AI is here to to stay. But most authors don't know how AI can be a help to their creativity.
Many authors believe the hype that AI is will replace them. This isn't true. Creators will always create, because what we do matters.
That's why LegendFiction focuses on writing as a meaningfull, timeless skill honed by real humans. Since the day AI landed, I've been exploring, testing, and practicing with these tools, so that I can teach and encourage responsible use of AI as a creative ally.
AI helps with feedback and ideation. It can generate concept art for your worlds. It can create concept soundtracks for your novels. For the first time ever, budget-strapped authors can welcome readers into their worlds like never before.
Creators don't fear anything. We are free to use tools as we decide, apart from the hype and slogans of social media and the news cycles.
Dominic de Souza
Founder
What's your position on AI?
AI can be a collaborative and creative partner. AI can amplify how artists create. Artists are the best people to use AI.
AI is like having a full creative team in your pocket, your own personal Weta Workshop—ready to help you dream bigger, go deeper, and create faster. We encourage authors to use AI to design character art, map locations, build mood boards, outline plots, and get instant feedback on your ideas.
In LegendFiction, we don’t promote using AI to write our stories. Our community's goal is to train and practice in the discipline of story writing. AI should not replace the core craft of your own creativity. How much you use is up to you.
Not all our members agree that AI is helpful. We don't look down on each other for the tools we use to create. Each member will use it as they see best.
Let AI do what you can’t (like eliminate tedium), so you can do what only you can.
What's your position on Artists?
We are a fiction writing community, not an artistic community. Some of our members are artists, and we celebrate that. We encourage our members to collab with them, or hire them, if it fits their interest or project goals.
Most authors cannot hire an artist to create the concept art and cover design of their dreams. Generative art can be a huge help for small creators. Larger companies should always prioritize real artists.
Human-crafted art is always superior (in principle) to generated art. In practice, artists can't demand attention, especially early on in their journey.
LegendFiction encourages artists to create boldly and frequently, and not to see AI as competition. It is another tool available to us all. Artists will be the ones who can use it best. Our artist members may or may not choose to use AI in their workflow, and that's up to them.
Note: The mere fact of being a human artist does not entitle you to attention or work. Artists have to inspire and earn their audience an their clients, just like everyone else.
Why do you say AI art is good?
We can copyright an output, not a style.
Through their talent and skill, artists of all kinds have pioeneered methods of communication. Writing, carving, painting, and any form of art, is a method of communication.
These can be 'passed' to a machine, to allow someone without that skill to being to communice as well.
Naturally, someone commissioning a machine is like an Art Director, not an artist. But it is still a valid collaboration, helpful for the bottom of the market where real artists cannot be afforded.
We all can't wait for the the stupid use of generative AI art, where people deliberately try to profit off of copyrighted IP, or the unending slopshipping, to be cleared out of the culture.
Good people with good ideas to share are sidelined, shut down, and ignored. They have stories, proposals, projects they've mulled on for years. But they have been hamstrung from age, trauma, life conditions, and endless reasons.
I accept that how AI was scraped and handled was done badly, but we can't put that genie back in the bottle. It's here to stay, like it or not. Now it's about what you do with it.
Do you train on my data?
No, we never train on anything that you upload, post, or share. The GPTs that we create and share are provided through OpenAI as a resource to everyone with a paid ChatGPT membership.
Concept Music Albums
Concept Album
I Meant to Write to Today
An album of 12 hilarious and heartfelt songs, created with Suno. Go on an adventure into the mind of an author, both ridiculous and reverent at the same time, such as "Off with the Fellowship Losing My Mind" and "Talking to the Furnitue Again," then "Seeing Stone" and "Ink Runs Gold."
Original lyrics by Dominic de Souza ideas set to fast-paced crooners or ballads.
Concept Album
Age of Legends
Sometimes, one track becomes the one. The one that unlocks your world like a hidden door. The one that floods your chest with that breathless, wordless something.
‘Age of Legends’ is a special gift only for LegendFiction members. 33 moody, whimsical, scorecore collection of drums, horns, and epic strings created with Suno. This is what some authors crave: soundtracks without boundaries.
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