#writeblr questions

@writeblrsupport shared some questions today with a holiday greeting and I do love questions! Here's their post

How many wips have you worked on this year?

Too many. Six seriously, the rest have just been ideas.

How many wips have you completed?

None. Embarassing. I should have at least one finished but I don't.

Are you proud? ( you should be!)

Nope. No reason to be. Didn't even get a draft made for NaNo and just wrote fanfic. Still not a single wip completed.

What are your plans for the new year/2023 in general?

That depends on if I have a home then or not. I don't now, and it makes it difficult to plan for writing when I don't even have a wardrobe to put my clothes in. While I do wish to write and finish my mermaid wip because I believe it's such a cool idea, I don't know if I'll have the peace to write.

I do still write but it's only fanfic because I don't have all my notes for the original stuff since someone took my laptop and I don't like when my notes are in many places. I'd really like to get things in order and write that mermaid pirates wip though.

What can this blog do to help you more?

But!

I'm setting up my queue for my 100+ reblogs in my drafts tonight so my blog will be active even if I'm not.

In other news, my creative writing group is collabing on a story set in Tudor Era England so if you got any resources on writing characters in that time period, it would be much appreciated if you could send them my way.

@bardicfool posted this to my bingo board, and I brought it over here to a new post so we can all talk with my seeing my bingo board over and over again :P

Such a good question! My first experience with urban fantasy was things like Holly Black's faery tales, or Melissa Marr's. Stories where magic can and does happen between the steam and steel of cities, where humans think they're safest.

But I've definitely expanded the term far beyond what I think it's natural borders are, at least when trying to tell people about what sort of books I love. That and "paranormal romance" are my two go tos for "what do you read?" questions, but neither accurately defines my interests. They're just what I'm going to ask for when I go into a bookstore and get lost, more or less.

So let's chat guys. What makes urban fantasy a genre? What are some adjacent genres that would cover things that aren't a catchall term like "new adult fiction" (which I love is a thing btw but like that's SUCH a broad strokes term). Do we call it magical realism, even when the magic becomes more than a little unreal? Do we call it contemporary fiction, even though that barely narrows it down anymore than New Adult does?