https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/ Writing Excuses Transcripts - Dreamwidth Studios Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:29:00 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios wetranscripts community https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/47065.html Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:29:00 GMT https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/47065.html Posted by: <span lj:user='mbarker.livejournal.com' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?userid=92151&amp;t=I'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png' alt='[identity profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://mbarker.livejournal.com/' rel='nofollow'><b>mbarker.livejournal.com</b></a></span><br /><br />Writing Excuses 6.6: Cyberpunk<br /><br />From <a href="http://www.writingexcuses.com/2011/07/10/writing-excuses-6-6-cyberpunk/">http://www.writingexcuses.com/2011/07/10/writing-excuses-6-6-cyberpunk/</a><br /><br />Key points: near-future, Earth-based, internet connectivity, human augmentation, human identity. What does it mean to be human? Independent cobblers, gritty, antiestablishment. Hackers fighting corporations. Street culture of the future. East vs. West culture clash. Is popular cyberpunk an oxymoron? Cyber wonder, but also cautionary tales. World weariness. Dystopia. "We got our wish and now we're all monsters."&nbsp; Fear of corporations, government, runaway technology. The Singularity. <br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/47065.html#cutid1">electronic shades and other giggles</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br />[Brandon] All right. Well, let's go and do a writing prompt. Does anyone have one they want to throw at us?<br />[Howard] I... I've got one. Playing off of the patches stuff, we have a cyberpunk setting in which tattoos are the equivalent of implants, and you've got somebody who gets a tattoo, and for some reason, they now need to have that tattoo removed. Obsolescence, or a hack, or something. But, tattoo removal.<br />[Brandon] Your tattoo got hacked.<br />[Howard] Your tattoo got hacked.<br />[Dan] Nice. I digg it.<br />[Brandon] All right. This has been Writing Excuses. You're out of excuses, now go write.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=wetranscripts&ditemid=47065" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/47065.html dystopia near-future human augmentation human identity earth-based street culture cyberpunk pop internet connectivity cautionary tales corporations gritty singularity hackers sweaty public ext_88293 0 https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/35097.html Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:42:00 GMT https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/35097.html Posted by: <span lj:user='mbarker.livejournal.com' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?userid=92151&amp;t=I'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png' alt='[identity profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://mbarker.livejournal.com/' rel='nofollow'><b>mbarker.livejournal.com</b></a></span><br /><br />Writing Season Four Episode 30: World Building the Future<br /><br />From <a href="http://www.writingexcuses.com/2010/08/01/writing-excuses-4-30-worldbuilding-the-future/">http://www.writingexcuses.com/2010/08/01/writing-excuses-4-30-worldbuilding-the-future/</a><br /><br />Key Points: A guiding decision -- is the future of your story comprehensible or not? Post-singularity? Consider consequences. Strategies: worst-case scenario, best-case scenario, consider the human element, what's cool. Are you telling character-driven stories or idea stories? Can you work backward -- what story do you want to tell, now what framework does that imply?<br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/35097.html#cutid1">Unrolling the future...</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br />[Brandon] We have a writing prompt. I think we have a writing prompt that will come magically to us from the ether. You are instructed to write your story based on this concept, and here it is.<br />[Unearthly voice] Oh, no, it's the were-cuttlefish! [strange chomping noises] You are out of excuses and time. Now go write quickly before it gets you. [more strange chomping noises] [Pop! Pop!]<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=wetranscripts&ditemid=35097" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/35097.html future strategies character-driven consequences ideas singularity technology worldbuilding transformed public ext_88293 0