Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION
Repeatable Success with Joy
1955 ILLUMINATION writers are inspiring 17,573 readers!
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. — G. K. Chesterton
We had a busy day with many submissions to our publication today. Our writers are not only prolific but also quality focused. More stories of ILLUMINATION writers are curated to newer topics. As mentioned yesterday, our curation list is growing rapidly. I attached it below for your review.
Stories Distributed from ILLUMINATION to Medium Topics
Eleven inspiring stories were distributed to multiple Medium topics today. Each story is unique and well crafted. I felt privileged to have early access to these great stories on our publication. Each day audience from new topics come across ILLUMINATION, represented by its creative writers.
A story by Joe Luca was distributed to #writing.
A story by Brian E. Wish, PhD was distributed to #politics.
A story by Erin King was distributed to #relationships.
A story by TheSkepticalStatistician was distributed to #data science.
A story by Ilya Frid, MS was distributed to #health #self.
A story by William Samayoa was distributed to #writing.
A story by Jake Daghe was distributed to #self.
A story by Aurora Eliam, CMP was distributed to #self.
A story by Sudiksha Dhoot was distributed to #health #lifestyle.
A story by America Zed was distributed to #self.
A poem by J.D. Harms was distributed to #poetry.
As ILLUMINATION hosts an impressive number of high-quality stories distributed to the topics from our creative writers, I compiled those stories. I aim to create awareness for the high-quality stories so that our new writers can leverage these excellent stories, model the styles so that they can improve their stories for increasing chance of curation by Medium curators. You can find the complete list from the attached story. I update it regularly.
Update on Challenges
Many writers participated in two writing challenges. You can find them from these links: Challenge 1 and Challenge 2.
I compiled all submitted stories as part of this challenge in a single story for easy access. There are a few new submissions today.
Thank you for the submissions related to both challenges. I look forward to the remaining writers to participate and enjoy the benefits of this writing challenge. We need to collaborate.
This activity is an excellent opportunity to meet new writers and develop your relationship with them. This activity can increase the number of your followers and fans. The more fans you have, the more visible and readable your articles can be. Let’s keep our vitality and create synergy.
What did ILLUMINATION writers create today?
Here is a bundle of stories that I was able to add to our distribution list today. Thank you for adding comments to create visibility to your great stories.
One of the purposes of this daily distribution is to access to our stories easily. You can read and share them easily. You can follow the writers. I recommend enjoying as many stories as possible from this list. If your story is not included, please leave a comment by linking your story. As of publication team, we do our best, but it must be a collective effort. To this end, it will be excellent for each writer to take responsibility to create visibility for his or her own story. Please remember tweeting the stories you read. We grow with support, synergy, and collaboration.
Let’s check our publication page for more stories. Many more stories can be found from our publication page.
New writers who joined ILLUMINATION today
23 new writers joined our publication today. We have 1955 writers supporting ILLUMINATION now. A warm welcome to our new writers: Yannis Georgiadis, KD Murray, Isabella Lahoue, Stuart Englander, Valentina Colapicchioni, Arun Kailasam, Sidharth B, Virginia Villari, Paul Fairbairn, Edward Anthony Moore III, Danielle Hulme, Tejdeep Kaur, Jayden Yugie, Dylan Skurka, Kimberly Mintz, Gary Stover, MD, Stephanie Em, Reginald Ben-Halliday, Abhina, Tyrone Kidney, Olly Singleton, Gunawan Saputra, Akansha Priyadarshani,
NOTE TO NEW WRITERS: To ensure your stories are published on a timely basis, please provide required credits to the photos and extracted information from other sources. This is the most common issue delaying some stories to be published. If you turn off your private messages we have no other mechanism to reach out to you. If your article is not published within 48 hours please contact me from this link.
I received several inquiries from new writers who want to know how to add stories to publication. Please see the attached story providing step by step guidance on how to add stories to publication by Timothy Key.
ILLUMINATION Slack Channel
We created a writer collaboration platform using Slack. We have 392 members. I added several writers to our Slack channel today. Thank you for the inquires and willingness to join our collaboration 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.
Please also check our process and procedures for further details on our publication.
Featured Writer Bios Today
We featured three writer bio stories today. New writers can meet them.
Deborah Barchi
Sharon Hurley Hall
Margaret
Writer Introductions
We have two writer bios submitted today.
Meet our writer Simona Rahmanova
Meet our writer Anthony M. Davis
200+ 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 17,000+ readers. Please see the attached bio document as an example for creating your bios. Our readers are interested in our writers. If your bio is missing from this list, please leave a comment with your your story link.
Featured Interview Stories on Publication Page
We will be featuring one writer interview story each day. Today, we featured inspiring interviews that I conducted with:
Christopher D. Connors
Sumera Rizwan
Tim Maudlin
I have been interviewing our writers to feature their profile and great stories. I added a few more interview stories today. 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”.
Featured Stories Today
We featured 12 stories from our creative writers today. These stories will be placed on the front page for 24 hours for easy access.
Helen Cassidy Page
Robert Bush
Ming Qian
Joshua Idegbere
Tony Young, Jr.
Jim Latham
Rasheed Hooda
Michael Patanella
Bill Abbate
Kristy Lynn
Terry Mansfield
Dr Michael Heng
You can check previously featured stories from attached link.
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. The curation rate increased.
New writers: please ensure that you check your stories for typos, spelling, and grammar errors before submitting them to the publication. Our readers deserve high quality stories.
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 have now 1900+ 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.
