Featured Stories Issue #40
Selected stories from 9,300 writers supporting 92,900+ readers on ILLUMINATION
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Britni Pepper
What Bothers Me as a Writer, and What I Want to do About It
Creative ideas from Britni Peppermedium.com
Thewriteyard
Little Bits of Bother. Me and Writing
An inadequate response to the writing challengemedium.com
Michael Patanella
What Gets In The Way Of Our Commitments?
The title of this piece is a solid question, but it’s one that we probably never put much consideration into. If any at…medium.com
Eddie Becker
Selling Bug Killer to Women
Three keys to creating repeat customersmedium.com
Terry Mansfield
Don’t Make It All About Yourself
Instead of focusing only on your own problems, think of others, as well.medium.com
Noorain Hassan, BMS
Does Your Spirit Melt As It Should?
If it doesn’t melt inside, it won’t mold you.medium.com
Janice Arenofsky
Diary of a Mad Shrink
Some are naughty and not nicemedium.com
Terry Trueman
Shock-shit from recent semi-real life
Photographs
of Rudy Giuliani
as he speaks
in defense of Donald Trump
are like a montage
of surrealist absurdity…medium.com
Michela Pasquali
Difficult Relationships Tell Us a Lot About What We’re Resisting
Usually it’s the ugly stuff we don’t want to deal withmedium.com
Samantha Drobac
Do You Know Where Emotional Tears Originate From?
How much thought have you put into the tears that come down your cheeks?medium.com
Victoria Ponte
The Sky Was Blue
A Beautiful April Afternoonmedium.com
Yana Bostongirl
5 Strategies That Help When Dealing With A Narcissistic In-Law
Dealing with a toxic family member can be hard. It is important to be able to do so in proactive and healthy ways.medium.com
Sid Khaitan
Why the Future of Work is Freelance
#2: Scale and leave room for good surprisesmedium.com
Jennifer M. Wilson
Divorce Financial Paperwork is The Worst
It’s as miserable as my actual marriagemedium.com
Shreejit Sudhakaran
Reflections, Harsh Realizations: From a Former Social Media Addict
See what resonates. Know when to set boundariesmedium.com
Lydia-Renee Darling
Is Freelance Writing the Next Get Rich Quick Scheme?
I’m not knocking the hustle, but some of these courses give me drop-shipping guru vibes.medium.com
Sahil Patel
5 Things I Learned About Medium In A Year
A personal guide to becoming successful on Medium.medium.com
Miri
How to Calm Your Mind and Let Your Intuition Guide You
A solution to analysis paralysismedium.com
Anna Wang
Simple Family Vacations Yield the Sweetest Joy
Consider a houseboat trip: the ultimate dog-friendly family adventure, especially for over-scheduled familiesmedium.com
Michael Adelizzi
How Walking Through a Doorway Helps Us Remember and Makes Us Forget
What event horizons can teach us about life’s contradictionsmedium.com
Sapna M
Please, we don’t speak Hindu!
A lesson in racial and ethnic comments to avoid, when speaking to Asian Indians.medium.com
Dr. Fatima Imam
Kindness
One-Lined Poem: Happiness (#17)medium.com
Stuart Englander
Day Tripping: April 10
Ashes, A**holes, and Astronomymedium.com
Liam Ireland
An Illuminating Story About Book Publishing On Medium
For writers of the longer readmedium.com
Agnes Laurens
That Time When I Was
What is the time when you were?medium.com
Jacquelyn Lynn
Now We Know the Details of Tiger Woods’ Crash
Does it matter?medium.com
Mimi Bordeaux
Love Immune
They say that shit happen forgo your woes blind blizzard in a flapping dippinmedium.com
Kayla Vokolek
Looks Aren’t Reflective of Character
An obvious yet oft-ignored sentiment, at least online.medium.com
Nombuso Makhubu
3 Things To Do & Know About Covid-19 Fatigue
Censor what information you see, listen to and accept as your truth — the power belongs to you, so use it wisely!medium.com
LuluParise
Why You Should Write “Unrelatable” Characters And How To Go About It
The necessities of creativity and inventionmedium.com
Patrick M. Ohana
Living With The Leaves
A green sonnetmedium.com
James Halliday
Should You Be an Entrepreneur?
