Ultimate Article Strategy... Or not? ALL WARRIORS

I am building my second income source and plan to do it mostly from articles. Hoping to get some input from the ALL WARRIORS.

I was laying in bed this morning day dreaming of seo and link building (thats when you know your in trouble) used to daydream about girls, now its google bots and clickbank! Anyways I wanted to run by an idea for my article linking campaign. Bear with me.

So lets say I have my main site I am going to promote. For now no deep linking just the homepage and some directly off the homepage. I write an article for keyword ABC. I write 6 or 7 unique articles around the same theme for keyword ABC.

I then MANUALLY submit them to the top 6 or 7 article directories. The reason I want to manually submit them is because I've found on many sites you can put anchor text within the body of your article where it is surrounded by rich LSI words instead of just in the resource box. I will have each anchor text a little different for each article.

I wait for all articles to be approved and go live. THEN I go over to Submit Your Article and for those of you familiar I get to put in an article and then modify it so it creates a dozen VERY unique articles that are 50-80% unique. So I will put in one of the ABC articles already written. And generate dozens of copies.

Submit Your Article then allows you to make multiple resource boxes. So what I was gonna do create 6 or 7 resource boxes and link to those previous articles I wrote and manually submitted.

I will be outsourcing this to my virtual assistant so really this strategy comes down to how effective it might be. Otherwise I can just have her submit it to Submit Your Article and save the step of manually submitting but I thought having the anchor text within the article body would be very effective. Also submit your article doesn't submit that many articles with the anchor and instead usually does a lot of the http://www.abc.com stuff.

So anyways can I please get some input on this strategy. So 2 main questions
1. Would the strategy be much more effective than just using SYA
2. What are the MUST SUBMIT to article directories. Don't want to waste time submitting to no follows or such. Can someone please tell me the ones that I DEFINITELY need to include in my list. Even if it's more than 6 or 7.

thanks