My Curated Stories on Medium That Encourage Me to Keep Writing — Updated

These stories were curated and distributed in different topics

It is difficult to manage so many factors that go into writing well. It takes time and clarity of thought before writing a single sentence that can convey a particular shade of meaning.

For a good writer, writing is a tough job. It requires endless care and constant focus from the birth of the idea to the final product. Sometimes, this product is good enough to be curated and distributed in topics for the Medium members.

But this review by Medium curators is an encouraging sign of the improving quality of your writing. The curation always motivates me to write better than yesterday.

Here are some of my stories that the curators distributed into various topics:

Ernest Hemingway’s Advice about Writing You Must Not Ignore

It was chosen for further distribution in writing.

Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest American writers won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 “for his powerful, style-forming mastery of the art of narration.”

Hemingway thought that it was, somehow, bad luck to talk about writing — that it takes off “whatever butterflies have on their wings and the arrangement of hawk’s feathers if you show it or talk about it.”

How a Work-Shirker Knows the Right Way To Work Hard

It was chosen for further distribution in work.

You have to be a shirker to really capture the spirit of working hard. The right way to work hard is not so hard after all.

Are you working harder than you need to? Let us see how avoiding work can make you develop a different sort of muscle.

It is the story of a girl who loved to read.

Aren’t the brilliant only mediocre most of the time

It was chosen for further distribution.

“When will we complete the assignment?” My friend Derek reminded me again and again.

Now, tomorrow was the deadline. I was waiting to reenter into my zone of excellence to finish our assignment. It was 4:00 pm, and I didn’t have a clue. Whatever I was waiting for, it was not coming to me.

“Don’t you worry. I’ll complete the assignment on time,” I lied. We were in the computer lab of the university. Derek had an expression of disbelief on his face, though he didn’t say anything.

How To Earn More Money by Allowing Your Mind Many Short Breaks

You don’t want to take a break when the going gets tough. But is it possible to become 100% productive and never lose focus? Haven’t we all noticed how a break affects our performance?

Then why do you forget to take a break? Because you are thinking like this: ‘I am too busy to take a break. I have so much to do today.’

How Not Working Hard and Working Hard Change Your Life

Your work is canvas, and your effort is the brush. With this brush, you paint the portrait of your dream life.

You start with a blank canvas. Everyone does. When we begin, we have no idea of what we are doing or going to do. But then — deep inside our brains — neurons fire. We don’t know what happens, but our brains do something, and we have an idea.

A Successful Writer’s 25 Tips for Writing Online

Writing advice is great if it is simple.

You can waste a lot of time reading advice that doesn’t remotely help you. Or you can choose to get hammered by short but intense cleverness.

Tim Denning has had more than 100M views over the last six years. He says, “ I didn’t study beautiful English essays or date Hemingway’s mother.”

How Only a Reader’s Brain Can Handle the Challenge of Writing Well

Is your writing ability closely tied to your reading ability? Can your MRI scan prove that? I’ll try to prove my point in two minutes.

But first, why read anyway?

Knowing is a human need — like breathing or eating. If you are not feeling good, you do not always need to swallow a pill; sometimes, you need to read — or watch — something.

All Is Well: What Makes This Mantra So Powerful?

It was quadruply curated and distributed in MINDFULNESS, SELF, PSYCHOLOGY, and MENTAL HEALTH. Since I first read the mantra, ‘All is well’, years ago, in a book written by Louis L. Hay, I have often overlooked its importance more times than any other thing. It feels simplistic, too simple to be true or effective, I don’t want to believe that it can work.

7 Ways to Be a Hero Without Doing Anything You Don’t Want to Do

The unusual has been trending for centuries now. The public demand for heroes generates competition. To sell more comic books or movies, the creators have to make the hero sellable. They have to exaggerate natural human traits to an extreme to grab attention.

Lighten Up by Knowing How Life’s Balancing Act Makes Us Equal

Almost all the poor boys and girls dream to live like kings and queens. Some of them succeed. People like Steve Jobs, Lady Gaga, and Oprah not only achieved their dreams, but they have created an impact on the lives of millions of people. Was life fair to them?

Why Big Things Have to Start Small

It was published in The Startup and double-curated in SELF and STARTUPS. Thinking of small beginnings, in 1995, according to Craig Stoltz, Jeff’s garage was his headquarters. When Craig visited Amazon for a story in The Washington Post, Jeff told him that he had been up late packing books with his wife.

The Only Way Out if Self-Criticism Is Killing Your Work

When you start doing some work, a stream of thoughts starts simultaneously to tell you that your techniques are not good enough. After some time, you do not even have to criticize yourself; the inner critic runs in the background — like a state of mind — forever telling you that you do not have what it takes to be the chosen one, the liked one, or the preferred one.

How To Find Emotional Value of Your Story

The viral stories move you. When you are reading them, you are intensely engaged. It happens because the writer creates a connection with you on an emotional level.

What if I told you that there is an AI — Artificial Intelligence — that can tell you your story’s emotional value — as a number? Green is positive emotions and red is negative emotions?

