You don't choose to be a writer, it chooses you. — In all honesty I really don’t feel that I chose to become a writer, I think it was more of a case of it choosing me. Something reached across the sky and touched me and that was it. As a child I enjoyed writing and at the age of ten…

I am so much more than meets the eye — Well, all you guys on Illumination-Curated know me as Liam Ireland, writer and editor at Illumination. Just like the rest of you I write articles, short stories and poetry, which I submit to this wonderful writers platform. I must admit that even as a professional writer in a previous life…

A collection of my best short stories — Since joining Illumination I have written quite a wide variety of articles, short stories and poems. However, like my life in general, it all became a bit of a clutter. …

Illuminating What It Takes To Succeed As A Writer On Illumination — As you read through this article, bear one thing in mind; myself and Tree Langdon, CPA, CGA, are fellow writers and co-editors of this article and we began our Illumination,Illumination-Curated,Technology Hits and Illumination Mirror journey just like you. …

I guess in the two years that I have been writing on Medium it was more by luck than anything else that I managed to avoid a writer's biggest nightmare. There I was editing a piece I had written when I made a decision to move the whole finished piece…

John Winston Fortune, or Lucky Johnny as he was better known by people who somewhat ironically knew very little about him at all, sat on a highly polished pressed steel public bench, underneath a willow tree next to the train station. Johnny, at something of a crossroads in his life…

A Shining Beacon Of Light — Having come to live permanently in Japan a few short years ago, one of the many things that struck me was what a well ordered, law abiding, peace loving nation the Japanese are. …

There are times in ones life when no matter how strong your desire to get on and do things it just never seems to happen. This is exactly what happened to me here on Medium. …