access.
Adriana Sim
Pepper Lowe
Celine Lai
Britni Pepper
Ahmed Jamal
Martine Weber
Ann Venkataraman
G.Lodhia M. Edu
Sylvia Love Johnson
Rasheed Hooda
R Tsambounieri Talarantas
Ann K Frailey
Kenneth Johnson
Nadine Clay, M.Ed.
Charlotte Zobeir Ali
Stories Distributed from ILLUMINATION to Medium Topics
So far two stories were distributed to Medium topics today. For some reasons, curation process appear to be slow on Sundays.
A story by Brian E. Wish, PhD was distributed to #politics #election2020
A story by Paul Crosby was distributed to #work.
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
Our current writers know that we strive for excellence. We aim to increase the quality of your 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.
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.
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.






