I won't claim I'm always pure in this regard. Sometimes, if writing about the distant past, I'll do the old "ancient language translated into contemporary English." But even there I try to avoid slang expressions or sayings; definitely contemporary references and anachronisms. All of those cheapen the experience, I think.
Which is not to say I don't slip up, and my first drafts tend to have a lot of linguistic junk in them (which thankfully some early betas point out), but I try to be consistent with the time/place I'm writing in.
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Date: 2011-06-03 04:44 pm (UTC)Which is not to say I don't slip up, and my first drafts tend to have a lot of linguistic junk in them (which thankfully some early betas point out), but I try to be consistent with the time/place I'm writing in.