Stories are Survival. The War for Meaning is On: Authors, Grab Your Novels.
LegendFiction: A Haven for Authors Stuck Between Worlds, with a Crisis of Meaning going on, and an urgent need for Moral Imagination and the Mythic Sense. (You'll need coffee for this. It's worth it.)
You feel it too, right? That ache for meaning in a world gone hollow. That sense that writing stories isn't just something we do for fun—it’s something we need to survive. This video is a rallying cry for every author who's ever felt too much, not enough, or like their creativity didn’t fit the mold.
If you’re tired of communities that cage your creativity or trash your dreams, you’re not broken—you might be the kind of dangerous the world needs.
At LegendFiction, we’re building a wayfarer’s inn for the misfits, the mythmakers, and the meaning-hunters. A haven for storytellers who know life isn’t a game of vibes and virtue-signaling—it’s a quest for truth, grit, beauty, and the adventure of getting it almost right.
We’re here to lift you up, hand you a cup of coffee, and tell you that the raw, luminous, messy thing you’re writing matters. If you believe meaning isn’t dead, that stories can save lives, and that your fire was given to you for a reason—then pull up a chair.
You might be a legend too.
We're going to explore three major themes:
The Crisis of Meaning — a hunger for deeper purpose in a world that feels hollow.
Moral Imagination — how stories shape life, not just entertain, and why creativity aligns with the pursuit of good.
A Mythic Sense of Reality — understanding life through ancient, universal stories and symbols.
Hi, I'm Dominic, founder of a writing community called LegendFiction, a haven for authors to get more writing done, and have more fun.
LegendFiction exists to rebuild meaning through myth, story, and community. In a world that numbs and isolates, we believe storytelling is how souls stay alive. Here, writers don’t just craft fiction — we forge worlds where imagination, hope, and friendship still matter.
Let's get into it.
For The Authors Who See More
There’s a certain kind of writer who lives in the margins—the ones who are too gritty for the glitterati, too comical for the cynics. too deep to stay distracted. You’re not trying to be edgy just because its cool. You’re trying to be honest. You’re not here to be perfect—you’re here to explore, to experiment, to figure things out.
You have this itch deep down that meaning matters, that virtue-flexing isn't the same as the adventure of seeking a good life, that great stories and human connection calls us to get deeper and level up.
A lot of life feels like a sandbox without rules. But you and me, we can't accept that 'nothing matters, anything goes, create any truth that feels good for a Tuesday.' No. Life is too hard to not take an honest look at ourselves, get help to become better humans, build real lasting friendships, and find ways as author to share and dig into the raw, strange, luminous things you love.
Maybe you’re using tools people don’t understand. Maybe your process is messy. Maybe your stories don’t fit into clean boxes. And every time you try to connect, it feels like you’re too much—or not enough.
So I been building something different.
A haven with a group of friends. It's like a wayfarers inn, where you can show up with your epic story ideas, and we'll pass you a bowl of soup and a blanket. A place to catch your breath. To rest. To meet a few fellow travelers. And to never fear that the group will turn on you like wolves and savage your suggestions.
Let's get back to why you started writing in the first place—because it meant something. Because you mean something.
When Getting It Right Becomes a Cage
Online communities love rules. At first, things seem helpful—boundaries, guidance, shared values. But too often, they calcify. “Helpful” becomes hostile. Advice becomes attack. And the pressure to be pure, consistent, or correct becomes a purity spiral that suffocates creativity.
Storytelling doesn’t thrive in cages. Life is a mix of clarity and chaos. Some things are obviously right or wrong. Most things… are not.
And creative people live in those shadowlands, where nuance and exploration are not just welcome, but necessary.
Some communities out there have no boundaries at all. They're like the 'everything goes' crowd, and the only thing they can't tolerate is intolerance. Well, I see it differently. Tolerance and accompaniment are different things. Tolerance means I put up with you, because I have to, and we'll never truly connect. Accompaniment shares the journey and shares the load, and if anything I've learned can be helpful to you, we can talk about that—because we're trying to connect as friends.
So if you’ve ever been punished for challenging the status quo, or cast out for not being clean-cut enough, this haven is for you. We’re not here to demand dogma. We don't punch people into party lines. And we also don't let anyone do that either.
We’re here to learn the craft of storytelling, and to share our stories.
To more deeply get into the grit, grace, grimdark, and glory of the human condition.
1: The Meaning Crisis Matters
The modern world is starving for meaning.
We were taught the universe is empty, that dead matter is all there is, and that 'purpose' is an irrelevant illusion. But that just rankles wrong deep in us. You don't even have to be religious to think that. Most of us out here just don’t buy it anymore. We feel that it’s false.
