Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION
Rapid & Sustainable Growth (60.3%)
ILLUMINATION is enriched by 700+ writers supporting 8908 readers with engaging, insightful, & incredible stories.
We work hard and smart. Each day brings new challenges, and we love them. It was a productive and a joyful day on ILLUMINATION. A record number of articles were submitted.
I created a new pinboard on Pinterest, which started syndicating all our articles. This can give another avenue for discovery of our stories and the visibility of our writers. You can follow ILLUMINATION pinboard from this link. As mentioned before our stories are also syndicated to Flipboard and my blogs. Chris Hedges manages PublisherSpotlight.
I completed ten interviews with our writers. It is fascinating to explore more about our writers. Each person is like treasure trove bringing so much diversity and richness to our publication. It is an absolute pleasure to discover different dimensions of our writers. You can read the interview scripts from the attached story.
Rapid, Organic, & Sustainable Growth
Our writer and new editor Arthur G. Hernandez updated the statistics after his article around 20 days ago. Based on an analysis conducted by Arthur, ILLUMINATION is still #1 fastest growing publication on Medium. We experienced 60.3% growth in last 20 days. Results are in the attached diagram. We are growing organically as 97% of our writers are subscribed members of Medium who have a stake on the platform with limitless reading capacity.
What did ILLUMINATION writers create today?
I have no clue; which is the title of distribution list.
Our writers created many eclectic stories today. Let’s support our stories to reach a wider audience each day. The more comments you add, the more visible our distribution list can get. Attached is a list of stories we created on ILLUMINATION today.
New Writers of ILLUMINATION
24 new writers joined us today. We have 700+ writers supporting our publication now. A warm welcome to our new writers: Leon Purton, Marek Veneny, Cara Huffstuttler, Apeksha Rao, Equilibrum, Vishnu*s Virtues, Joshua O., Henry He, Nasreen Talukdar, Ricky Derisz, Dylan Eastland, Kahli Bree Adams, Angel Joy, Ece Mari, Melissa-Jane Nguyen, Aushaf Widisto, Rob Stux, Peter Morscheck, Danny Schleien, Glenn Osborn, Evan Hundhausen, J M Mantium, Lo Potter, Breanna Lowman,
I added several 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 improvement, 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 have four introductions today. I enjoyed reading these great bios.
Meet our writer Ravyne Hawke
Meet our writer Margaret
Meet our writer MaryJo Wagner
Meet our writer Lucy Milanova
We have 100+ writer introductions. This is an opportunity for our writers to showcase their writing portfolio. We distribute this document to our readers regularly to create visibility for our writers.
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 8500+ readers. Please see the attached bio document as an example for creating your bios. Our readers are interested in our writers.
Featured Stories
We featured six stories from our creative writers today. We keep them on the first page of our publication for 24 hours.
Roger A. Reid, Ph.D.
Michael Patanella
Caryn Leach-Smith
Augustin Vallee
Em Unravelling
Tim Ebl
Stories from ILLUMINATION distributed to Medium Topics
Seven stories from ILLUMINATION were distributed to Medium topics today. This is an excellent outcome from our publication writers. Congratulations to all writers who created extra visibility via topics.
A story by Rosennab was distributed to #relationship & #parenting
A story by Ron Dawson was distributed to #writing #productivity.
A story by Audrey Himantono was distributed to #women #equality.
A story by Toni Koraza was distributed to #writing.
A story by Devanshee Dave #money #economy #history.
A story by Emily Kingsley was distributed to #food #parenting.
A story by James Holley was distributed to #society #health.
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.
To speed up publishing your stories, one quick quality improvement is citing your photos. It is mandated by Medium as a policy. Please read this article written by our editor Timothy Key
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.
Please see an article by Timothy Key on writer invitation.
Several new top writers joined us. We have now 700+ writers. The more the better for our diversity. We aim to appeal to millions providing diverse and insightful content globally.
We are #1 fast growing publication on Medium.
You can also follow and enjoy stories of our writers syndicated to our external magazine in the attached link. We make it easy for you to find our valuable content wherever and whenever you want to read them.
