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 No.33370

Hi guys i plan to write a cyberpunk story and i like to hear our opinions what i should definitely put in my story and what kind of stuff i shoud think about when i write the story?

The story will be like the "song of fire and ice" books. That should mean i will write the story out of many perspectives of many different characters. I still look for characters for my story.

Until now there are the following characters:

Hacker (male)

Runner/Assassin (female)

Megacorps Security-Chief (male)

CEO (male)

I hope you like to help me, i would love to hear your ideas and opinions.

 No.33390

Please not another Mary Sue post-apocalyptic novel with neon lights.

My question is what are you going to do to make your story worth reading instead of all the established cyberpunk works?


 No.33411

>>33390

well… i will not center the story around one perspective and around one main character. there will be a hand full of characters, living an own life and manage there own problems. there storys will impair the storys of the other characters .

there should not be any kind of mary sue character. the whole world will be dark and gritty. i will show the privat life of the characters and how there actions have effects on the life of the other characters…

thats tha main idea


 No.33417

>>33411

Maybe keep the backdrop but avoid the stereotypes. Hacker, assassin girl, cyber thug, and CEO are stock. If you have a main theme you want this story to tell, morality play about futility, warning about the future, satire on modern society, re-imagining of an ancient legend, whatever, you can then create characters and settings to serve that purpose. You shouldn't use "cyberpunk" for its own sake but as a toolset.

Also lots of sex and violence


 No.33418

There is a story thread already, check catalog


 No.33423

I already feel awful for whoever you get to edit your writing, holy shit.


 No.33435

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>>33370

>Uses GoT as a comparison

>The most basic and overused cyberpunk characters

>Can't grammar for shit

>Doesn't look at the catalog

Don't ever post here again.


 No.33440

>>33370

Is this a reasonable crafted troll/joke attempt?

If so, your post was mildly amusing.


 No.33900

OP, it sounds like your story idea would be better served as a Shadowrun campaign to GM for other players. Attempting to make an actual original novel with a setup that hackneyed is going to land you in a world of pain.


 No.33909

>>33370

Bruh, GoT is as cyber as a shovel.

The Batman universe would be a better alternative, sans superheroes and other shit

Actually use a small town as the main/initial setting. Go wild with your imagination, write about the evolution a small rural community goes through during an age of rapid technological acceleration. Have your characters be a store owner, farmer, writer, a sick elderly person, and a born cripple. Rather than the shitty usual CEO, detective, soldier, cop, merc, whatever


 No.33910

>>33370

the fuck is this shit

>actually planning on doing X books in a series

the single greatest downfall of a writer

not like OP has any writing skills, given that grammar


 No.34022

>Runner/Assassin (female)

Let me guess, she has colored hair?


 No.34051

>>34022

No, finger knives


 No.34066

>>34022

y bcoz she a degenerate xDDDDDDDDD


 No.34473

>>34066

You can't tell her how to live her life!!!1!




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