Daily Success Stories from ILLUMINATION
Review of Values
1336 ILLUMINATION writers are supporting 11570+ Medium members

Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are. — José Ortega
With the rapidly growing number of writers and readers, we need to communicate the values of our publication continuously. Our values are critical to our success. As Besom & Bletherskite articulated, we are not just another publication. Over the last ten weeks, we developed new practices, techniques, process, and procedures to serve our writers and readers.
Since 19 March 2020, I have been providing daily updates of our progress, introducing new writers each day, presenting writer bios, sharing featured and curated articles.
I am pleased that one of the editors Ming Qian compiled all my bulletins in a single story to help the new writers to gain insights on our history. Many thanks to Ming for this give-back activity to our publication. This single-source can provide easy access to the editorial bulletins.
Rather than I summarize all our activities, it can be useful for the new writers to check these bulletins and explore ideas that we developed since our inception. You can access the daily editorial bulletins from the attached link.
Our editor Timothy Key created another story to feature our new writers.
Another good news: We activated our YouTube channel today. We have just started uploading videos created by our writers. Our graphic designer is working to improve the channel and we will commission it tomorrow onward. If you have videos created related to your profile and stories you can contact me and I can upload them to our channel for you.
I am excited to announce that we have six writer bios submitted today.
Meet our writer Shawn Forno
Meet our writer Diane Lee
Meet our writer Earnie Painter
Meet our writer Margie Pearl
Meet our writer Allen R. Marquez
Meet our writer Stacy Belinsky
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 11,500+ 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”.
What did ILLUMINATION writers create today?
Our writers created a lot of eclectic stories with many amazing voices today. They are fresh, engaging, and full of surprises. Many thanks to our writers for leaving comments explaining your great stories to our readers in the distribution list. Attached is a bundle of stories we created on ILLUMINATION today.
Meet New Writers of ILLUMINATION
32 new writers joined our publication today. We have 1336 writers supporting ILLUMINATION now. A warm welcome to our new writers: Alamiin S.I, Calvin L.C., Shelby Hatch, O Garcia, Anitei Alina, Jon Lye, Imane, M.X. Christopher, Fatima Sultan, Felicia Atkinson, arun simon, Nikki Cole, Mariana De Freitas, Ella Ebner, Arthur Billingsley, A Medic’s Musings, Ruchi Das, Tan Yin Lin, Tim Guan, Danielle Hamner, MSW, Aliyah Birdman, Uchechi Obasi, Amey, Adam Tabriz, MD, Nitish Menon, Sarkis Ardjian, Martin Van Duyse, Simon Spichak, Siraj K Zahr, Sriraj, Anthony M. Davis, Rei Yi Lai, Aisha,
New writers can start submitting their articles to our publication. 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.
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 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.
Featured Articles
Due to increasing variety and diversity of topics, we featured ten stories from our creative writers today.
Jian Xu
Michael Patanella
Alamiin S.I
Dr Kylie Harris
Mark Scofield
Dr Jeff Livingston
Dr Michael Heng
Agnes Louis
Britni Pepper
Christopher D. Connors
Stories from ILLUMINATION distributed to Medium Topics
Seven great stories from ILLUMINATION were distributed to Medium topics today. I enjoyed all these articles and gained insights.
A story by Eashan Reddy Kotha was distributed to #science #environment.
A story by Andrew Jazprose Hill was distributed #equality #race.
A story by Mike Alexander was distributed to #outdoors #environment.
A story by Simona was distributed to #self.
A story by Erin King was distributed to #food.
A story by Tim Ebl was distributed to #self #outdoor.
A story by Lucy Milanova distributed to #sexuality #relationships.
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 1336 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.





