Go database, go!

My old system

I've been thinking for two weeks now, that I ought to take a second run at getting some non-fiction stories for Passion for Ghosts. I knew shortly after, how I would go about it and that I'd want to notify the current GGP authors.

I had just one problem: an incomplete contact list. Well, this has been a big problem actually as I needed it for other things (like payments and, the very technical "other stuff.")

However, the way I was going about building the contact list-- searching for correspondences to get the email and insert the most infective method here, blah, blah, blah.

  Obviously, the easiest way would be to remember to add writers to the contact list but remembering to that is kind of like when I was fourteen and I kept getting in trouble for forgetting to turn shower back to faucet. I still forget despite countless accidental showers (see Korean bathroom) that has resulted in becoming moderately waterlogged to saturated (it really sucks when this happens before work). Okay, so I've digressed.

Two weeks ago when I started setting up the database in-between editing, I had no idea in what ways it might be useful. I had an idea there were, and I'm going to get technical here (as if this joke wasn't already old) "things" and "stuff."

My new system. See it has pretty colors.

So to make this long story end, the database enabled me to create a contact list in under an hour instead of days. I also was able to fix some pen names and because it's a database, what I changed in one place, has been updated on other linked whatchamacallits. This is another extremely technical publishing term.