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Date Posted: 15:36:58 11/03/05 Thu GMT-5
Author: DianeG
Author Host/IP: tor58-4-74-227.dialup.sprint-canada.net / 149.99.74.227
Subject: Re: How do you keep track of submissions?
In reply to: Roger 's message, "How do you keep track of submissions?" on 15:07:25 11/03/05 Thu GMT-5

Hmmm,

Well, I don't have a complicated system, though I do indulge in a bit of "overkill"

I simply use an MS Word document and call it "story tracker." I list the story title first then the date I it sent out, then the market, then the possible response date and finally the yes or no. When a story comes back and I get around to sending it out again, I just list it under the title again. That way I can know how many times I sent it out and where.

I'm afraid I'm also one of those people who has an actual, not vitual Day Book and I write the same things in there. I used one for years at work and so I still have the habit,and I like the ones that have a page for each day AND a monthly calendar too. That way I can put possible acceptance dates in the future months.

I guess if I had a zillion stories, it wouldn't work but it's doing the job at the moment.

I have a hard copy of at least one version (usually an early version) of most of the stories I've written so far. Thats more because I belong to a critique group than because I have great paper-tracking skills.

Diane

The answer for me is, badly. I usually send off a
>story to a market, then when it comes back, if I have
>some idea of where to send it again, I make a note
>somewhere, and eventually lose the note.
>
>For a while, I had a grid in the back of a notebook.
>One line per story, and check when I sent it to the
>market, cross through the check when it came back.
>This worked for crime stories, that had a kind of
>circuit to them, but it didn't last long.
>
>Anybody got anything that works? I'm thinking of
>settin up a spreadsheet, as I don't seem to lose
>computer files. Although I lost some stuff, including
>a story I'd like to be able to send out again, when my
>hard drive crashed a couple of years ago.
>
>Roger

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Re: How do you keep track of submissions? -- Lori, 16:27:56 11/03/05 Thu GMT-5
- PS -- Lori, 16:31:30 11/03/05 Thu GMT-5