Master the Art of Submitting: The Secret to Thriving as a Writer Without Burning Out
Save these materials. Once you’ve sent a piece through a round of submissions, there is no guarantee you’ll get accepted. But you might still love the piece. With these materials in place, you can sit down and submit to another 20 magazines in under an hour. Make a folder system that works — maybe one for each piece, with subfolders for different versions. There are loads of tutorials out there on how to best organize files. They’re doing God’s work (assuming God is a huge nerd). However you do it, the goal is to eliminate decision fatigue and reduce repetitive formatting tasks that drain your creative energy.
