Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION
Productive Day on ILLUMINATION
500+ writers supporting 6800 readers

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” — Henry Ford
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” — Ryunosuke Satoro
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” — Phil Jackson
The importance of following on Medium
My key message to our writers today is the importance of following other members. Following is an important feature in many social media and content development platforms. Medium makes the following process easy for writers. All we need to do is clicking on the follow button on writers profile.
Following has several benefits for writers. When you follow writers, you can see their articles on your daily feed. I made it habit to follow our writers as soon as they contact me. I also noticed that our writers follow me back. This habit enables me to see your stories in my feed as soon as you publish them.
Collaboration is essential for writers. Medium made the platform accessible for writers to connect and collaborate. The more members you follow and get connected, the more visibility your stories can get. Contrary to other platforms, there is no limitations or penalties for following members on Medium.
Some writers don’t follow anyone. I respect their choice but don’t understand the rationale. I enjoy following others who follow me. This reciprocity creates serendipitous encounters. Using this habit, I always meet new writers, explore new content, and learn something new from their insights. Each writer is unique hence can offer new perspectives.
What did we create and distribute today?
We have two sets of curation list for our stories; one for non-fiction stories and one for poetry and fiction. Attached are the records for your enjoyment.
New Writers of ILLUMINATION
21 new writers joined us today. We have 500+ writers supporting our publication. A warm welcome to our new writers: Abigail Walter, Jayla Sun, Travis Horan, Ankita-Sharma, Miranda Waters, Eira Braun-Labossiere, She Writes, Abdallah Shawaf, Alex Wichert, Abdul Samad, Axelle Gouverneur, Em Unravelling, Kimia Arezi, Shagun Sharma, Gyanu Kharel, Unice Bondoc, Jamie Bird, Alex Boast, Kunal Walia, Nikola Ojdanić, zoomplanet
As usual, a few applicants did not add their Medium account IDs, therefore, I was unable to add them to the publication. New applicants, please provide your Medium account ID for timely addition to the publication. If you applied before and are not added to the publication yet, please send a request again and I will make sure you join our publication on a timely basis. You are valuable to us!
I added many writers to our Slack channel today. Thank you for the inquires. 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.
Please check our FAQ document for details of our publication. Our submission guidelines is in this document.
Writer Introductions
We had seven introductions today. I enjoyed reading these inspiring stories.
Meet our writer Tyler Piteo-Tarpy
Meet our writer Woei Teoh
Meet our writer Vincent Van Patten
Meet our writer Charlotte Zobeir Ali
100+ 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 6800+ readers. Please see the attached bio document as an example for creating your bios. Our readers are interested in our writers.
Featured Articles
We featured six stories from our creative writers today.
Kathy Lum
Robert Locke
Tameem Rahman
Christopher D. Connors
Kristi Keller
Janie Emaus
Stories from ILLUMINATION distributed to Medium Topics
Five stories from ILLUMINATION were distributed to Medium topics today.
A story by George J. Ziogas was distributed to #work
A story by Nita Jain was distributed to #science & #history
A story by Vincent Van Patten was distributed to #self & #history
A story by Ken Bourke was distributed to #productivity & #self
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.
