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# Editorial calendar spreadsheet
- URL: https://letterharbor-demo.synaps.media/library/editorial-calendar-spreadsheet/
- Published: 2026-10-12T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-26T22:26:22.000Z
- Description: A twelve-week planning sheet with columns that keep ideas, drafts and sponsors from colliding.
- Author: Avery Lin
- Tags: Templates, #resource

An editorial calendar is less about planning far ahead and more about seeing collisions early: two heavy issues in a row, a sponsor booked into a holiday week, a series that stalls halfway.

## Columns

- **Send date** — one row per issue, twelve weeks ahead.
- **Working title** — rough is fine.
- **Main piece** — the one thing the issue exists to deliver.
- **Status** — idea, outlined, drafted, edited, scheduled.
- **Sponsor** — name and whether copy has arrived.
- **Links to library** — which resources this issue can point to.
- **Notes** — holidays, travel, anything that will make the week harder.

## How to use it

1. Every Friday, move each row's status forward honestly.
2. Keep at least two rows at "drafted" or later. That is your buffer.
3. When a row has sat at "idea" for three weeks, delete it or swap it with something you want to write.

## Colour coding (optional)

Shade sponsored issues in one colour and series in another. At a glance you can see whether the next month is balanced.

## A note on ambition

Plan twelve weeks; commit to four. The calendar exists to protect your sending day, not to fill every slot with your best idea.