Xianxia Handbook: Writing Authentic Conversations

Xianxia dialogue breaks in two predictable ways: the waxwork voice, where every immortal drones in the same faux-classical solemnity, and the anachronism, the three-hundred-year-old sword cultivator who says "e;no worries"e; and shatters the illusion in a sentence. The fix is rarely archaic vocabulary — it is register. Writing Authentic Conversations is the seventh volume of The Xianxia Handbook, ...