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Using a Simple Spreadsheet to Organize Your Writing
How to keep track of everything without wasting time
If you are like me, you want the bulk of your productive time to go towards writing excellent content and building a reader base. That’s what matters if you want to grow as a writer. But there comes a point fairly early on where you find yourself wasting a fair bit of time just trying to keep track of what you‘ve already done.
My personal tipping point was when I realized I was regularly spending precious time scrolling through all the comments I had left for other writers trying to find links to my stories under the published tab. There had to be a better way.
Why a spreadsheet?
I decided to use a spreadsheet to get organized because I love the flexibility of designing something that gathers just the information I want to keep track of and lets me look at it and analyze it easily.
The perfect spreadsheet for you will not look like my spreadsheet because you are not me. I’m going to share the nitty-gritty here so that you can learn from my thought process as well as my end product and hopefully glean a few tips that are useful to you.
I chose to use google sheets because I like to keep my spreadsheet open as a tab while I’m working…
