Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION
Mission for Diversity Achieved
1035 writers joined and are supporting ILLUMINATION!

A diverse mix of voices leads to better discussions, decisions, and outcomes for everyone. — Sundar Pichai

I had mixed feelings yesterday, joy, gratitude, and a bit of disappointed. However, joy and gratitude easily overwrote the minor disappointment.
The last couple of weeks I was reporting 700+ writers based on the publication interface. Even though I was adding 20+ writers each day for the last two weeks, the dashboard was still showing around 700 writers. I took the plunge and approached the Medium help-desk for an inquiry.
It is indeed a friendly help-desk. The help-desk agent admitted that Medium publication interface has a technical constraint to show a large number of writers in publications. As a technologist, I empathized with this reasonable response. ILLUMINATION turned to be a large publication passing the capacity of Medium publication interfaces.
The positive part of my inquiry was that the friendly help-desk agent kindly provided me with an authoritative list in the CSV format. This data file was showing the exact number of writers with their account IDs who joined ILLUMINATION. I was grateful for this positive outcome.
I am pleased to inform you that ILLUMINATION has now 1035 writers.
Our publication is supported by writers from many professional backgrounds and they are writing in multiple genres covering a wide variety of topics.
One of the primary objectives of ILLUMINATION is to create diversity. With contributions and support of 1035 writers, I am confident that we are about to achieve our essential diversity goal. We will continue to grow and make our ecosystem more and more diverse each day.
By leveraging the notion of diversity as our central pillar, we aim to create synergy and the desired fusion for illuminating our society. When diversity, synergy, and fusion are in place, as a universal law, serendipity can always favor us. This is the main mission of our publication.
Yesterday, we celebrated our 9th milestone.
Today, we are celebrating our diversity achievement.
Our core values diversity, synergy, fusion, and serendipity are understood and appreciated by Medium 1035 writers and 9213 readers.

Yes, we are still the fastest growing publication on Medium for good reasons.
You can read the testimonials of our writers for ILLUMINATION from this story.
I completed a few more interviews with our creative writers featuring their excellent work today. You can explore fascinating backgrounds and great pieces of our writers from this story.
What did ILLUMINATION writers create today?
Our writers created many eclectic stories today. We try a new technique to engage our writers in the curation process. Our writers comment on our curation list and our readers enjoy their input. Attached is a list of stories we created on ILLUMINATION today.
Meet New Writers of ILLUMINATION
36 new writers joined us today. We have 1035 writers supporting our publication now. A warm welcome to our new writers: Jaida Williams, Domi Perek, Veronika Jelinkova, Shweta, Tonya S. Ware, Tina Theresa Tran, Wallace Runnymede! Orthodox Christian. Poet. LOVE, Jaimie Martinez, Subhajit Banerjee, Pratishtha Gupta, Afzal Kapasi, Ann Venkataraman, Zoe Yu, Sude H., Ann Venkataraman, Debra Emerson, Ivette Cruz, Thomas Dylan Daniel, Jack Bains, Rachel Sample, Pockett Dessert, Ian Worrall, Caitlin Ju, Patrick M. Davis, Robert Sedam, DVM, Akshay Ravi, Michael Elis, Annie Vladev, T. H. Sezz, Sara Wright, Trisha Kaundinya, Bill Todd, Lauren Johnson Gonzales, Alex Sevostianov, You can start submitting your articles to our publication at your convenience . Please see the attached story on submission process documented by our editor Timothy Key.
I added many writers to our Slack channel today. Thank you for the inquires and willingness to join our ideation 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.
New writers, please check our FAQ document for details of our publication. Our submission guidelines and several other useful documents are attached in this story.
Writer Introductions
We have two introductions today.
Meet our writer JJ Lim, BSc (Hons)
Meet our writer Vickie Trancho
200+ 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 8000+ readers. Please see the attached bio document as an example for creating your bios. Our readers are interested in our writers.
Featured Articles
Due to increasing variety and diversity of topics, we featured nine stories from our creative writers today.
Roger A. Reid, Ph.D.
Keno Ogbo
Fahri Karakas
Dr Michael Heng
Michael Patanella
Tony Young, Jr.
Alex Smart
JeffHerring.com
Marianna Saver
Stories Related to ILLUMINATION
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Stories from ILLUMINATION distributed to Medium Topics
Ten stories from ILLUMINATION were distributed to Medium topics today. Congratulations to all writers who created extra visibility via topics.
A story by Rob Rando was distributed to #self.
A story by Ming Qian was distributed to #social media.
A story by Kevin Buddaeus was distributed to #business #world.
Another story by Kevin Buddaeus was distributed to #philosophy #self.
A story by De Lin Show was distributed to #work #remote work.
A story by John Teehan was distributed to #self.
A story by Helen Cassidy Page was distributed to #writing #self.
A story by Sana Rose was distributed to #creativity #writing #productivity.
A story by Christopher D. Connors was distributed to #productivity #self.
A story by Omar Sharaki was distributed to #productivity #social media.
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.
New writers: please ensure that you check your stories for typos, spelling, and grammar errors before submitting them to the publication.
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.
ILLUMINATION Social Media Links
We share our stories in the following platforms. We encourage our new writers to join and follow these links.
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 over 650+ 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.





