Featured Stories Issue #53
Selected stories from 9,400 writers supporting 94,000 readers on ILLUMINATION
It is our pleasure to provide you fresh stories every day.
These interesting stories from our growing collection can inform and entertain you. External readers can access them via blogs on Word Press.
Thank you for the following ILLUMINATION and for reading the engaging stories shared by our creative writers.
Our previous digests are accessible from this collection.Collection of Featured Stories
Easy access to daily selected stories from engaging writers of ILLUMINATIONmedium.com
You may check this collection of book chapters in our special publication (ILLUMINATION Book Chapters) hosting published books from accomplished authors.Index of Published Book Chapters
Easy access to chapters for readers on Mediummedium.com
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All writers are invited to join a writing challenge as proposed by Dr Mehmet Yildiz. These stories provide an opportunity for writers and readers to cross-pollinate.Invitation To A Writing Challenge
Share your concerns and aspirations in a storymedium.com
How to grow and become a top writer on Medium in three months: 100 Day Challenge For New Writers100 Day Challenge For New Writers
How to grow and become a top writer on Medium in three monthsmedium.com
Please enjoy our fresh stories.
Keri Mangis
Get in the Arena with Us, or Get out of Our Way
Get in the Arena with Us, or Get out of Our Way
Writing in times like these is not about perfection. It’s about bringing our whole humanity to the table.medium.com
Karen Madej
ILLUMINATION Book Chapters First Chapter Writing Tips
ILLUMINATION Book Chapters First Chapter Writing Tips
Please help yourself to first attracting readers and then making it easy for them to read the next chapter.medium.com
The Maverick Files
To All Illumination Detractors — A Respectful Yet Befitting Response
To All Illumination Detractors — A Respectful Yet Befitting Response
Mud-slinging will most often stain your own clothes too.medium.com
Dr Mehmet Yildiz
How To Create A 30,000 Words E-book In A Month
How To Create A 30,000 Words E-book In A Month
Practical steps to produce a manuscript with 1,000-word a daymedium.com
David Gerken
4 Life Lessons We Can All Learn By Playing Sports
4 Life Lessons We Can All Learn By Playing Sports
And you don’t have to be a good athlete, either.medium.com
Alana Rister, Ph.D.
If You Write for Money, You Are A Real Writer
If You Write for Money, You Are A Real Writer
Those who suggest you are not should check their privilegemedium.com
Alexander Yu
As You Seek, Don’t Forget To See
As You Seek, Don’t Forget To See
How a late basketball great, K-pop star, and kid’s movie offer insights into the meaning of lifemedium.com
Ian Vanderlinden
How to Instantly Improve Your Singing
How to Instantly Improve Your Singing
No, this is not clickbait.medium.com
Matthew Prince
Stop the Bullshitting, Too Many Freedom Cages You
Stop the Bullshitting, Too Many Freedom Cages You
Find the balance between freedom and disciplinemedium.com
Marcel Badia
The Necessity of Digital Disconnect to Increase Productivity
The Necessity of Digital Disconnect to Increase Productivity
An increasingly necessary digital detox that has employers on edgemedium.com
Paola Perez
How To Successfully Stick to a Healthy Diet
How To Successfully Stick to a Healthy Diet
Despite craving unhealthy foods all day long.medium.com
Floyd Mori
Japanese Americans Lost Their Homes But Were Not Exactly Homeless
Japanese Americans Lost Their Homes But Were Not Exactly Homeless
It happened during World War IImedium.com
pst tomowo
What Faith is: Faith is a lifestyle…
What Faith is: Faith is a lifestyle…
Faith is a Lifestyle… a choice lifestyle.. Faith is not a means to an end.medium.com
Shawn Ingram
Retest
Retest
A plague doc performs a retestmedium.com
Jonathan Thomas
I need to make writing my income source
I need to make writing my income source
I’m tired of my wage slavery — AfroPolymathmedium.com
Priscilla Yeung (Former Midori by the Sea!)
Will Immigrants Go Home First Thing If Something Happens to Their Homeland?
Will Immigrants Go Home First Thing If Something Happens to Their Homeland?
Isolationist’s strange mindset against globalisationmedium.com
Shawn Ingram
Monolith 2
Monolith 2
FLASH Fiction Challenge 100 — Day 24medium.com
Rose Blog
Our precious time and its importance
Our precious time and its importance
At which time are you living? The past, present, or the future?medium.com
Sharique Kamal
Follow These 8 Medium Writers to Level Up Your Writing
Follow These 8 Medium Writers to Level Up Your Writing
You should follow these eight most popular writers on Medium to take your writing to a new level and learn a new way of…medium.com
Arunn Thevapalan
The Process of Achieving Anything in Life is Quite Simple
The Process of Achieving Anything in Life is Quite Simple
The only question that remains: will you do this consistently for long enough?medium.com
Ethan C. Wright
Introspection, Whimsy, and Catharsis
Introspection, Whimsy, and Catharsis
Reflections on My First Month of Writingmedium.com
Sapna M
I’ve been to prison multiple times; with no regrets.
