Why I write urban fantasy

Making the urban less mundane. I'm back nonexistent readers! After a week away from the typing's, I'm back! New keyboard, mechanical gaming blue switch, it's oh so clicky and just makes me wanna type! Getting used to it is a feat, and obviously I've been slacking in the blogging, I can't honestly say why. A grim melancholy has befallen me, I've been tired for no good reason, depressed and become lazy. I hate it! So this, today, is an attempt to break out of it and return to penning my second fiction novel in: The Grave Report, series. Upon much reflecting, I thought I'd discuss, (more for my benefit than yours, since you lot don't exist) why I love/write urban fantasy so much.

I don't know where exactly to start but I figure any starting point is better than none, right? So I'll start here! With how much I love the genre and why. As for how much I love it, it's a lot! Duh. But why? Well, good question me. Maybe it's because I grew up on so much traditional fantasy and sci fi. As amazing as they were, they were never now! They were always in some far off long ago place way back when, or in a distant future that could barely be experienced. Imagined, yes. Experienced, no. Maybe it's different for other people, not for me. That's when urban fantasy entered my life, things like Narnia, Harry Potter, Neil Gaiman's Stardust and Neverwhere and of course, Jim Butcher's Dresden Files. Of course the locales and times differ, but they were/ are still close enough to modern times for me to truly be able to get lost in them!

These were books that took place in a time and environment much like my own! I could look out the window to the nearby park and imagine that that, that, was gateway to another world like a step into the never never! Or crossing over a long field I'd fall into Faerie like in Gaiman's Stardust. That all these worlds existed today, a stones throw away from our own. One step and I could be propelled into all those realms of fantasy I've loved for so long. Now I have a chance to do that for others! Whilst yes, I do write for myself, I love it, am in love with it and it's the cure for my depression. I want to share it, my writing that is, not the depression part. Had to make that clear. I want to give a piece of my imagination to others to be able to play with, delve into and explore. And I want to make the modern day, the urban, the all around us and mundane, a little less so. I want to make magic around us! I want people to re-explore and re-imagine their surroundings! 

Why I write urban fantasy is that it makes my own life feel a little better, a little more worthwhile and less dull. It tinges the normal with the super normal, it makes things less boring. My life gets a new vibrancy, and that's why I love urban fantasy and will hopefully be keep writing something in that genre until my last day. Whether I'm building intricate worlds and massive series, or just penning off one last one off novel. I will always love and write urban fantasy. Will always love and cherish, the works of Gaiman, Lewis, Butcher and more!

Now that I've warmed up, it's time to continue slogging away in the mud and grit on the rough draft of my own urban fantasy, the second novel in :The Grave Report.

if you haven't checked it out, please do so! the first novel is titled : Grave Beginnings! Tis on amazon, go find read and enjoy!