There’s a quiet rebellion rising: a return to meaning. A re-enchantment of reality. More accurately: a return to realizing reality was always enchanted, and we lost that.
Purpose can be discerned and discovered. We have to live lives that mean something, that has meaning in it. If you can't discover it, you can make it until it becomes obvious to you. Meaning gives purpose and direction and focus to your life, and to your sacrifices. Just like your characters.
Life isn’t random. Sacrifice is worth something. That there’s a point to the struggle. And if you can’t see the meaning yet? That’s okay. Sometimes, you have to write it into existence. Sometimes, you create meaning in the very act of searching for it.
Maybe we're not surrounded by an infinite desert of dead stuff, in an empty lonely universe. Maybe there's more here than we think. Maybe we're not as alone as we think we are and if things mean something, maybe we just don't know enough yet.
And in the end, meaning is what makes your stories matter. When we fix what's between our ears and in our hearts, then we can start to do something.
And that's why we have a moral imagination.
2: Moral Imagination
If meaning is real, then our imagination isn’t just indulgent—it can be significant. It’s moral. Because what we imagine shapes what we do, what we become. What's in our heart has to be lived out in habits, in the ways that we do things.
We have to have a moral imagination, meaning that what we dream of doing and how we plan to do it has to align with the meaning that orients are lives (to the best we can).
There's good ways and there's wrong ways to do things. There's easy ways and there's better ways. Nobody can sit and judge your intentions like an all-knowing God. We let him handle that.
We can accompany each other. We can help each other to think different or make better choices. And sometimes, we can just be a holding hand to help somebody get through a tough time and maybe share the meaning that moves our lives. Share an insight we've earned. Sometimes, that’s all someone needs to take the next right step in their writing—and in life.
Imagination is how we field-test our ideas. It’s how we walk into the unknown. It’s how we break old habits, confront our biases, and imagine better futures. And it can be fun. Storytelling is an essential way humans grow, and share experiences.
Because we believe in a world of meaning, our imagination and takes its life and it's inspiration from things that have meaning that we discover. We can find new and better ways to do things and through our fiction.
We field test characters who reject the pull in their hearts to find a right way to do things versus an easy way. And that's why we can sit with and celebrate the angst and struggle of anti-heroes, and the grimdark cautionary tales.
We understand that morality changes from time and place. But underneath shifting morals is something solid, almost scientific and spiritual. We seek a real relationship and openness to truth.
Also called, myth.
3: A Mythic Sense of Reality
Myth isn’t just metaphor. It woven into the fabric of who we are. We’re not just telling tales for funsies. We’re participating in something ancient. Archetypes. Symbols. Patterns of transformation. They’re not made up. They’re the deep language of the soul.
Carl Jung called it the collective unconscious, and archetypes. Jordan Peterson mapped it to stories and Scriptures. Myth is how we discover that we are not the first to fall and rise again.
You don’t need to worship gods or slay dragons to live mythically. You just need to wake up to the truth that stories have shaped you before you ever knew how to write one. You are already inside a myth. Your job is to learn to understand it.
We are immersed in an ocean of meaning and of imagination, that came before us, that informs us. We exist within tribes and countries, the identity of our people acts in us and inform us like mythic beings.
Mythology is not merely an account of our origins. It's also a daily charting of your everyday reality. The reality of your soul and your spirit, your psyche, your internal life, your instincts.
These are things that we share across time and across millions of lives.
Universal truths are mythic realities. They're bigger than us. They drive us. And they are very, very real even though we don't pay attention to them.
They are revealed to us through stories. All the meaning in the universe is expressed through our moral imagination. And it's lived out through the great stories that return again and again into our psyche and into our culture that we want to tell and hear and love again and again.
4: You Are Not Alone
It's these stories that make sense of everything. They are what give rise to demigods and dragons, hobbits and wizards, spacecraft and epic wars, cozy getaways, and the deep, playful joy of crafting and wielding imagination.
If you’ve ever felt this inside you—whole worlds without end wrapped up in a human person—that’s actually incredible.
It’s probable that nobody around you fully understands. And yet, maybe we do. Maybe, if we gather together in this haven, we can keep crafting our legends side by side.
Even if we come from different religious backgrounds—or no religion at all—if this message resonates with you, then maybe you belong here.
I want to encourage you. I'd love to meet you in the comments, hear about what you’re going through, or invite you to hang out in my online community called LegendFiction.
It’s just $10 a month, and honestly, it’s the kind of place where I love spending my time: hanging out with people like you, encouraging you to tell the story that matters most to you.
