Let’s Talk About the Difference Between Submitting a Draft Or a Published Article
The distinction that will affect your article’s visibility
I was going to leave this topic for a newsletter but honestly so many of you have written to me to ask where your newly published article has disappeared to, I decided this couldn’t wait.
Firstly, the difference between a draft and an already published piece is simply that you have written something and then hit ‘publish’ and made it live on your own homepage rather than submitting it to a publication to publish on your behalf with the aim of accessing a wider audience.
Most publications request that you only submit drafts, but here at Modern Women we are happy to publish either. However there is an important distinction I’d like you to all be aware of and make your future publishing decisions based on.
Whenever your article is first published it is given a date stamp. If you then choose to add it to our publication or any other once published by that publication, it will slot into the correct date and time according to what it was originally published as. So for example if you wrote and published a piece today and then submitted it to us and we published it next week, when we did it would slot in behind everything published between…
