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red_satin_dollMy sweetie is not too fond of the idea of me creating and storing Pages docs (the Mac version of Word) on her laptop, now our only computer; she's worried about it filling up etc. (I love that woman, oh how I do, but....ever seen the scene in the movie The Kids Are Alright re: "micromanaging"? That's pretty much us.)
So I'd like to have a place where I can create, edit and store documents online and store them there, now that I've just filled up another notebook with fic drafts and meta notes; something along the lines of Photobucket, but for documents rather than photos.
FYI: the simpler the better. I've heard of iCloud and still have no idea what it is (despite <lj user=comlodge>'s careful explanation of it); I'm pretty computer savvy in some ways but most of y'all are way ahead of me in a lot of other areas. Thanks muchly!
So I'd like to have a place where I can create, edit and store documents online and store them there, now that I've just filled up another notebook with fic drafts and meta notes; something along the lines of Photobucket, but for documents rather than photos.
FYI: the simpler the better. I've heard of iCloud and still have no idea what it is (despite <lj user=comlodge>'s careful explanation of it); I'm pretty computer savvy in some ways but most of y'all are way ahead of me in a lot of other areas. Thanks muchly!
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Date: 2013-10-06 07:00 pm (UTC)Why don't you just get an external drive and save everything there? It won't impact on the laptop as you just unplug it! And the bonus is that if you get another computer there will be no having to move stuff around.
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Date: 2013-10-07 06:07 pm (UTC)ETA: it's also possible that I'm slightly paranoid.
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Date: 2013-10-07 07:05 pm (UTC)I'm assuming that you don't leave docs on them long before you get things posted? (Because I have this vision of you as this super-duper prolific, accomplished and organized Writer. 'cause a fangirl needs heros. Don't smash my vision and break my little heart btw - just roll with it.)
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Date: 2013-10-07 08:08 pm (UTC)Huh. We had ours hanging off mirrors and a lamp switch, so PROBABLY not the best way to care of them in hindsight.;)
I'll give them another go sometimes.
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Date: 2013-10-07 12:51 am (UTC)(Either that, or I just use gmail to mail stuff to myself.)
This is what I do.
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Date: 2013-10-07 05:53 pm (UTC)Maybe I need to google this or call the apple store?
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Date: 2013-10-06 08:03 pm (UTC)Gabrielle
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Date: 2013-10-07 06:06 pm (UTC)Gabrielle
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Date: 2013-10-07 06:10 pm (UTC)And you are not the least bit an idiot.
Gabrielle
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Date: 2013-10-07 06:17 pm (UTC)ETA: I GOT IT! THANK YOU! *bounces up and down* I feel like a kid at Christmas. It really is nifty - formatting and the whole ball o' wax!
And I wasn't fishing for a compliment, honest. But I won't refuse it, either. that would just be rude. :)
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Date: 2013-10-06 09:05 pm (UTC)If you want to preserve the formatting for the app you're used to composing in, I'd say Dropbox. That's also free.
With either Google Drive or Dropbox, you can retrieve your documents from any computer, work on them, and save them back to your online storage space. No carrying around disks or flash drives!
ETA: Reading through the other comments prompts me to add: tangible storage like external drives, thumb drives or CDs are okay, but I'd caution against only using physical storage. Too easy to lose them or have them destroyed.
If you like multiple backups (and are organized enough to keep track of which version of each document is backed up where), why not do all three: an inexpensive thumb drive you can keep on your keychain, plus Dropbox, plus Google Drive?
That way, even if the disaster genii strikes two of your storage spaces in the same week, you'd still have a third.
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Date: 2013-10-07 06:14 pm (UTC)Oh absolutely. thumb drives remind me of floppies in how delicate they are - I've had one I barely used just stop functioning one day. I use them to temporarily transfer information but not for storage.
and are organized enough to keep track of which version of each document is backed up where
Hah I wish I were. but I do like having things in multiple places; keeping track of which is where is probably wishful thinking for me with my brain the way it is. The fire taught and re-taught me a few hard lessons. It's like exercise, you have to keep from getting lazy and letting it slide.
