Updates on Achievements of New Writers for 100-Day Writing Challenge on Medium

Dear Writers and Readers,

In this post, I’d like to share valuable feedback obtained from many new writers who participated in and completed a 100-day writing challenge.

ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications support all levels of writers, from the absolute beginners to the most accomplished ones delighting our readers. As our largest publication, ILLUMINATION is inclusive and diverse, supporting 15,500+ contributors.

I posted this invitation on April 2021. The purpose was to increase followers and reading times and gain top writer status within three months.

Approximately 200 writers successfully completed the challenge, and over 300 are halfway through. This achievement is a remarkable outcome for beginners. Based on feedback that I received from these writers, they substantially increased their followers.

In addition, their reading times improved, and several of them gained top writer status. A few stories went viral, and some are trending. And more importantly, many readers had more reading options.

Stories published on ILLUMINATION received over 8.6 million minutes of reading time and additional few million minutes in the other six publications in our integrated group. Reading times are the gold standard for writers as they equate to direct income for contributors.

Here is the screen capture from the ILLUMINATION admin dashboard.

This excludes most of my stories as I keep my stories on my personal publication called Euphoria and ILLUMINATION’s Blog. In addition, several editors also host their stories in their personal publications.

For prolific writers, we also offer 1,000 short stories in 100 days.

1,000 Short Posts in 100 Days

Please also consider participating in these two engaging prompts.

Share your concerns and aspirations in a story

Challenge called “The Proust Questionnaire”

Congratulations, and Keep Going

I’d like to congratulate those who completed the challenge.

ILLUMINATION recently posted a short piece to congratulate one of our inspiring writers (Alex Philippe).

I highly encourage new writers who joined our publications to start with this challenge. Beginning today, with persistence, you may reap benefits like many other writers within the next three months.

Please take this opportunity now. Time flies. Medium invested substantially in tools to enhance your writing and client-building goals. Our volunteer editors are excited to support you. And readers are waiting to read your engaging and informing stories.

Build Your Audience

You may take the opportunity for Medium provides partners supporting audience development. In your setting (Audience development section) you may update the subscriptions and memberships fields.

If you already have subscribers, you may export the list and consider engaging with them meaningfully. I provided guidance on building an audience in this story: Subscribers Can Produce 50 Times Better Results Than Followers for Freelance Writers: How I gained 100K subscribers in a decade. 12 powerful strategies, tactics, and techniques to create a solid mailing list.

Please inform me about your success via email or Slack group. My doors are always open to you when you need help. I am one message away from supporting you.

Summary of 100-Day Writing Challenge

In this invitation last April, I provided 15 tips that I’d like to highlight here.

100 Day Challenge For New Writers: How to grow and become a top writer on Medium in three months

1 — Create visibility via meaningful engagement

2 — Follow first and expect to be followed later

3 — Introduce yourself

4 — Post regularly

6 — Create short-forms to give a second life to your stories

7 — Take benefits of our integrated publications

8 — Create collections based on topics and tags

9 — Feature work of other writers

10 — Participate in writing prompts and challenges

11 — Create an act of kindness each day

12 — Deepen your relationships

13 — Create your own publication

14 — Ignore noise, focus on your work

15 — Stay optimistic and persistent

Since then, I have posted several guiding articles for new writers to shine on this platform. I also want to share a few guiding pieces for freelance writers that you might have missed. I hope you find these supplementary articles useful to boost your performance on Medium. Your success makes me happy.

Guiding Stories for Freelance Writers

6 Easy & Proven Tips to Increase Followers: Followers matter to new writers. Here’s how to gain more followers meaningfully without stressing too much.

8 Proven Tips to Build a Rock-Solid Reading Audience: A game-changing strategy for freelance writers to turn loyal readers into advocates for sustainable business outcomes

The Beginner’s Guide to Write Viral Articles & Blogs Learn 17 proven techniques and unique metrics

Five Questions To Increase Curation Chance and Reading Fans Critical questions serving as a self-editing checklist for writers

How To Become A Top Writer In Three Months An experience-based practical guide for new writers on Medium

What If We can Transform Readers into Micro-Writers: Compelling ideas to convert readers to writers with small steps, guidance, and encouragement in a supportive community.

Top Seven Social Media Tools for Freelance Writers to Amplify Content How writers and bloggers can use social media platforms meaningfully and productively with minimal effort

How To Create A 30,000 Words E-book In A Month Practical steps to produce a manuscript with 1,000-word a day

Storybooks and Indexing Publications They work. Here is the evidence.

Introduce Your Newsletters and Grow Your Mailing Lists Let’s collaborate to enhance our networks, gain new customers, and delight them sustainably

How To Triple Your Writing Income Methodically

How To Make Six-Figure Income

How To Earn Good Money On Writing

This Is My Simple Formula To Creating Viral Stories Increase Chance Of Your Stories Get Viral In 7 Simple Steps

How to Create Viral Stories

Can you make $10,000 on Writing in a month? Yes, it is possible but you must have a clear strategy, persistence, and effort.

