Anyone writing Urban Fantasy?

More or less. ^_^() Mine has a bit of the cliché of there being the "real world" and a "fantasy world" but a lot (if not most of it) is planned to take place within the "real world."

I am a fan of the concept of urban fantasy, though. Although I must admit to probably not having read nearly enough of it.

I am! Mine is actually even set in a world post-nuclear war.

What can I say? I like snow.

Yes! The plotline is one where a key past event changed, making it an alternate universe, but the action takes place a few years from now. But still, vamps, demons and cell phones... I think that makes it urban :D

I am.

Werewolf romance/adventure set in present day Boston.

My story is in a fantasy world, but it's very much about cities and technology more than anything.

Yes, I'm writing a modern day fantasy, set in cities and towns in the UK. Most of life will be utterly normal, with the sham mediums and stupid 'Ghost Watch' television programmes we all know and love, but there'll also be the 'real fantasy' element, witches and magickians who achieve their aims through magick; supernatural beings who walk among us, working in cafe by day, meeting others to pursue their own spiritual aims by night; that sort of thing.

Irregulars is going to be an Urban Fantasy, amusingly enough also a Werewolf/Romance. Nice to see I'm not alone in my proclivities :)

My story (already 4300 words into it) is urban fantasy :)

Called "Digital Watches", it's about a small group of people fighting against the forces trying to bring magic into the world.

I'm sort of writing an urban fantasy. Basically, the bigger more prosperous cities are really modern while the smaller, poorer towns will have more of a medieval setting. I'm going to have my novel start out in a smaller town and then move to one of the biggest and most modern cities, which will hopefully lead to stressing out my characters who have never been to the larger cities. My setting was pretty much inspired by Final Fantasy, because I always thought it was cool how well those games combined Sci-Fi and Fantasy together.

I'm writing urban fantasy. =] Sort of, anyway. More specifically, the main character gets taken to a place in the middle of the Australian outback, which is controlled by a sort of supernatural force, or at least it seems like that. She's an unreliable narrator, so, idk. *shrugs*

Kind of. :) It takes it's location in the place called Wintermorning, where is (surprisingly) always winter and morning, but the thing is that actually the time is something like the 80's. Fascinating.

Mine takes place in a modern city in the middle of a Wasteland- supposedly sometime in the future, or maybe some alternate world. Who knows? The reason would become a plot device eventually, I guess... I've got vampires and werewolves and harpies and things in here.

i think mine could turn out to be an urban fantasy. possibly. at the moment it seems to be wanting to go in several directions, but an urban fantasy is the main one!

I am. My main character is changeling from the "ghost world" between life and death; and all the magical stuff is in that world. She's stuck on Earth, and is being raised as a normal teenager, but as things start to go awry, the ghost world and our world begin to meld together.

That's the idea so far anyway, it's bound to change XD

Mine is definitely urban. It would probably count as cyberpunk :X

Yup. I can't stand medieval fantasy.

Mine's about a girl who discovers a different world, and she starts paying frequent visits there, although I think most of the story will take place in the real world. But that's just one half of the plot. The other half is about her twin brother, and he doesn't venture into the other world at all ^^; So, yeah.

Mine's modern day with fantastic/paranormal elements, but not specifically urban... it's going to be set mostly in a car on a roadtrip, with stops in different places along the way.

I think it'll be tricky using real places I haven't been in awhile. See my other posting in Fantasy... I want them to visit New Orleans, but I myself haven't been there since long before Katrina, so what I write might seem ridiculous to people who have.

Another snag I might have is explaining why the magical/paranormal events happen to the characters. Buffy has a Hellmouth, residents of Newford live in a magical fictional place and have to be awakened to see it is all around them, Sam and Dean seek out demons and ghosts on purpose, why are my poor protagonists beset by ghosts and zombies?

What rationales do you use for magic in the modern world?