I’ve been to prison multiple times; with no regrets.
Here’s what I learnt from those trips.medium.com
Ann Venkataraman
Murder Mystery at Sapphire Beach
Murder Mystery at Sapphire Beach
Exploring the Cozy Mystery Genremedium.com
Scott Coleson
What Is Love?
What Is Love?
Finding the meaning of love in a world gone mad!medium.com
Burk
5 Grooming Tips Most Of My Male Friends Neglect
5 Grooming Tips Most Of My Male Friends Neglect
Although they’re painstakingly obvious, I used to neglect these for the longest time toomedium.com
Catrina Cowart
I Wrote New Content for 30 Days
I Wrote New Content for 30 Days
Here’s what I learned about becoming a better writermedium.com
Dhanaraj Natesan
What Are The Foods To Avoid In The Summer?
What Are The Foods To Avoid In The Summer?
It is better to avoid non-vegetarian foods like crab, chicken, and shrimp in summer. This is because they can sometimes…medium.com
JJ Sum
How Plants Ease Boredom During Lockdown
How Plants Ease Boredom During Lockdown
When life slowed down for all of us, we found ways to be more productive. A lot of people turned to nature to relieve…medium.com
Kimberly B
7 Annoying Behaviours of Highly Entitled People
7 Annoying Behaviours of Highly Entitled People
Entitled people don’t understand that they are owed nothing.medium.com
P.S.P. French
The Elegant Anatomy of a Copywriting Offer
The Elegant Anatomy of a Copywriting Offer
When your offer sells itself, you don’t have tomedium.com
Sumesh P
The Anatomy of Scams and How to Stay Safe — Advance Fee Scam
The Anatomy of Scams and How to Stay Safe — Advance Fee Scam
With many variations, people — poor and rich, smart, and successful — still fall for it!medium.com
Ankit Singh
5 Deadly Mistakes That Will Ruin Your Startup
5 Deadly Mistakes That Will Ruin Your Startup
Make sure you don’t repeat them.medium.com
Terry Trueman
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
People forget that Reagan launched his bid for POTUS in Philadelphia . . . Philadelphia, MISSISSIPPI, that is, hometown…medium.com
Jennifer Dunne
6 Key Principles for a Successful Mastermind Experience
6 Key Principles for a Successful Mastermind Experience
If you have the right attitude, a mastermind group can rocket you toward successmedium.com
JacquelineTV
The Letter That Matters #3 — to my Power
The Letter That Matters #3 — to my Power
Dear Power,medium.com
Dr Mehmet Yildiz
If You Don’t Like An Article, You Don’t Have To Read it
If You Don’t Like An Article, You Don’t Have To Read it
It is as simple as that.medium.com
John Ross
I Can’t Help it, I’m Yours
I Can’t Help it, I’m Yours
Poetrymedium.com
Deepak Sethi
YouTube Vs TikTok: Comparison of the platforms.
YouTube Vs TikTok: Comparison of the platforms.
How the two platforms rack upon various parameters.medium.com
Steve C
Lessons from Kierkegaard
Lessons from Kierkegaard
Insights on living life to the fullest.medium.com
Benazir San
My Truth
My Truth
Some people may say I’m a foolmedium.com
The Introverted Vet
The Predicament the Veterinary Industry is Facing
The Predicament the Veterinary Industry is Facing
And how it WILL affect you as a pet ownermedium.com
EJY
Behaviors Established During the Pandemic are Beneficial to Both You and the Planet
Behaviors Established During the Pandemic are Beneficial to Both You and the Planet
When the pandemic is over, maintain these Habitsmedium.com
Jan Vajda
What It’s Like to Dance in Front of 5,000 Cheering People
What It’s Like to Dance in Front of 5,000 Cheering People
And how to feel like it even if you’re not a performer.medium.com
Alice Vuong
The Ultimate Guide To A Truly Unproductive Day
The Ultimate Guide To A Truly Unproductive Day
14 habits you can easily implement if you hate making progressmedium.com
Abdullah Nadeem
3 Things Will Smith Does to Ensure Success & Inner Peace
3 Things Will Smith Does to Ensure Success & Inner Peace
On Jay Shetty’s Latest podcast, he talks with Will Smith and picks his brain about how he still maintains to stay…medium.com
Andrew Katz
On Hating Men
On Hating Men
How one French feminist repackaged standard-issue feminism with a provocative titlemedium.com
Ethan C. Wright
10 Things I’m Planning to Use Apple’s New AirTags On
10 Things I’m Planning to Use Apple’s New AirTags On
And the emerging battle of smart trackersmedium.com
Mandy Capehart
I Will Not Live in Fear of the Break
I Will Not Live in Fear of the Break
Practicing the art of embracing the precious scars.medium.com
Ntathu Allen
One-Lined Poem: Happiness (#18)
One-Lined Poem: Happiness (#18)
A phrase about one simple pleasure in life.medium.com
Humaira Iqbal
Success Around Her Corner
Success Around Her Corner
A poem.medium.com
Linda Acaster
How Do Writers Turn an Idea Into Fiction?
