E.J. Cordoue
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The New Roads Ahead
Greetings, travelers. It’s been some time since the last Creator’s Desk, and quite a bit has changed both on and off the page. Welcome to Tales of Atherra Perhaps the biggest change of all is one many of you have already noticed. After years beneath the banner of Tales of Varestal, the project has officially… Continue reading
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Writers Forge – Why Your Characters Should Scare You Sometimes
I think one of the biggest signs that a story is starting to become real is when your characters stop feeling safe to you. Not evil. Not edgy. Not a kind of “look how dark this is.” I mean genuinely unpredictable, to the readers and even yourself. The kind of character that says something and… Continue reading
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Writer’s Forge – The Scenes Between the Battles
Most people remember the battles. They remember the kings screaming commands from horseback. The betrayals. The final stands. The sword through the chest. The line that changes everything. But the scenes that matter most to me have always happened after the fighting stops. The quiet conversations. The moments where characters sit in silence because they… Continue reading
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Worldbuilding Wednesday – The Feast of Masks
There is one night in Varestal where nobles fear honesty more than any kind of assassination. One night where kings will hide their faces.Where enemies must dance together.Where betrayal can happen inches from a smile and no one remembers your name by the morning. The Feast of Masks. A celebration older than the modern kingdom… Continue reading
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Worldbuilding Wednesday — The Cost of Silence
There are wars in Atherra that never get written down. Not because they weren’t important…but because no one really wanted them to be remembered. In the Kingdom of Varestal, history isn’t just recorded, it’s curated. Every banner you see in the halls of Dravengarde, every name etched into stone, every tale passed down through noble… Continue reading
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Writer’s Forge — When the Story Starts Watching You Back
There’s a point in writing where things stop feeling controlled. Not like messy in a bad kinda way.Definitely not lost. Just… a bit different. Like the story isn’t sitting in your hands anymore.Like it’s almost standing across from you. I’ve been feeling that a lot recently working on The Heretic’s Gospel. At first, it was… Continue reading
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Creator’s Desk — When Everything Feels Unsteady
There are weeks where everything moves forward. And then there are weeks like this one. The kind where things shift without warning. Where plans fall apart faster than you can rebuild them. Where you find yourself sitting in the quiet, trying to figure out what comes next… and realizing you don’t have a clear answer… Continue reading
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The Fall of the Duke – Final Chapters Incoming
I’m gonna be real with you all for a second. My posting schedule for The Fall of the Duke has been… terrible, to say the least. No real excuses, I re-dropped the first few chapters, then completely lost consistency. Life got in the way, I got in my own head a bit, and the story… Continue reading