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When Your Imagination Runs Out of Steam, and Your Best Novel Idea Starts Feeling Like A Burden
You Still Believe In The Idea. You’re Tired Of The Process
 • Dominic de Souza
You and Dreaming: Travels through the Frontiers of the Perilous Realm?
Here's why sleep isn’t merely rest, and your dreams are part of your storytelling kit
 • Dominic de Souza
The Perilous Realm & Your Imagination
On Tolkien’s Perilous Realm of Faerie, Corbin’s imaginal world, and why this matters for storytellers.
 • Dominic de Souza
5 Imagination Workouts That Beat Writer’s Block Before It Starts
Ready to build Mental Stamina the Fun Way? Try these Daily Imagination Workouts for Writers & Readers
 • Dominic de Souza
A Wilderness of Dragons: 40 Dragon Sightings, from Quetzalcoatl to St. George: Dragons are older than the Bible, bigger than Tolkien, and…
Plus the Real Reason LegendFiction Uses Dragons Everywhere
 • Dominic de Souza
Exhausted, Doubting, and Still Writing? Here’s the Tiny Trick That Keeps Storytelling Alive.
Some words of encouragement to keep going... something I wish I new five years ago when going through a tough time...
 • Dominic de Souza
Faith, Dragons, and the Secret Fire: Why We Boldly Refuse to Write More Boring Fiction
If you think writing faith-centered fiction means being boring... think again.
 • Dominic de Souza
Seeing the Sacred in Pop Culture? How Avengers, Star Wars, and K-Pop Demon Hunters are seriously awesome soul-food
How one phrase turned my world upside down... and now I can't stop seeing God in everything, especially in fiction.
 • Dominic de Souza
Is Corporate America Killing Fantasy? Hilary Layne on The Hidden Formula That's Been Ruining Fantasy Stories Since the 70s
Here's why Tolkien is not the 'father' of modern fantasy (not the way you think), and why we need to reclaim the genre. Watch this video.
 • Dominic de Souza
Answering the Biggest AI Objections (and Fallacies) Authors Are Falling For
AI vs. Authors: Debunking the Myths, Fallacies, and Fear-Mongering
 • Dominic de Souza
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…
 • Dominic de Souza
Writing a Book Was Hard Enough — Then the Internet Decided You Also Need to Be a Marketing Wizard with Mad Skills
What if you're not crazy, and yes, the system is broken?
 • Dominic de Souza
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