If you are like me, there's often a number of projects in the works at any given time. Organizing your writing archive by date can help you keep multiple projects on schedule, and if you don't have a set schedule, at least give you an easy measure of how long a certain piece is taking you.
The article I'm spending the most time on right now is a 1300 word piece about writing, publishing, and marketing e-books. I started this little ditty 5 days ago. I know because I named it 1_12_11MarketingEbooks.doc. I started it assuming I'd give it to Factoidz, in which case I'd be done with it by now. This article's new home is going to be the inbox of a couple of editors from different websites who are looking for new writers. The take home lesson here is that it is okay to spend a considerable amount of time on an article that is used as a writing sample. It is also helpful that I can see when I started the project and know that I should probably finish it up soon!
The way I organize my archive includes a couple of important dates. The first, as I've already discussed, is the date I started writing it. The second is the date it gets published, which I put below the title at the top of the document. This isn't always important, depending on where the article is published, but I'll tell you why I do it. When an article is posted to Factoidz.com, it must be fresh content (not published anywhere else at the time of submission), and it cannot be published anywhere else for 30 days. After that, your article is essentially your property again and you can post it to your blog, or anywhere else you'd like to go with it.
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