Re: Obsolete Skills
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Philuva,
Researching information without the Internet!
It's hard to imagine the way we had to write reports looking up stuff in card catalogs and microfilm and stuff at the library. Oh man, that sucked. The difference between being good at that or not was incredible in terms of how long it took to get a report or research paper done.
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I always enjoyed going to the library and doing research...it was like I was solving a mystery...
I remember writing a screenplay that took place in the Amazon among El Dorado and The Lost City of Gold - beforehand, I had to do a lot of research on the subject matter. I got to go to the Library of Congress in DC and search to my heart's content.
Research always helped me come up with plot points and surprising facts I could then put in my screenplays.
I miss it.
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