Looking for a solution where a person enters a project only for reporting purposes.

As we have evolved over time with Workfront, we have found that it's only the design/creative tasks that we want to task and use for project management.

But we still want to "count" the projects that the writers do - we just don't want them to have to create a complicated project with tasks they have to mark off, as this is causing additional work for them (they already were managing their work in other ways).

Solution Ideas?