Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION
Originality & Authenticity Matter
Editorial Bulletin

Authenticity requires a certain measure of vulnerability, transparency, and integrity. — Janet Louise Stephenson

Originality & Authenticity
I touched on the surprise factor for our readers on my bulletin yesterday. I am pleased that most of our writers took the readers’ feedback on board and submitted many surprising stories.
Today, my focus is on originality and authenticity for content strategy. Based on the same survey analysis, I found out that our readers value original and authentic content in our stories.
I am glad that we meet this requirement as part of the diversity focus of our publication. I read over 300 new stories within the last 24 hours submitted to our publication. I was only able to appreciate 150 of them with my claps.
I asked our Friendly Medium Helpdesk, and they confirmed that the system allows clapping only 150 articles within 24 hours. Due to this constraint, I apologise not being able to show my appreciation for much more original and authentic content submitted to ILLUMINATION.
With the addition of more writers each day, we are committed to producing original and authentic content for many topics from various domains. We are proud of our diversity and variety to satisfy the needs of a large group of readers from different backgrounds. We aim to appeal to a larger group of readers each day.
Many thanks to our writers for enriching our publication and making it desirable for our readers. We respect and value choice of our readers and offer a wide variety of options.
What did ILLUMINATION writers create today?
Our writers created fascinating stories today. Many thanks for leaving comments explaining your great stories to our readers. Attached is a bundle of stories we created on ILLUMINATION today.
Meet New Writers of ILLUMINATION
28 new writers joined us today. A warm welcome to our new writers: Rabia Mustafa, Regina Halmae, Jay Squires, Sowmya Sridhar, Stacy Belinsky, Geetika Sethi, Regina Halmae, Zheng ShaoBin, Ayushi Parekh, William Peter O'Neill, Csenge Bács, Alexander Yung, Hamidah.O, Aline Müller, Björn Jóhann, Jack Burt, Judson Hurd, Clive Ang, Fahmi Salman Nurfikri, Jor Amster, Alicia K., Anbu Zuberi, Mitul Bhat, Dayana Sabatin, Natalie Carroll, Adit Daftary, bravenewmatt, Jacob R Meyers
New writers can start submitting their articles to our publication. 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 collaboration, 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
Meet our writer John Cunningham today.
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 9900+ readers. Please see the attached bio document as an example for creating your bios. Our readers are interested in our writers.
I also interview our writers to feature their profile and great stories. 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”.
Stories Related to ILLUMINATION
I compiled stories related to our publication in the attached story. This artifact can be useful for new writers to understand the culture and dynamics of our our publication.
Featured Articles
Due to increasing variety and diversity of topics, we featured ten stories from our creative writers today.
Julia Trefy PhD.
Christopher D. Connors
Mary Holden
Dr Michael Heng
Travis Horan
Joe Luca
MaryJo Wagner, PhD
Bill Abbate
Aurora Eliam, CMP
Stories from ILLUMINATION distributed to Medium Topics
13 stories from ILLUMINATION were distributed to Medium topics today. Many thanks to the writers for submitting original and authentic content and creating visibility to their stories and our publication to multiple topics on Medium.
A story by Jake Daghe was distributed to #productivity #self #work.
A story by Vanshika Dhyani distributed to #science #history.
A story by Kim Petersen was distributed to #self.
A story by Dipti Pande was distributed to #pschology #parenting.
A story by Jayne Stevenson was distributed to #self.
A story by Emily Kingsley was distributed to #lifestyle.
A story by Ashley Nicole was distributed to #marketing.
A story by Carmen Fong was distributed to #food.
A story by Margaret Chepnge’tich Bett was distributed to #fitness #lifestyle.
A story by Yasmine Ghattas was distributed to #culture #race #pschology.
A story by Marla Bishop was distributed to #writing.
A poem by Alexis Zarco was distributed to #poetry.
A poem by J.D. Harms was distributed to #poetry.
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.
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 aim to appeal to millions providing diverse and insightful content globally.
