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Writing Excuses 6.7: Brainstorming a Cyberpunk Story

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Cyberpunk and the Future

We didn't spend enough time on character. The character needs a conflict, needs a problem and a personality. But we had such fun creating that world though. We're looking at the world. And what you should take away from this is how we tried to take everything and focus it on more of the dystopian plus real world science extrapolated kind of in a scary way mixed with just kind of near future what ifs. All right. Come up with a cyberpunk world and for your seed for it. Think about penguins. Okay. Just don't write happy feet.

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