We’re standing at a hinge point in history, a time when creators are finally reclaiming the ability to honor and own their own voices. We are realizing something powerful: we are smarter and better together.
Finally, we are finding each other—and discovering that we’re all hungry for the same thing. We’re all burning and bursting with the same creative fire. Sometimes, what we need most is a few friends who remind us that it’s not crazy to care so deeply. That it’s good to keep creating even when it feels like nobody understands.
This community was founded mostly by Catholics and Christians, but it’s not about preaching or pushing an agenda. We won’t ask you to make decisions or take sides. We simply want to hear your story—because we genuinely, deeply love stories.
We don’t believe fiction should be used to push buttons, sell agendas, or manipulate emotions. We believe that fiction stands complete and powerful on its own, because storytelling is an essential part of being human.
Stories are how we survive
Meaning matters. In a world that has convinced itself it is dead and purposeless, we see the skyrocketing rates of self-harm and despair that prove human thriving cannot survive without meaning.
We must return to a sense of meaning if we hope to have a future at all—and if we want to know how to properly use the tools we create.
Any tool that removes or numbs our ability to experience real life is probably not a good tool. You—and your creativity—are a central part of why it is good for you to be here, now, in this time. I don’t know who you are yet. But I know we need you. We need every single person who dares to believe that storytelling still matters.
You are absolutely needed. You are absolutely wanted.
I can't promise that I'll have all the answers. But I can promise that I'll do my best to simply listen, to sit with you, and to encourage you. Maybe together, we can find the next good step—or the next right step—for how to keep bringing your characters to life. How to keep midwifing the muse inside you. How to keep creating the best possible good that you can offer to the world.
How can we rewild the magic of writing and have fun doing it? We're not trying to write classics. We're not trying to write bestsellers. Those could be fun and good, but that’s not the goal. We're not writing for the choir or just for our local tribe.
No, we're writing because we love something. We’re writing because it lights a fire inside us and we want to have a bunch of fun doing it.
And maybe—just maybe—we’re being pulled toward something meaningful, something bigger than we understand yet. Maybe all our creativity is a warm-up act to figure out what that is.
Master your writing output. Meet other people from all kinds of different backgrounds who love the same wild, meaningful things you do.
Because meaning matters.
There are billions of people who need fresh stories to make sense of everything—to make sense of the world, their lives, their struggles, and their hopes. Maybe your story will be absolutely vital for one person out there. And maybe your story is absolutely vital for you.
Even if nobody else reads it, you matter. Your creativity matters. Creativity is an essentially healing thing. It’s a vital part of being human. That’s why you, yes you, have it.
That’s why you should pursue it.
TL:DR; A Haven of Friends and Storytellers
Maybe doing it with friends in a friendly haven will help you enjoy the journey. We've got each other's backs. Imagine a community that actually lifts each other up—where we promise, no matter what we each think, never to savage each other or tear each other down. We build each other up.
I mentioned that we're founded by Catholic Christians, but even we don’t all agree on everything. Some of us are Orthodox, Protestant, Deconstructing—like me—and all of us share a common passion: we want to write.
LegendFiction is the writing community for dreamers, nerds, and believers who know stories still matter. But it’s not about just writing more.
It’s about reclaiming a way of living that modern life is killing.
We aren’t just giving people writing prompts and anthologies.
We’re fighting for something way deeper:
Meaning isn’t optional — it’s survival.
Moral imagination isn’t fluff — it’s the foundation for real freedom and future flourishing.
Myth isn’t escapism — it’s the ancient paths humans used to navigate life, before we buried ourselves in cynicism and distraction.
LegendFiction exists because the modern world is burning out creators…
Flooding them with noise, loneliness, nihilism, cynicism, and shallow thinking.
We’re offering a place where we remember that stories matter. That community matters. That building something beautiful together isn’t naïve — it’s how we save ourselves.
This isn’t just a writing club. We’re building an Ark —an ark for moral imagination, for hope, for meaning, for creative growth.
And we’re gathering nerds, dreamers, and believers before the flood of cheap entertainment drowns everything that matters.
LegendFiction pushes back on creative loneliness, moral erosion, and the starvation of myth from modern souls.
Humans must make meaning to survive. When meaning collapses, cynicism, apathy, and worse, take over. We are fighting that collapse with story, friendship, and purposeful creation.
LegendFiction is an act of creative rebellion against meaninglessness. We return to fiction, myth, and community as the tools to rebuild human hearts.
And… because it’s fun for worlds without end.
If that sounds like you, then you’re already a legend—and I can't wait to meet you.
Check us out at LegendFiction.com
Hope to see you there!