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I’m always awful when it comes to an #introduction, but let’s give this a go.
Hi! I’m Monday (though you can find me elsewhere as LoneMonday or variations thereupon). I’m a writer hoping to become an author and I’m studying a Ba of #Counselling. I mainly write #fantasy of the urban variety, and at the moment I’m working on a an urban fantasy #crime novel. I’d like to say it’s going well, but it’s mainly just going! If I’m not writing, I can be found doing #FiberArts & drinking tea. Or #reading.
@Monday what IS urban fantasy? I thought one of mine was that at one stage - cos it was fantasy and, well, urban, but it turned out not to be ANYTHING like other urban fantasy, so I gave up on the whole categorisation thing altogether. Is it paranormal? I can only vaguely conceive what paranormal even is to be honest. I think it's because I'm kind of old.
@paranoiapen according to goodreads: “Urban fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy in which the narrative uses supernatural elements in a 19th-century to 21st-century (or equivalent) urban society.”
You’ve got me questioning now 
@Monday my book has that, but when I looked at urban fantasy, they all seemed to be paranormal, as in vampires/zombies/shifters kind of thing, and had romance - generally human falls in love with paranormal creature, and chosen ones and saving the world. I got discouraged.
@paranoiapen I promise there’s a big difference between urban fantasy and paranormal romance, but the % of crossover between the two seems to be quite high. Urban fantasy doesn’t at all have to have those paranormal romance elements!
@Monday it's cool. My regular fantasy books don't seem to be anything like anyone else's regular fantasy books either.
@paranoiapen definitely not a bad thing!