Today, I carefully read the guidance text of my editor-in-charge about the new book, and the part of Xianxia feels very pertinent and has benefited a lot, so I am transcribed here-

"The human face does not know where to go, and the peach blossoms are still smiling in the spring breeze. ”

This is my opinion on Xianxiawen today. Xianxia has become too much, and Xianxia's readers' tastes have become too much. But it still has its own charm, but it needs a new way of thinking and interpreting it.

The style of Xianxia is now divided into two categories: old-school and new-school, and Weijing is distinct.

The so-called old-fashioned refers to the traditional Xianxia texts with a strong atmosphere of cultivating immortals and becoming enlightened, these Xianxia texts have good language skills, beautiful writing, magnificent patterns, ups and downs of the plot, and characters of fairy wind and bones, and are filled with an atmosphere of being out of the world. The word "Wenqing" can be used to explain its characteristics. Representative works include "Sou Shen Ji", "Ethereal Journey", "The Legend of Mortal Immortals" and so on.

The so-called new school refers to the same on the basis of the core "cultivation of immortals" of the old school, adding some witty and humorous elements, including the light style Xianxia formed by integrating some fantasy and urban golden fingers. Compared with the old-school Xianxia text, the overall style has a very obvious fast-food change, which is more in line with the objective needs of the current readers' young age, time fragmentation, and shallow reading. For example, chestnuts: "The Strongest Family Master", "The Fairy King", "I Became a Defensive Weapon" and so on. The book for example is very typical, and you can peruse the tens of thousands of fonts at the beginning.

Today's readers' tastes are shifting from the old school to the new school.

Therefore, I will not elaborate on the traditional old-school Xianxia texts, and authors who are accustomed to writing traditional Xianxia texts, please keep one thing in mind: weaken the routines and strengthen the characters and plots.

The following mainly mentions what matters need to be paid attention to when writing a new school of Xianxia essays, so as to better cater to the interests of current readers.

Mean.

Here, moderation does not mean writing a bland novel.

The golden mean refers to the way to take the old school and the new school. Here, it refers to taking the bones of the old-school Xianxia text and the skin and flesh of the new-school writing, and combining the two.

Xianxia needs bones, and its bones are generally composed of two parts:

1. The main line of cultivating immortals

2. Cultivation (upgrading) system

Among them, 2 includes the two parts of "cultivation exercises/systems" and "ability upgrade embodiment". Traditional Xianxia texts like to write about a treasure or cheats, and then the protagonist relies on the treasures or cheats to cultivate. The new school of Xianxia gradually transferred to the protagonist to directly get a golden finger to help cultivate immortals, such as "I Became a Defensive Magic Weapon" in which the protagonist directly became a defensive magic weapon, the only cultivation method is to be beaten, the more others beat him to death, the faster his strength will improve. The upgrade of ability reflects that as the level of cultivation increases, the ability of the corresponding protagonist will also rise.

Focusing on the bones of the main line of cultivating immortals and the cultivation (upgrading) system, pasting the fast-paced plot of pretending to be forced to slap the face (the plot needs to serve the cultivation of immortals, this is meat), and putting on a relaxed and humorous style (this is skin), forming a completely different style from traditional Xianxia.

And the bones here are not the bones of the old-school Xianxia Wen. The protagonist can cultivate immortals in the city, cultivate immortals in another world, cultivate immortals with a system, cultivate immortals directly with the second dimension, and cultivate immortals in the last days, all of which can be. It is not only in the ancient world, in a cave with a paradise, that you can cultivate immortals. I hope everyone understands this kind of core of cultivating immortals with a certain subversive thought.

On Xianxia's golden finger, there is also a more unique place, which is that you can borrow ancient mythological characters to set the characters. For example, "Marshal Tianpeng" and so on. Or the character itself is not a rebirth of a mythological character, but in the shaping of the character and image, the image momentum of the mythical character is applied to make the image of the character more plump, which is also a writing technique of image mapping, such as "The Biography of the Great Sage".

To summarize the key points: combining the traditional Xianxia routine, and having a new golden finger, or a new style of humorous Xianxia, it is easier to produce results. Among them, the golden finger and humorous style are all possessed, and the best of both worlds is the best. Take a step back, and only have a humorous style or a new golden finger, you can also try it. If it's a literary writer, don't build yì to write.

The Xianxia authors who think that their writing is very good have gone forward and sacrificed heroically on the road of the old-school literary youth Xianxia. Wenqing, big don't.

You can learn from it.