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I was playing Yakuza Kiwami 2 tonight, and I happened upon a certain sidequest. Anyone familiar with the game probably knows exactly what I'm talking about. For those who don't...well, I'll let the game speak for itself: And because I'm apparently a glutton for mental torture, what are some of...

If it makes the story better, do it. If you're just shoehorning it in because you like the trope, don't.

I can't, but I'm friends with a veterinarian...

Replace "vampire" with "fae" and you've pretty much got it, right down to glorifying toxic and abusive relationships.

She is to fantasy what Stephanie Meyer was to romance.

Fifteen years of writing and more than a dozen books, and nobody even knows who I am. Meanwhile, Sarah J Maas continues to be a colossal bestseller.

I come up with an ability I want the character to have, and then work backwards from there. What kind of power would give them that ability? What other abilities would that power give them? What abilities do I not want them to have, and why don't they have them? In Juryokine, that went like...

That reminds me of when The Ring first came out and all my friends were talking about how it was about a movie that would kill you if you watched it. My spazzy adhd-riddled ten year old brain interpreted that as "If you watch The Ring you'll die," and I spent a very confused couple of weeks...

I'm pretty sure all of us have been traumatized by a movie at least once in our lives. Which death scene(s) scared the crap out of you? For me, I've always had a thing about people being turned into inanimate objects. Winterbolt being turned into a tree in Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July...

I'm listening to Mike Brooks' Warhammer 40k Ork trilogy on audiobook, and it's freaking hilarious. It makes me want to write a story about a bunch of insane, single digit IQ warmongers whose only ambition is to murder every living thing they see and somehow manage to do so despite having the...

Adam Bolander/ThisAdamGuy Henry Rider: Clown Hunter Henry Rider and the NuYu Prescription Skinwalkers Skinwalkers: Distant Thunder Juryokine Juryokine: Exile of Heroes The Gray Ranger: Unforgiven The Slayer and the Sphinx The Protector and the Peacemaker Staying Human Amber Silverblood...

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Present tense narration. It adds literally nothing to a story. I'm not saying a good story can't be told with it, but any story that's good in present tense would equally as good or better in past tense. As it is, it's used almost exclusively by pretentious "I am not a mere author like you, I am...

I've always liked the idea of battle royales and gladiator arenas being treated like extreme sports, but the problem has always been figuring out how to get the characters (including the contestants) to treat it that way instead of a horrific crime against humanity like The Hunger Games.

I'm thinking, everyone was turned into some slightly off-brand (and legally distinct) fantasy/scifi race, giant crystals appear everywhere that are each "owned" by one of those races, when you die you get reincarnated at your race's closest crystal, and if enough of your race can swarm another...

One day, everyone wakes up and realizes the world has been irreversibly changed and we have no choice but to adapt to it or die. Little do we know (or maybe we do) that this is because Earth and all of its inhabitants have been chosen as the latest contestants on some kind of intergalactic game...

I've thought about it, but I'm lazy. In fact, the only reason Bolander Books ever got made was because I was young, energetic, and full of hope for the future ten years ago. If you asked me to do it today, I'd probably just moan weakly and go back to bed.

You could just use Wix like me. You'll have to use a weird domain name like "bolanderbooks.wixsite.com/bolander-books" unless you're willing to pay extra for it, but it's still free. And it's actually really easy. I know exactly jack squat about coding and web development, but managed to put...

In addition to posting my stories on sites like Scribble Hub, for the past ten years or so I've had my own personal website called Bolander Books, and....nobody ever uses it. I keep it running purely for sentimental reasons. Yeah, I get (slightly) more attention on other sites, but I have to...

It's neither romance nor a harem, but Henry spends a few chapters as a centaur in Henry Rider and the NuYu Prescription. (also, Henry is a girl)