Showing posts with label How Professional Writers Approach Deadlines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label How Professional Writers Approach Deadlines. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

How Professional Writers Approach Deadlines


by DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills

Deadlines tend to have a bad reputation. Editors require writers to submit contracted work on a specific day, and that can be a difficult task. But let me re-phrase that: editors require creative, out-of-the-box thinkers to submit a writing project on a specific date. Not a week or months later. If a writer labored in any other profession, they’d be dismissed for not completing their contracted work. 

Deadlines are a good thing for editors! This allows them to stay on schedule with the publishing house as they work through all areas to ensure the project is perfected for readers.