The Organized Writer: The Benefits of Making a ‘Submission Spreadsheet’

How to make and use a spreadsheet to manage simultaneous submissions, know your acceptance rates, and more

C. E. Janecek
The Writing Cooperative
6 min readAug 10, 2023

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Five years ago, one of my close friends in college told me about the “100 rejections challenge” for creative writers. Writers get rejected all the time, so this goal…

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