ScribbleSquid and Submission Tracking

ScribbleSquid is great for managing story critiques but there are other things that this powerful tool can help with.  In this article we will be discussing submission tracking. 

It is often the case that short story writers need to submit stories to only one publication at a time.  If it’s rejected, only then can they submit it to another publication.  As mentioned in the previous post, managing one or two of these interactions is not a problem.  But once you start tracking multiple stories at once, things can get a little more complicated. 

With submission tracking in ScribbleSquid, keeping track of which stories have been submitted is really easy.  In your stories dashboard, just start a new submission tracker.  Choose from the existing list of publishers or add a new one. Once you’ve added the tracker you can update the state of that submission over time.  For example, if you get a rejection you can add that to the tracker and paste in the contents of the submission letter. 

Over time you can personally track which publications were the most receptive to your stories.  But ScribbleSquid can go a step further and give you a sense of which publications accepted the most stories across all ScribbleSquid users.  By anonymously collecting information like acceptance rates, publication details and story information, ScribbleSquid can crunch that data and give you some ideas of where it would be best to shop around your stories.

In the end, Submission Tracking is a purely optional feature that can take over some of the tedium involved in professional writing and let you focus more on the creative process.