Chris

Yep - most definitely. My novel (at the moment -who knows where it will end up?) is set in a small and nonedescript village in the North of England where some very normal people start being able to do some very surprising things while they hunt for a lost friend.

Best of luck to everyone with their writing :)

Cx

[Edit] Erichris - maybe your protagonists have something that the bad guys/monsters want?

I am, I am! I'm writing about a boy who writes a book that begins to come true. But it doesn't exactly follow the story he wrote, so it's going to get tricky.

Here's another one who's writing an Urban Fantasy! It's sort of... Fantastical creatures and the like living in modern times, blending in with the humans. Though the idea of a separate yet connected fantasy-like world keeps nagging my brain. ...Even if it isn't that original. xD

I'm also writing Urban Fantasy. In my setting, a nation of Elves is forced to join the modern world due to their dwindling magical powers. They no longer have much magical power, they don't live as long and they can no longer hide their homeland from the world. Over time they begin to emigrate to other countries in the world, though not all people among either race are happy about the situation.

The story really focuses on a human boy and an elven girl who become next door neighbors in the U.S. They grow up together and eventually become romantically involved and even married, though along the way they deal with quite a bit of adversity and prejudice from both sides.

Yep. 7k into my urban fantasy of the bunch; demons, were-critters, fey and some random dead angels. It takes place in present day Duluth, MN. :P

~Merc

I'm doing urban fantasy as well. Werewolf gang wars in Los Angeles, to be exact, with a hint of not-quite romance. (I'm amused to see that I'm not the only one in werewolf/romance, actually.)

Mine is fairly modern - set in the seventies - and deals with magic - no supernatural beings so far.

Mine is some vague modern town near a forest inhabited by werewolves. Now that I think about it, the only point that makes it obviously modern is the lycanthropy afflicted main character contemplating whether or not he should spam conspiracy sites with werewolf information (or misinformation) for his own amusement and the main character's lover being hopelessly attached to a PDA.

I am! The world in my story is very much like our world, with some significant divergent moments; in 2005, there was a global economic crisis (several civil wars, a dictator in western Europe, and the destruction of the global oil supply) that forced most of the world's civilised nations to band together in a new world-wide socialist democracy. The first book takes place in 2007-2008, and the one I'm writing now takes place in 07-08. There are also mutants in this 'verse (whose existence was revealed to the world at large during the beating deaths of two teenagers in '03) who are a subject of much controversy. There is also magic - and my protagonists are descended from a millennias-old secret society dating back to the destruction of Atlantis. This year's NaNo is the second volume in a trilogy. The story follows the lives of eight kids sent away as toddlers to protect them from an ancient enemy, and of course they grow up without any knowledge of where they truly come from, ranging from the time they're about fourteen into their early twenties, as they find out who they are and what they are and get told they have destinies, getting involved, along the way, with plenty of major world-changing events. It's insanely complicated but thoroughly enjoyable. Except while I'm actually writing. Then I do a lot of shouting. :)

Yes! Urban fantasy is fun.

Mine is the whole vampires/werewolves rehash, but with a bit of fun. Basically everything remotely animate has some part in it. Ever seen a cocker spaniel were-beast wield a whip? and the main point is for everything not human to retake the sewer from the iron-fisted canine weres-beasts. It's urban, in the sense that it happens in a city, and under a city, and I think it's on earth... I really don't know at this part.

I love urban fantasy. Not entirely sure why, but I do. ^_^

My story is an urban (kind of dark) fantasy retelling of sleeping beauty... except instead of a princess who's been locked away in a tower, the MMC was cursed by faeries from the Unseelie court and his body was enchanted to rest at the bottom of a lake. (Thank goodness for astral projection! xD)

Yeah, I think mine is technically Urban Fantasy.

It's set in modern times, except, a few years into the future. The world isn't really that different than now-a-days, though.

I love reading Urban Fantasy so I've decided to give it a try this year. I'm doing a vampire romantic suspense novel taking place in modern-day San Francisco :-)