What resources do you guys rely on when writing in Wuxia/Xianxia genres?? Here's mine!

[DaoTian_X]

Any websites, books, or even personal notes you'd recommend?
Here's Mine: https://immortalmountain.wordpress.com/glossary/wuxia-xianxia-xuanhuan-terms/

Share your tools and help each other create even more epic stories!

 

[Corty]

All the disappointments that I had while reading Wuxia/Xianxia works. Especially Er Gen's endings. I vowed to myself to never do what he does.

 

[FrankieCheng]

Honestly?
Cantonese dictionary: https://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/
Mandarin dictionary: https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-english-pinyin-dictionary.php

 

[Phantonym]

What genre is that?

 

[CharlesEBrown]

What genre is that?

Martial arts/cultivation I think.

 

[Phantonym]

Martial arts/cultivation I think.

ok ty

 

[CharlesEBrown]

ok ty

If I understand correctly, Wuxia is the "official" term for "wire-fu" effects in movies - characters fighting up walls, bouncing off of leaves, cutting drops of water in half stuff. Xanxia is the written form. But I may have this wrong.

 

[Phantonym]

If I understand correctly, Wuxia is the "official" term for "wire-fu" effects in movies - characters fighting up walls, bouncing off of leaves, cutting drops of water in half stuff. Xanxia is the written form. But I may have this wrong.

Oh wow

 

[beast_regards]

I don't need sources.

I approach it like the Ubisoft approaches history - i.e. I am making things up then claim experts did it!