Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION
Readers Demand Freshness
1249 ILLUMINATION writers are supporting 10,839 Medium members

We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we’ve delved into. — Barry Gibb

I mentioned originality and authenticity in my bulletin yesterday and the day before I highlighted the importance of surprise factor for content strategy.
Today, I want to touch on freshness for content strategy. Based on the same survey analysis, I found out that our readers value fresh content in our stories.
I can assure you that with 1249 writers, we will not run out of fresh stories on ILLUMINATION. We are privileged by many writers joining us each day. Each writer brings a fresh perspective to our publication. Diversity is a major source of freshness.
It is my vision and strategy to keep ILLUMINATION with fresh content each day to please our valued readers. Many thanks to wonderful writers bringing freshness to our publication each day and our editors who support them to maintain freshness for our readers.
What did ILLUMINATION writers create today?
Our writers created fascinating and fresh 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
29 new writers joined us today. We have 1249 writers supporting our publication now. A warm welcome to our new writers: Ann, Gaby Tefel, Roger Skibowski, Luciano Duarte, Fasiha Imran, MOHAMMAD MAHIR TAJWAR, Rashika Chaudhary, Ricardo Testori, Clarisse, The Dozen, Eva Keiffenheim, MSc, Naz Ahsun, Stella Macus, Hela Dvorakova, MeikoPatton.com, Jamal H. Goodwin Jr., David Vilentchik, Z. X. N. Natallanni, Luca Rossi, Sruthi Korlakunta, John K Adams, Sudharshan Ravichandran, Elvy Rolle, Fabiola Gallerani, Ph.D., Elad Simchayoff, Shweta L, Kat Ruf, Tornike Beradze,
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
We have three writer introductions today.
Meet our writer Patrick M. Davis
Meet our writer Jenia Serebrin
Meet our writer Isabela Vasiliu
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
Our editor Timothy Key provides an inspirational and motivating story for new writers.
Featured Articles
Due to increasing variety and diversity of topics, we featured ten stories from our creative writers today.
Maria Angel Ferrero, Ph.D.
Joshua Davis
Dr Michael Heng
Rachel Sample
Michael Patanella
Timothy Key
Drizia Bolaños
Amy Cubbon
Tom Byers
Sylvia Love Johnson
Stories from ILLUMINATION distributed to Medium Topics
Nice 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 Alan Miles was distributed to #politics #society.
A story by Larisa Andras was distributed to #money #travel.
A story by Carol Piasente was distributed to #race #equality.
A story by Timothy Key was distributed to #creativity #writing.
A story by Pete Ross was distributed to #self #lifestyle.
A story by Melissa-Jane Nguyen was distributed to #world #race #equality.
A poem by Randy Shingler was distributed to #poetry.
A poem by J.D. Harms was distributed to #poetry.
A poem by Lisa Wathen 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.
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.
