Tracking Submissions and Why

You're writing. You're writing and writing and writing and finishing the stories--that's important--and polishing them and having them looked over by people who can tell you the truth and you're not getting your feelings hurt or your ego slain. You have what we call a backlog or an inventory of pieces to submit. You can see that you would need to keep track of what is where.

You've written one story. It's polished as shiny as you can polish it. It's totally ready to send somewhere. You think i...