How Positive Thinking Can Benefit You in Uncertain Times

What can you do when everyone around you is screaming that you are finished? Are they trying to discourage you? No, sometimes your loved ones actually believe that.

A study at Yale confirmed that nobody is normal. We are all weirdos — something we dread so much. Is it a mad, mad, mad world out there? Is this true?

Why Not Delete Some Useless Words Before You Hit Publish

Your reader’s time is money.

If you can reach your point with fewer words, do it. What’s the best way to do that? Learn to press the delete key more often.

TikTok’s Likely Banning and the World War Over Technology

It was published in The Startup. It was triple-curated and distributed in SOCIAL MEDIA, BUSINESS, and POLITICS. Since its launch in September 2016, users have downloaded TikTok more than two billion times. It has surpassed Instagram, and YouTube, in engagement time in the United States.

Apple MacBook Owner? A List of Useful Key Shortcuts for Better Performance

Like every other Mac user, I thought my MacBook 💻 will never have a problem. But a week ago, I woke up, turned my MacBook on, and I got a 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘺 💔 heart attack. My wifi had stopped working.

The wifi sign showed that my system was trying hard to connect. I checked my internet service, it was okay. I tried to connect to the internet via Bluetooth. I succeeded too. But after one hour, Bluetooth 🆂🆃🅾🅿🅿🅴🅳 working as well.

Zen Habit of Seeing Your Thoughts Come and Go

It was double-curated in: MINDFULNESS and SELF. Think of thoughts as trains and your mind as a train station. You can observe thoughts as trains that come to the train station and grab your attention. You can order a train to leave the station as you are the stationmaster.

Difference between Self-Love and Narcissism

Self-love is a good thing, and narcissism is the villain. But our parents and our society has trained us to ‘love others.’

Self-love is a tricky idea to grasp and put into practice. Most people confuse self-love and narcissism. Self-love is not selfish or vain.

The Promise of Immediate Payments Makes Our Brains Go Haywire

It was published by The Startup and curated and distributed in WORK. When Facebook was a couple of years in, some big companies wanted to buy Facebook. Nearly everyone around Mark Zuckerberg — his entire team — wanted to sell. This opportunity was the startup dream come true.

How to Write 10x Engaging Stuff Within 24 Hours With a Simple Habit Change

It was double-curated and distributed in WRITING and PSYCHOLOGY. If you have not been listening to gossip, checking messages, or watching youtube for 24 hours, you may even begin to realize what you are supposed to do, i.e., write engaging stories using your imagination.

Story Templating Can Help You Write First Drafts 2x More Efficiently

It was curated and distributed in WRITING. Story templating means that you pick any story or article and use it as a template. It must be written by someone you really like. Somebody you would want to emulate.

The Fear of the Future Makes Life Fun

It was curated and distributed this story in SELF. Would I like to know what happens in my future? Would it not be like fast-forwarding the video to see what happens next? Or would it not be like reading the last page of the novel when you can’t handle the suspense?

Ask Yourself ‘What Makes You A Good Writer?’

It was curated and distributed in WRITING. When I am not writing, I am learning to make my style more exciting — somehow. Does my work say what I want to say?

If Your Writing Is Not Smart, Original and Creative

It was double-curated and distributed in: WRITING and CREATIVITY. Imagine a world where you could do anything, and it was perfectly legal to copy ideas that belonged to other writers. Assume there were no intellectual property rights and no legal consequences.

How Many Hours Should You Spend Editing — Is There a Standard Time

So, I was doing a lot of work without being technically aware of what I was doing. When I was mulling over these types of editing, I found the Society for Editing for professional editors.

Why Reading Is Becoming Skimming on the Internet

It was curated in WRITING. The readers do not forgive because their time is valuable. In a fast-paced information-centric world, they can spare only ten seconds to evaluate if the writer fulfills their information needs before opting out.

Writing Styles of Best Selling Authors Explained in Simple Words

Curators distributed this story into: WRITING and CREATIVITY. When one publisher gave the manuscript to his daughter to read, she kept asking for more. Over the years, she has sold over 450 million copies of Harry Potter to children all over the world.

Ask Yourself ‘What is Your Biggest Fear?’

It was curated and distributed in SELF. Will Smith told a story about how he felt before skydiving — with his friends — in Dubai. He had to jump out of an airplane in the morning. “That night, you’re lying in your bed, and you are thinking. You’re terrified,” He said in the interview.

How Emerson’s Secret of Life Will Make You a Brave Person

“It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

What do you want from life? That depends on who you are. But for the most part, it depends on understanding what life needs from you to go on.

Changing Your Mind Is Your Right

It was curated and distributed in: SELF. Your psychological health, career, aging process, and almost every aspect of your life can benefit from such a change. I have often faced criticism for changing my mind. I try to avoid stubbornness, and I try not to be rigid in my opinions.

Think Without Words. Really.