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Date: 2013-10-07 07:09 pm (UTC)Back when I was collaborating on a WIP in the Moulin Rouge category with a friend on ff.net we used to email back and forth and man, was it a mess - but neither one of us was very organized. Two writers with ADD = a thousand docs between us and not a lot getting done.
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Date: 2013-10-07 08:40 pm (UTC)May I ask what the subject/story/genre is?
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Date: 2013-10-08 06:49 pm (UTC)Links! Shiny! I just followed the link to your AO3 page and began reading so FYI - you're going to get a bunch of comments in your email from me. (I have that tendency - read a whole bunch of a particular author's stories in one sitting.)
And I have heard of NaNoWriMo. I've never done it but a friend of mine, Kendra Saunders (who has published several novels and has another one just coming out "Death and Mr Right") has done it.
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Date: 2013-10-08 07:25 pm (UTC)Mostly it's high-level / world stuff that's similar: a girl with superpowers, a group that provides knowledge back-up. I don't believe Joss ever put the Holy Grail into his stories and it will feature fairly heavily in my first novel. Also no evil-angels in his verse, in fact no angels at all. ;-)
I saw all the AO3 comments. Fun! ;-)
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Date: 2013-10-08 08:29 pm (UTC)I have toyed with the idea of doing meta on the Christian imagery in Prophecy Girl and The Gift re: Buffy and Dawn primarily. Joss may be an "atheist" but he is shaped by the culture he grew up in as we all are, and to speak to a particular audience it's necessary to use the imagery and symbolism we share in common. In the past 30 years though I think it's more openly acknowledged by certain artists as "homages" rather than stealing (as a way to avoid lawsuits?): think of Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge or just about anything by Quentin Tarantino. The difference nowadays is the open acknowledgement of the "theft", and a certain post-modern "ironic" stance.
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Date: 2013-10-08 09:02 pm (UTC)What was Luhrmann homaging (is that a verb?) in Moulin Rouge? I love that movie but I don't believe I ever realized it was referencing another movie. Unless you're referring to the music. I thought that was very clever, using a variety of recognizable songs one after the other like that to enhance the chaotic mood of the scene.
And great examples of "borrowing". Mine were Twilight and 50 Shades! I feel as if I'm in much better company now! ;-)
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Date: 2013-10-09 02:32 pm (UTC)May I join the dance? :)
What was Luhrmann homaging (is that a verb?) in Moulin Rouge?
Oh goodness do you have an hour or so? These are some things just off the top of my head:
-Christian's storyline borrows heavily from the myth of Orpheus.
-Satine's story in the original draft of the script (very different from the movie) borrowed heavily from Alexendar Dumas' La Dame Aux Camillas, about a dying courtesan; which was later adapted as the opera La Traviata (Luhrmann has directed stage versions of it), as well as the movie Camille with Greta Garbo. (Most of that material was cut; in the original Satine had a son and had a history with Christian's father - no it didn't make sense to me when I read it - but Luhrmann decided to cut most of that out to focus on Christian's story.)
-The red satin dress ("smoldering temptress") is a direct homage to the black sheath gown worn by Rita Hayworth in the movie for the musical number "Put the Blame on Mame" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZn86sSWtEQ
-The Sound of Music in the sequence where Christian first meets the Bohemians and that's the first song that pours out of his mouth
-"Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" from the stage play "Gentlemen Prefer Blonds" with Carol Channing that was adapted into the 1953 movie and sung by Marilyn Monroe, in the number that was also ripped off for Madonna's "Material Girl" video - so that number self-consciously references both Monroe and Madonna. (Satine was pretty much designed as a stand-in/homage to all of the great movie and pop music divas of the last 60 years.) http://vimeo.com/56710275
I'd have to look it up to add more, I haven't watched it or the featurettes in ages. (I got the box set and it pretty much set the standard for 'deluxe' special features, or at least until LoTR came along.)