Spreadsheet and Earnings...

United States
March 3, 2007 9:23pm CST
How does everyone keep track of what they have submitted to where and then their earnings, acceptances, and rejections? I have heard some people do spreadsheets, is there other ideas out there? It is something I should probably start thinking about before I lose track of what I am doing.
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laowai
@laowai (136)
• United States
4 Mar 07
A simple spreadsheet is best. You should have the publication name, title of the work, date sent, date responded, and accepted/rejected. Then you can go back and make sure that you don't send the same work to the same publication. Or in the case of the New Yorker, make sure you don't send more than two pieces a year.
cyclonewriter
@cyclonewriter (2168)
• United States
4 Mar 07
Two pieces a year? That seems a little strict. I wonder why that is? Probably they get so many submissions that they have to limit them. Thanks to everyone for the great ideas !
laowai
@laowai (136)
• United States
4 Mar 07
yeah, it's definitely due to the volume of submissions they get. There are otherr places that have similar restrictions... I think Kenyon Review has something similar. I think it's also to keep people who really aren't good writers from flooding the mailboxes.
ReViewMeMedia
@ReViewMeMedia (3785)
• United States
24 Nov 15
I decided to use a free budgetting software to get myself to save money. I hope it works for me. I guess I'll find out.
danishcanadian
@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
4 Mar 07
I am self published through http://www.lulu.com and they keep track of it for me.
Melizzy
@Melizzy (1381)
• United States
4 Mar 07
Associated Content - Send an email to yourself with the outlet you submitted to in the subject line of the email, such as Associated Content to keep track of your submissions.
Well, you could do that, but those spreadsheets give me a headache. You could also do an invoice type of thing. Even though you aren't sending them to the people you've submitted to, you could at least have a record of it. OR, you could set up a new, g-mail or yahoo mail account and send yourself and email with the name of where/what you submitted in the subject line. You would have a record of what got sent where. The subject line could say: Associated Content for a story you sent there, or whatever.
La_Bella_Vita
@La_Bella_Vita (598)
• United States
4 Mar 07
that is a really qood question. I'd be interested to know what other people do as well.
kellys3ps
@kellys3ps (3723)
• United States
4 Mar 07
Here are some ideas for minding the details: 1. Spreadsheets 2. Database 3. Word (you can insert a table to make it easier to read) 4. Qucikbooks (limited to financial information)