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<\/a>By A.J. Llewellyn<\/p>\nI am a strong believer in Robert Fulgrum’s The Storyteller’s Creed. It is my mantra. It is my Bible. It is what I write from, what I feel in my heart. It goes like this:<\/p>\n
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.<\/p>\n
That myth is more potent than history.<\/p>\n
I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts.<\/p>\n
That hope always triumphs over experience.<\/p>\n
That laughter is the only cure for grief.<\/p>\n
And I believe that love is stronger than death.<\/p>\n
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Recently though, something happened that seriously challenged line two – that myth is more potent than history. As a romance novelist, and one who delves frequently into the past, I was surprised that I found a fact that was more potent than any<\/em> myth, however, I must admit it was borne of…<\/p>\n myth.<\/p>\n As I was working on my book, Tame 2: Savage<\/em>, the sequel to my best-selling book Tame,<\/em> I once again dipped into the realm of myth and research. Specifically, the Argentine legends of werewolves, which inspired my first book.<\/p>\n I was astonished to find a small, tossed-away face.<\/p>\n In old Argentina, people so feared werewolves that somehow, a legend began that the seventh son on a family–any family–became a werewolf so people began killing their seventh-borh sons as soon as they were born.<\/p>\n To put a stop to this rampant infanticide, the mayor of each town became the godfather to each seventh-born son to each family.<\/p>\n This tradition continues to this day, and, as I learned, many mayors attend the baptisms of their godsons especially around election time!<\/p>\n Isn’t that a fascinating fact?<\/p>\n Of course I used it in my story. I am sure that there are readers who will think I made this up. That it is myth. And that’s fine because in my heart of hearts I do believe that myth is more potent than history.<\/p>\n Just as I believe that love is stronger than death.<\/p>\n What about you? How do you feel about the Storyteller’s Creed and the myth of fact? I really want to know!<\/p>\n Aloha oe,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n AJ<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By A.J. Llewellyn I am a strong believer in Robert Fulgrum’s The Storyteller’s Creed. It is my mantra. It is my Bible. It is what I write from, what I feel in my heart. It goes like this: I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[16,20,222,223,224,225,226],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category-writing-and-poetry","category-latestnews","tag-a-j-llewellyn","tag-amber-allure","tag-argentine-werewolf-legends","tag-tame","tag-tame-2-savage","tag-the-storytellers-creed","tag-werewolves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}