Overview and Getting Started

The Writer’s Mission Control Center can do it all, so don’t feel like you have to use everything!

The sections are based on three aspects of the writing life:

Being a writer

This is your private practice. You, your pen, your computer, your books. No one can ever take this away from you.

Sections in Being a writer:

  • Dashboard

  • Writer’s Profile

  • Creative Works

Getting published

Pitches, queries, rejection, rejection, acceptances! You may publish for money or for personal fulfillment.

Sections in Getting published:

  • Publications List

  • Submission Tracker

  • Submission Factory

Your writing career

If you plan to make a living off writing, publishing, teaching, freelancing, and hustling. This is the area for you.

Sections in Your writing career:

  • Contacts

  • Companies & Orgs

  • Pitch Writer

  • Projects'

  • Project Manager

  • Opportunities

  • Clients

First items to complete:

  1. Fill out the Writer’s Profile. The items you select here will inform how the rest of the sheet operates.

  2. Add 5 story ideas to the Creative Works section. Enter a working title, then under Stage, select Idea.

  3. Add 5 publications you want to write for in the Publications List. Don’t worry about filling out every single detail for each one.