Writers Invited to Promote Their Publications A give back and collaboration initiative of ILLUMINATION to support visibility of writers

Essential Checklist for Writers Improve quality and readability of your stories

1,000 Short Posts in 100 Days How experienced writers can create more visibility on Medium taking this writing challenge

What I Learned After Publishing 1,010 And Reading 100,000 Stories on Medium: Intangible benefits exceeded tangible ones

Invitation To A Writing Challenge Share your concerns and aspirations in a story

How to Turn Cold Calls to Warm Outcomes Create meaningful and sustainable connections and grow with courage, growth mindset, and serendipity

I’m a Writer/Editor: Why the Heck I Built An Affiliate Marketing Business After the Age of 60: The importance and value of affiliate marketing for content developers and freelance writers

Handling Story Photos: Publication Policy

New Publication for Absolute Beginners

We established a new publication for absolute beginners, as I announced via this story. This publication has no stringent rules other than following Medium policies. We encourage raw content in any form or style. We won't censor or edit but provide guidance privately for your growth.

You can learn about the vision and mission of this publication from this guide.

Vision and Mission of “Readers Hope”: How to transform avid readers to prolific writers using a supportive and innovative publishing tool

Collection of Featured Stories by Editors

Our editors are prolific writers and avid readers. They understand the requirements of both writers and readers. They can find valuable content and enjoy packaging them as featured stories for the enjoyment of discerning readers.

Here is the master copy of the editorial features. We want to see your stories in these collections. They are distributed to our subscribers regularly.

Why ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications Feature Stories: Editors’ choices are in place. We offer a unique curation and visibility service for storytellers on Medium.

Summary of Curated Collections

You might find the links to recently featured stories by the ILLUMINATION Amplifier.

Hand-Picked Articles #149, Hand-Picked Articles #150, Hand-Picked Articles #170, Hand-Picked Articles #171, Hand-Picked Articles #172, Hand-Picked Articles #173, Hand-Picked Articles #174, Hand-Picked Articles #175, Hand-Picked Articles #176, Hand-Picked Articles #177, Hand-Picked Articles #178, Hand-Picked Articles #179, Hand-Picked Articles #180, Hand-Picked Articles #181, Hand-Picked Articles #182, Hand-Picked Articles #183

Most recent:

Here are the last five curated collections from ILLUMINATION main.

Curated Collection #132, Curated Collection #131, Curated Collection #130, Curated Collection #129, Curated Collection #128.

Most recent:

Here are the recent collections from ILLUMINATION-Curator.

ILLUMINATION Reading Club, Curated Book Chapters of Illumination #01, Outstanding Stories — Volume 86, Outstanding Stories — Volume 87, Outstanding Stories — Volume 88.

ILLUMINATION-Curator compiles outstanding articles from our accomplished writers, introducing viral and trending stories. Here is the last three collections from the Illumination-Curated publication.

Starter Kit for Writers

We collected essential documents in a story so that new writers could find these references easily.

Starter Kit for Writers of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications One-stop-shop for beginners

About Publications

ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications consist of seven publications covering different scopes. ILLUMINATION-Curated and ILLUMINATION Book Chapters are for experienced writers and published authors. Other publications are open to writers at all levels.

ILLUMINATION ILLUMINATION-Curated ILLUMINATION’ S MIRROR ILLUMINATION Book Chapters Technology Hits SYNERGY Readers Hope Illumination on YouTube Illumination Gaming ILLUMINATION’s Blog

15,500+ Medium writers contribute to these publications. 95 volunteer editors review, publish and promote hundreds of stories daily.

Thank you for your contributions. Please keep writing and sharing. We are also grateful for readers who support our contributing writers.

I wish you all the best.

Dr Mehmet Yildiz

Chief Editor of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications on Medium

As a new reader, you might check my holistic health and well-being stories reflecting on my reviews, observations, and decades of sensible experiments.

Sample Health Improvement Articles for New Readers

Defeat Fatty Liver Disease with Three Doable Tips

Lower the Risks of Heart Disease and Strokes in Five Steps

Defeat Metabolic Syndrome and Slim Down Waistline with Three Tips

Why 442 Million People Live Diabetic and What We Can Do About it

Reduce Liver Cancer Risks with Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Make Your Lungs Healthier via Lifestyle Approaches

Make Your Pancreas Healthier via Lifestyle Choices

Make Your Kidneys Healthier via Lifestyle Choices

Make Your Brain Healthier with Ten Lifestyle Approaches

Six Tips to Prevent Brain Atrophy and Lower the Risks of Mental Disorders

What Can We Do About NCDs Killing 41 Million People Yearly?.

Five Tips to Prevent Infectious Diseases.

Three Tips to Improve Cardiovascular Health.

Three Lifestyle Habits to Lower Dementia Risks

Reduce the Risks of Neonatal Disorders to Prevent Infant Mortality.

Reduce the Risks of Major Diseases with Healthy Lifestyle Habits

I also write about valuable nutrients. Here are the links for easy access:

Boron, Urolithin, taurine, citrulline malate, biotin, lithium orotate, alpha-lipoic acid, n-acetyl-cysteine, acetyl-l-carnitine, CoQ10, NADH, TMG, creatine, choline, digestive enzymes, magnesium, hydrolyzed collagen, nootropics, pure nicotine, activated charcoal, Vitamin B12, Vitamin B1, Vitamin D, Vitamin K2, Omega-3 Fatty Acids, and other nutrients that might help to improve metabolism and mental health.

How a Leaky Gut Might Lead to a Leaky Brain and Lower Risks in 7 Steps

I publish my lifestyle, health, and well-being stories on EUPHORIA.

I wrote several articles on major diseases and valuable nutrients for health. My focus is on metabolic, cellular, mitochondrial, and mental health. Here is my collection of Insightful Life Lessons from Personal Stories.

You might join my seven publications on Medium as a writer by sending a request via this link. You might find more information about my professional background. I write about health as it matters. I believe health is all about homeostasis.