It was triple-curated and distributed in: Self, Psychology, and Language. We have been thinking in words all our lives. We imagine that it is safe to say whatever we wish to say in our mind, that it does not matter. We should never mentally verbalize what we would not like to listen to in real life. All of us can get a productivity boost if we could quieten our minds a bit.

How To Become an Effective Writer in One Day

Is your mind drawn in several directions at once? That’s because your boundless freedom is an obstacle.

“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion,” it’s the so-called Parkinson’s Law.

Purpose in Life: How to Do More

It was triple-curated and distributed in: SELF, WORK, and PRODUCTIVITY. Many people live their lives without ever knowing what they want to do; they just do it. Others, like you and me, keep finding it. Purpose is similar to the concept of truth: it keeps changing its meaning from person to person, generation to generation.

A Violent Police Is No Police

It was curated and distributed in: Politics, Racism, and Equality. Who gave the police the authority to kill innocent civilians? You did, with your vote, or because you did not cast your vote. Police violence is like domestic abuse where you cannot do anything at all. The whole world is watching.

Not Knowing Everything Is Vital for Knowing Your Own Self

Curated and distributed in SELF. Einstein believed that if you read too many books, you could become a lazy thinker. Such lazy thinkers will try to find a video, a lecture, or an article on everything they are facing in life. From emotional issues to food choices, they will become slaves to information provided by others.

Good Hard Work vs. Bad Hard Work

It was curated and distributed in: Work and Productivity. These days everybody seems to be working hard or trying hard to work. If you don’t feel forced to work every day, or don’t feel overly glad to use work as a form of escapism, you might be one of the lucky few who are rightly balancing work and life.

Second Civil War: What Is the Boogaloo Movement?

It was curated and distributed in: POLITICS, SOCIETY, and EQUALITY. Considering the present situation, can somebody be insensitive enough to say racist things? Boogaloo boys are ideologically guided by a wish to spark a second civil war in America.

Emotions vs. Intellect: Decide Now to Live a Good Life

It was double-curated and distributed in: PSYCHOLOGY and SOCIETY. We can only guide ourselves with intellect to experience life through observation and study, but our feelings and emotions must ultimately guide us in living a good life.

Intensity of Living Your Life: Can You Control It?

It was curated and distributed in: SELF. There are levels of life that we are willing to accept. If you are breathing, eating, and sleeping, you are alive. But, on a deeper level, are you alive? The answer to this question would be completely subjective. It would depend on what you may be feeling at the moment.

How to Take Your Writing Less Seriously

It was distributed by curators in WRITING. You are writing original stuff. You are creating material from the depths of your soul. Right? If you are not having fun writing your stories, your readers will feel your too serious tone in your writing.

George Floyd: What Would Gandhi, Mandela and Dr. King Say

It was triple-curated and distributed in: EQUALITY, RACE, and SOCIETY. Floyd was lying face down on the road, and Chauvin pinned him down with a knee on his neck. He said, sixteen times, that he could not breathe, but the officers ignored his requests. “Mama,” Floyd said twice, “Mama”. His brother, Terrence Floyd, said, “Black lives matter too,..” but he couldn’t complete his sentence and cried.

The Worst Enemy to Creativity Is Self-Doubt

When you start writing, a stream of thoughts begins that tells you that your writing style is not good enough.

As time passes, you don’t even hear the chatter; self-doubt runs in the background — like a state of mind — forever assuring you that you do not have what it takes to be a writer.

How To Write More Positive and Inspiring Stories

Why do you occasionally sprinkle crushed red pepper on your pizza? Things taste more enjoyable if you mix different flavors in a controlled way.

Something similar happens when it comes to writing inspiring stories. Inspiring pieces should start with troubling tales to let the positivity shine through.

The Secret Ingredient To Make You a Good Nonfiction Writer

With so many new articles published every day, probably every one of your brilliant ideas has been done to death. Is it even possible to write original stories? And, if so, what is the one most important ingredient?

If you are like me, you cringe at how similar some of the newly published stories sound to your half-finished drafts.

How To Reinvigorate Your Passion for the Writing Craft

With so many new articles published every day, probably every one of your brilliant ideas has been done to death. Is it even possible to write original stories? And, if so, what is the one most important ingredient?

If you are like me, you cringe at how similar some of the newly published stories sound to your half-finished drafts.

Demystifying Medium Curation Guidelines

You don’t buy every book when you go to a book store. You read the book reviews for guidance. The curation is a review of your written piece — by Medium. What Medium wants and what you can do about it — an explanation of the requirements for successful curation.

Positive Minds — my publication

Our focus is to help you get curated, to promote you, and to create a good reputation for our publication. I invite you to become a writer for Positive Minds. Write inspiring stories with positive messages.

JavaScript Variables Explained With Love Triangles

I got my first story published in The Startup today. They contacted me to tell me that they loved my story. I am really happy to share this news. It was curated in programming.

If your girlfriend replaces you with someone else, you are a variable in her life program. But I can assure you that JavaScript coding is not as hard as a break-up.