Publication Conduct Guidelines
Publication Conduct Guidelines Rules of engagement and cross-pollination at three levels
Process and Procedures Anything you want to know about ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications
Copyright Matters Zero tolerance to plagiarism on ILLUMINATION
Use Of Affiliate Links On Medium Guidance to writers who need to use affiliate links in stories
How to Survive and Thrive on Medium Essential guide to new writers
A Practical Guide for Writers: My collection for writing and writer performance on Medium
Improve Quality of Your Stories
Essential Checklist for Writers Improve quality and readability of your stories
Handling Story Photos: Publication Policy
Create Visibility of Your Stories
How To Become A Top Writer In Three Months
100 Day Challenge For New Writers How to grow and become a top writer on Medium in three months
Invitation To A Writing Challenge Share your concerns and aspirations in a story
Storybooks and Indexing Publications They work. Here is the evidence.
Short-Form Stories Not For Income But For Visibility. Think Of Them As A Tripwire
ILLUMINATION Poetry Club An invitation to poets to collaborate for productive fun
Mentoring on ILLUMINATION Peer support is essential for success.
To create further visibility of your work, you can join our Slack workspace and collaborate with other fellow writers. We have currently 8,810 members. You can share your story links in these two channels.
#post-your-own-writing-here and #chosen-for-further-distribution
An Introduction to ILLUMINATION Slack Workspace
Increase Your Income
How To Triple Your Writing Income Methodically
How To Make Six-Figure Income On Medium
How To Earn Good Money On Medium
The Beginner’s Guide to Write Viral Articles & Blogs Learn 17 proven techniques and unique metrics
How to Create Viral Stories on Medium
Publication Specific Information
Purpose of Synergy And how to publish your stories in this publication
SYNERGY on Medium Upon reader request, we renamed Passive Income for Writers publication
Inviting Storytellers From All Aspects of Technology
Introduction to Technology Hits Scope, overview, and participation methods
ILLUMINATION Book Chapters: A publication giving voice to published authors on Medium
Learn About ILLUMINATION-Curated Essential articles about ILLUMINATION-Curated publication
Paradigm Shift in Content Curation, Distribution, and Marketing
Self-Presented Collections Annotated stories by writers of ILLUMINATION-Curated
ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR A publication created to address Medium constraints for editors
Testimonials for ILLUMINATION Thoughts and sentiments of ILLUMINATION writers.
Collection of Featured Stories
Stories on ILLUMINATION-Curated — All Volumes Easy access to curated and outstanding stories
Reading List #3 — Technology Hits Selected stories for enjoyment of tech readers
Sample Book Chapters Discover 70+ published authors on ILLUMINATION Book Chapters
Top 100 Trending Stories at ILLUMINATION-Curated
Health and Fitness
Mental Health
Education & Learning
Education and Learning From Many Aspects
Love & Relationships
Leadership
The World Needs Passionate & Compassionate Leaders
Entrepreneurship
Do You Want to Become A Sexy Entrepreneur?
Business
Business Collection: A Mini MBA Bundle
Freelancing
The Power of Freelancing for Writers
Writing
Featured Stories About “Writing” From The Top Writers of SYNERGY
Artificial Intelligence
Top Stories About Artificial Intelligence
Top AI Stories on Technology Hits
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
NFT Story Collection on ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications
Cryptocurrencies
How Storytellers Articulate Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain
Featured Stories by Editors
Sample Book Chapters Discover 70+ published authors on ILLUMINATION Book Chapters
Index of Published Book Chapters Easy access to chapters for readers on Medium
Writer and Editor Biographies
Curated Writer Bios Learn about contributing writers of ILLUMINATION written by their pen
Writer BIOs Featuring ILLUMINATION writers
Interviews with Writers Featuring inspiring writers of ILLUMINATION
Contribution of Doctoral Leaders to ILLUMINATION-Curated
Meet Top Writers on ILLUMINATION Featuring writers with top writer status writing for ILLUMINATION
Six Reasons Writers Need Bios The most compelling one is visibility.
How to Use Social Media Platforms
Amplify Your Medium Stories with LinkedIn Groups
How to Get Started with Quora and Amplify Your Medium Stories
Amplify Your Medium Stories with Facebook Pages and Groups
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