I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir, but don’t forget to back up your screenplay work. I unfortunately just lost access to the main laptop I work on - it broke! Luckily I had it all backed up, but you never know when your device might give up on you.
Screenwriting : Back up all your work! by Nikita Simpson
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So true! Thanks for the reminder. Cloud backup has saved my scripts countless times.
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You're right, Nikita Simpson. You never know. Glad you had it all backed up! I make a backup copy of a script, treatment, etc., and I email things to myself. I also have a USB cord that plugs into my phone.
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Maurice Vaughan that’s a great idea about emailing it to myself. I never thought of that. I’m going to do that for everything now. Thank you!!
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Phuc Quang Vu Dao anytime! glad you’re on top of it. and I’d love to collaborate. I’m currently working on a thriller set in Prague. partly based on my own experiences! Pop me a message. I’d love to chat
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I just realised I said crowd instead of choir! oops
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You're welcome, Nikita Simpson.
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Whenever I write poems, lyrics and plays, I save some in email. Most I save to the cloud, my quantum poetry is saved on both allpoetry and youtube. I save all my plays on allpoetry as well. That way, each time one of my computers in the past has gone kaput on me, I have a way of accessing all my work.
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I had that happen right as I finished a script for a fellowship submission deadline! I had to stay up and rewrite it before 11 Am the next day. Glad you had a backup!!
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I have am the tiniest little usb drive you can find - it just lives in my laptop and when I take it places in my pack I just make sure it’s facing up so it won’t bend the port. it’s only twice the size of my mouse receiver. just get a good enough brand. lol.
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So true! I have personally lost full scripts after dropping a glass of water on my laptop. It's excruciating. The worst was a paid assignment where the only copy I had saved was a physical one, so I had to painstakingly re-type the whole thing out word after word. I nearly died that day and swore to use cloud drives from then on. iCloud, Dropbox, and Google drive are great for backing everything up and avoiding the brutality of lost creativity.