Organizing Your Writing Folders Saves Time and Earns Money

One Way to Organize Your Writing

When writing for multiple publishers and publications it is important to have an organizational system to minimize submission errors and maximize earnings. I am sure that most content producers at Associated Content already have a system for organizing their articles, especially those who are prolific writers and submit to many publishers.

I am usually a pretty effective organizer when I set my mind to it, but unfortunately I hadn't quite set my mind to it prior to yesterday, when I thought that I had made a silly error and emailed the Content Managers about the mistake that I really had not made. While I was glad that I had not made the error, I realized that I easily could have, because I hadn't yet taken the time to fully organize. Being new to Associated Content and online publishing, I was fortunate to have this happen now, because organizing now is likely to save me some headache and embarrassment down the road.

The mistake I thought I had made was to publish an article elsewhere, after having accepted an offer from AC for an article I thought I had submitted as "exclusive." I wrote the Content Managers about the error then realized that I had, in fact, submitted the article as "nonexclusive." I then had to write and ask them to ignore my previous email. You know I felt like quite the idiot! I don't know if anyone at Associated Content has had a similar experience, but given my snafu I can see it happening to a content producer who is new to the AC community. I searched the AC library and the forum to see if something had been published about organizing articles, but I couldn't find one. As such, I thought it might be helpful to write a piece that could help someone else avert a potentially embarrassing and legally challenging situation.