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It's a new year, and around this house it means new spreadsheets for submission tracking, new books for noting daily word count and new goals. If you're a bit of a Type A personality like I am, you have plenty of things to track and to use as goal settings. Was your goal last year to get an agent? Did your submission log show you submitted to several of them? Do you have word count goals, and if you don't write them down, or use a spreadsheet or some way to track them, how do you know when you've made them? So, with it being a New Year, I'm going to talk about my preferred method for tracking. Submissions: I use an Excel spread sheet. Now that I have the real version of Excel and not Works I'll probably just add an extra worksheet and use the same file. In my spreadsheet I track the following: Date, Name, Publisher, Project, What Sent, Date Response Recv'd, and what Response. So an entry might look like this: One line: 08/13 - Miss Editor -- Great Publisher -- My Awesome Book -- Partial - 11/13 send full Second line: 11/14 - Miss Editor -- Great Publisher -- My Awesome Book -- Full -- 12/25 personal rejection Word Count: I set some pretty hefty word count goals for myself. Even when I worked in an office, I had pretty big goals. Now that I work from home, the goals are even larger. I've tried spreadsheets, but what works for me is to use a datebook. Because I'm pagan and I write a lot of metaphysical inspired things, I use Llewellyn's Witches' Datebook. It has five days on each page with astrological, moon phase, and other magickal info for each day. For example, today, January 2, the moon is in fourth quarter in Scorpio and the power color for today is white. It's a good day to write occult, conspiracy, and other hidden, super secret things. Me, I write what's on the "to do" list, but it's interesting, to me at least, to know the influences. Here, I make manual notes. As much as I love technology there's nothing like a written "to do" list with things crossed off. So in each day's place I'll write something like this: (here's my goals for today, if you're interested, LOL!!) 2K StarMyst 2/1K Ursa Major/1K Candle Magick If I do revisions I'll note... Rev 25 pages of this project, of course using the title or whatever moniker I choose in place of "this project" Money: Ahh, the fun part of this job. I've kind of talked about it, but the new year means new spreadsheets. The earlier you get 2007's data input and filed, the easier your taxes will be. I'll be continuing to use Quicken's Smart Start. I have little books all over my desk. My running training journal (one of my New Year's resolutions is to get back to that), a notebook I was using to write down what I eat (rejoined WW so that book can be set aside) and the day book I use for my writing. I suppose I could put all of this on the computer, but for me, I prefer pen and paper when it comes to certain things. Good luck with all your 2008 goals and resolutions! Don't forget to track them so at the end of the year you can see how far you've come.  
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