Miss the deadline and your paper sits for six months. Venue prestige, reviewer fit, all of it is secondary to the calendar.
- Plan backwards: deadline minus a month of writing minus two weeks of figure-redoing equals experiment deadline - Organize by month, not by venue; the month view shows the real choice (March here, or September at the better fit) - Build in the rebuttal buffer; the deadline is three dates in a trench coat - Watch the timezone trap: most are anywhere-on-earth, a few mean their local timezone and mean it - Track with an app that pings you at thirty days, fourteen days, and the morning of
VenueFit is free and lists paper submission deadlines by month, so the calendar does the nagging for you.