How Do Writers Turn an Idea Into Fiction?
medium.com
Stephan Chatigny
Would You Relive Your Life As Is?
Would You Relive Your Life As Is?
In what is considered his exuberant return, Friedrich Nietzsche had this revelation in the mountains of Sils Maria…medium.com
Bill Abbate
How Time Changes through the Life of a Regular Person
How Time Changes through the Life of a Regular Person
What should you expect from time as you age?medium.com
Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)
Numbers
Numbers
a poem via a submitted promptmedium.com
maurice blocker
I AM not SORRY
I AM not SORRY
I love your apology.
When it’s backwards.
Words come forward,
meaning in reverse.medium.com
Teresa Kuhl
Defining LGBTQ With Some New Words
Defining LGBTQ With Some New Words
L is for Learning All You Canmedium.com
Amethyst Qu
Three Encounters With Red-Headed Woodpeckers
Three Encounters With Red-Headed Woodpeckers
Watching birds can be mere watching — or it can be seeingmedium.com
Trisha Dunbar
It’s Time to Start Talking About the Strengths of a Neuro-Diverse Workplace
It’s Time to Start Talking About the Strengths of a Neuro-Diverse Workplace
Often when we think of diversity and inclusion in the workplace we think of race or gender, but to be a truly diverse…medium.com
Aldric Chen
These are my Secrets for Losing 10 Kilograms Daily
These are my Secrets for Losing 10 Kilograms Daily
Secrets to die formedium.com
Anthony Jackson
The Bird Without Wings
The Bird Without Wings
A poem about a second chance.medium.com
LJWriter
Reflections from a Recovering Hothead
Reflections from a Recovering Hothead
What I’ve Learned from My Last Bout of Ragemedium.com
Claire Kelly
I Used to Think I Could Fly
I Used to Think I Could Fly
What’s up with you, gravity?medium.com
Alex Ghaznawi
Letting Go Of Your Perfectionism Can Help You Move Forward in Life
Letting Go Of Your Perfectionism Can Help You Move Forward in Life
Re-frame your mind to see beyond the deceptive illusion that perfectionism createsmedium.com
Barbara Dalton
When A Marriage Fails
When A Marriage Fails
A Narrative, With a Solution, to Facilitate the Transition of Divorce for Children.medium.com
Stuart Englander
Day Tripping: April 23
Day Tripping: April 23
Pilsners, Pops, and Pandemicsmedium.com
Dave Richards
Beware Police Revenge For Chauvin
Beware Police Revenge For Chauvin
How Will Police Respond To The George Floyd Verdict?medium.com
Patrick M. Ohana
Georges Brassens
Georges Brassens
“Les Passantes”medium.com
Terry Mansfield
My Never-Ending Encounters With Medical Specialists
My Never-Ending Encounters With Medical Specialists
If only there was a Specialist of Specialists who knew everything, so I could just see one person.medium.com
ABINAS JAGERNAUTH
I Received an Email From India About Covid-19 Suffering and Deaths
I Received an Email From India About Covid-19 Suffering and Deaths
It hits home when you have a connection to those who suffer and diemedium.com
Celine Lai
What bothers me as a writer and what I want to do about it, and “the More Beautiful Question”
What bothers me as a writer and what I want to do about it, and “the More Beautiful Question”
I write because writing is to livemedium.com
Graceygee
3 Reasons Why You Should Invest Into Getting A Coach and a Therapist
3 Reasons Why You Should Invest Into Getting A Coach and a Therapist
Based on two lessons from a wellness coach’s perspectivemedium.com
The Maverick Files
Saving A Stranger from A One-Night-Stand Gave Me A Lifelong Friend
Saving A Stranger from A One-Night-Stand Gave Me A Lifelong Friend
The right thing can often be the hardest one to do.medium.com
America Zed
Dissolve In Peace
Dissolve In Peace
A micro poemmedium.com
Ilona D.
How to Learn Faster And 10x Better
How to Learn Faster And 10x Better
The best ways to learn everything faster and 10x better.medium.com
Neera Mahajan
Five Rules To Overcome Self-doubt
Five Rules To Overcome Self-doubt
I have often bemoaned over the writer’s self-doubt.medium.com
Yaqoob ahmad
7 Ways to Trust the Process
7 Ways to Trust the Process
When times are tough and you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, trust the process.medium.com
Dr Sachin pandit
Announcing 5 Factors of Marketing That Can Increase the Product Sell
Announcing 5 Factors of Marketing That Can Increase the Product Sell
Better Marketing Can Give you a Better Resultmedium.com
Veronika Kaufmann
A Story Worth Sharing
A Story Worth Sharing
Beauty is Everywhere ~ It’s not hard to find. Look up from your phone. You’ll see.medium.com
Mariza Writes
Want To Be Happier? Start Tracking Your Mood Daily
Want To Be Happier? Start Tracking Your Mood Daily
A step-by-step process to help you stop feeling drained and start smiling againmedium.com
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