It’s hard, and it’s not for everyonemedium.com
Karen Madej
Weekly Wisdom from Karen
ILLUMINATION Edition #reactions #relationships #life lessons #common sense #meditationmedium.com
Aldric Chen
3 Reasons Why You Should Absolutely FALL IN LOVE With Your $0.01 Stories.
Simply put — They are extraction of our life journey and stories. Loving them is learning to give ourselves a big hug.medium.com
Quiksilver For Sure
Bamboozled by a Toxic Relationship: How to Begin to Heal with a Just Dessert
It may seem impossible at first, but finding your voice is doablemedium.com
Jessie Hamilton
A Guide to Successful Online Learning
Familiarize yourself with what’s involved before signing upmedium.com
Nishith Goyal
“Deliberately” Blocking Natural Senses Will Connect You with Something Unique
Your senses feel better when you give them a “conscious” breakmedium.com
Gippolito Ndp
Is Donald J. Trump the real last Jedi?
A thought exercise to explore how to effectively create an alternate realitymedium.com
Marouane Bembli
How To Start a YouTube Channel in 2021: Beginner’s Guide from 0 Subscribers
I’ll cover 4 points — the money of YouTube, how to get started with a brand new channel, what to make videos on and how…medium.com
Angelina Der Arakelian
How Long Can You Survive Without Sleep?
The importance of our circadian rhythmmedium.com
Delilah Brass
The Most Amazing Animals in the World
Let’s take a moment to recognize how spectacular mother nature is and marvel at some of her most audacious specimens.medium.com
James Kuo
The Algorithm of Aspiration: How TikTok Used Soviet Statecraft To Take Over The Internet
To beat the most advanced companies of the 21st century, the Chinese upstart is using a playbook straight out of the…medium.com
BernieWhat Extraterrestrials Think Of Us
Mankind, as seen from space.medium.com
Terry L. Cooper
To The Pharmaceutical Companies Around the World
Yeah. It’s me again.medium.comWhile I Was Sleeping
Not just another pay-it-forward storymedium.com
Jay Toran
What bothers me as a writer, and what I want to do about it.
Creative ideas from Joy Tran 😉 = 😉medium.com
Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)
Quiet Creation
A poem about hobbiesmedium.com
Lucia Landini
5 Ways To Survive Working With A Queen Bee
Keep Shiningmedium.com
Dr Sachin pandit
COVID-19 The Deadly Virus
Once again the entry of coronavirus in Indiamedium.com
MJ Adia
Give White Children “The Talk”
We don’t want anymore Trayvon Martins or Derek Chauvinsmedium.com
Susan Poole
Why There’s More to Writing on Medium than Metrics
Even though it’s hard to resist caring about the statsmedium.com
Cristina Comunian
The 10 Commandments of Crisis Communication
#2 Everything and everyone is inflammable or sinkablemedium.com
Randy Wolken
Where Do You Want To Go Now?
Don’t Settle For Your Pre-COVID Normalmedium.com
Eric Peterson
Leadership We Need Now
The search for leaders we can believe in to lead us where we need to gomedium.com
Steve C
My Dog Doesn’t Care…
…neither should I!medium.com
Naouress Akrouti
Do Muslims Believe in Self-development?
What happens when personal development meets religion?medium.com
Lucia Landini
5 Ways To Survive Working With A Queen Bee
Keep Shiningmedium.com
Melanie J.
One-Lined Poem: Happiness (#21)
A phrase about one simple pleasure in lifemedium.com
Francesco Joseph
Marketing eSports through social media
Social Media a Game?
Social media is a game, there is a rewards system that encourages users to participate which can…medium.com
Mai Tsutomu
Hold the Phone: Did You Know You Could Loop YouTube Videos?!
Am I the only one that didn’t get the memo?medium.com
Sydney Koel
5 Quotes By Don Miguel Ruiz That Will Reshape How You View Life
If you listen, you can find all the answers that you seek.medium.com
Floyd Mori
The Utah Capitol Steps Are Empty Now
The protests have stopped for the time beingmedium.com
Jeff Herring
How to Get Rid of Stinkin’ Thinkin’
Here’s how to rid your head of those “smelly thoughts”medium.com
Njikwe
Rapper DMX Leaves Behind A Powerful Legacy Of Vulnerability
Dark Man X will always live onmedium.com
Zachary Seda
The Act that is Immortal
A Short Story about Kindnessmedium.com
Josh Balerite Acol
Freedom
A poetry prompt for day 17medium.com
Terry Trueman
Spoken As The Ghost of MLK jr.
How have we changed and not changed since we lost him in 1968?medium.com
Bill Abbate
Why It Is Important to Move Beyond Knowledge and Understanding In Your Life
How to move past knowledge and understanding to meaning-makingmedium.com
Charles H. Roast
My Appropriate Reply To An Inappropriate Response To My Response’s Response
Adam-Henry alert!medium.com
Emlyn Boyle
The Caterpillar Jail
We can change if we allow itmedium.com
Carel Kolchinski
Black Dog Comes
For a while…medium.com
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