Fantastically Ordinary

Great Write is purely a matter of opinion, and I know that what peaks my interest will be an absolute bore to others, so.. With that said, here's my two cents.

Great writing to me is something I can relate to, I can feel- something that feels enough like home to speak to me, but enough like the unknown to keep me reading.

For this reason, I enjoy stories of ordinary people thrown into fictional situations. A regular guy at school thrown into a dimension of dragons and knights. A girl working at a café suddenly finding herself in the middle of an intergalactic war.

The fantastical being coped with by the ordinary. I can feel for these characters as the boy tries to learn to wield a sword without a Youtube tutorial or the girl comes to terms with all of the new technology and alien creatures around her.

Or even, supernatural things entirely but dealing with ordinary problems. A goblin who deals with depression. An extra-terrestrial space princess who has insecurities.

Being able to see the characters in books who were like me then thrown into this world of fiction, gives me the sense of anyone having the possibility to find that fantastical journey. Maybe I could find myself in another dimension like that. If I did, what would I do?

Seeing other worldly characters facing the same problems I do makes me feel like I'm not alone in my problems. If a cyborg worries about conforming to society, maybe it's not bad that I do, too.

If there is no semblance of something I can feel for or relate to, I probably won't like the story as much. It won't speak to me, and I won't listen as well.