Life Write Now

Since I haven’t submitted anything in a while – five years at least – I haven’t had the need to track anything. If there’s nothing out there there’s nothing to monitor, nothing to follow up on. Things have changed. I’m submitting again. One chapter out to an agent already and more submissions will be going out this year. So I wanted to start keeping tabs on things again.

I pulled out my copy of Write Again the submission tracking software. I’m not a reviewer. And granted this is the only tracking software I’ve used with the exception of my own Excel spreadsheets. But I do love it. It has so much I can do. I haven’t used it in over 5 years. Last thing I submitted was a novel targeted to Blaze. Since that rejection I’ve been working on other things. Scripts, non romance type books with plenty of murder and mayhem. And this year the occasional short story. I’m pleased to announce I have now finished a second short story. So, I decided I needed to start using Write Again again. I installed it on my laptop last night. I didn’t want to lug out my old desktop.

I could play with new software all night. Okay, so it’s not really new, I used it before, but it’s been so long it felt like new. I was able to pull up my old information from the backup of the database I had done. Now the real fun begins. Getting all my market and contact information in the software can take some time. I want to start inputting all that this weekend. And update it with all my new projects.

Let’s see, what can I do with it? I can keep track of my progress on all of my projects. It has a task manager so I can see how much of each task I have completed. I can track my submissions and be reminded when I should be expecting a response. I can track deadlines. It will send me notices if a deadline is coming up. It can keep track of how much it costs me to send out submissions and how much I’ve made per project. I can add my own genres if a genre isn’t in the list provided. I can have it start with start up which I haven’t done yet but will change that tonight. If you submit a lot and need to keep track of where everything is, what responses are due, what deadlines you have, I highly recommend it.

I’m very excited to be using it again. I will be (fingers crossed) emailing a submission tomorrow and I will be inputting that into the software!

Now all I need is an actual office again and I will be one happy writer.

Off to work.

Until next time…

Cindy