Self nominated stories for Illumination Curated
Selected stories for Illumination and Illumination Curated. Welcome to our Wonderful Illuminating World Of Illumination.

It is with enormous gratitude to Dr Mehmet Yildiz that I am able to write, edit and publish for both Illumination and Illumination Curated.
I am also thankful to have Dr Yildiz as a mentor. When I seek advice and wise counsel, he gives it unstintingly. Often he gives it without me even having to ask. He is an exemplary example of what it means to be a mentor.
I now want to share a few examples of my own work which I enjoyed writing enormously. Of course, I hope that these stories provided some pleasure and benefit to others.
Many times in life, when passing a difficult time, a few people have reached out to me and said “ You are not alone.” And I would dearly love for our readers to know that that is a sentiment echoed throughout our Illumination world.
We are all here on this planet earth together and it will be a very sad day indeed when we cannot find time to help each other on this journey through life.
I sincerely hope some my personal experiences and life learning can be passed on to you our readers and perhaps help you to avoid some of the many pitfalls that have caught me out.
Allow me to say a little about the topic of success with regards to Illumination. Just over six months ago this platform did not exist. Since then, with the vision and hard work of Dr Yildiz and the dedication of an amazing team of writers and editors, Illumination has gone from zero to hero in the blink of an eye, or so it seems.
At the time of writing we have over four thousand writers and around 40,000 readers! And we have only just begun. We are having wonderful success, of which you are a part. So, let us see, how can we help you in your own personal quest for success.
Now I see lots and lots of get rich quick articles. However I don’t see very much by way of anybody taking a thorough, systematic approach to the subject of achieving success. So I wrote this one giving all of my learning experience as a successful businessman and entrepreneur. I hope those seeking success can put this plan to as much effective use as I did. This plan helped me to launch no less than half a dozen successful businesses including a mega writing career, a very rewarding performing arts career, a piano bar, language academy and an exceptionally successful advertising, sales, marketing and public relations business. I can't say fairer than that.
For those of you who are seeking success here on Illumination and Illumination Curated, you might find it useful to read the following article. This is from somebody who is achieving success here even as I write and you read! Four months ago I started out on this Illumination journey. My first thirty days I got just 57 reads and 4 followers! This last thirty days I have well over nine thousand reads and over 850 followers! If that is not a great success I do not know what is. In the following article you will find out how I did it.
Here is another great success I am very proud of. This is a short story that has been fermenting in my head for the best part of forty five years! Illumination inspired me to finally get it out of the mental attic onto this wonderful publication. At the end of part one are links to take you to all the following parts, making it easy for you to read through the whole story without a break. This one is for pleasure, though there is also much to be learned from it. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.
Another field of reading and writing I simply adore is poetry. A poem is in effect a short story, neatly wrapped up in rhythm and rhyme, or free verse. It is a form where we have to max the quality of the vocabulary in order make an impression. In the following link, you will find at the end a short collection of poems I have published here on Illumination. Each one encapsulates something of my life and creative thoughts.
And so we come to a piece of purple prose, a piece I wrote for the sheer joy of it. It celebrates my emotional success at finally arriving at a good place in my personal life. I hope you feel inspired to arrive at your own version of heavenly bliss. Here's mine.
Thank you for taking the trouble to read this article and any others you follow up from the above links. Have a nice day.
