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sweetenerbyAG t1_je1b5ao wrote

Hi, loving the story so far! Thank you for your hard work. I love the characters and how you give them life, regardless of their importance in the main story.

I just wanted to ask; where did the idea of the story come from, and how did you go about researching elements of Xianxia and cultivation stories? Or did you already have prior experience?

In the future, I would like to write a story of my own with Xianxia elements but my only experience with them is from the books I read (which outside of yours, I have only read one other book that does the genre justice) and was wondering what your process was going about it.

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CasualfarmerBOC OP t1_je1bw60 wrote

The idea of the story was a writing prompt that said "The Cultivator Fucks off and becomes a farmer."

I thought the cultivator having a magic chicken would be hilarious. And thus BOC was born.

And yes, I did read Xianxia and Wuxia stories before I wrote one. The parody comes from a place of love. I do enjoy me some face slapping and defying the heavens, even when I do poke fun at it.

As for writing Xianxia? read. Get to know the tropes, in all their glory and all their horror. Its certainly quite different to english novels I find, and theres nothing quite like it, even machine translated like a lot of them are.

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