I want to write a book that illustrates the similarities between God’s relationship to His creation and an author’s relationship to his story.

Some things I want to include are:

In the plot of the author’s composition, characters have free will and are regarded as responsible for what they do, yet the author is supreme over everything that happens. The author’s art is better when a character’s choices remain consistent with his character. So the author’s art is not simply choosing what happens next. It also consists of crafting the characters and putting them in the right situations. That way, the things they do from their character will fit together and build the desired flow of events, the plot.

Characters in this story will say, think and do many things that people in this world have done in the past and commonly do today. For example, some will debate whether the author exists. Some will try to interact with the author in ways not suggested by, nor even pleasing to, their true author. Others will be aware of past true interactions with the author, and try to tell others about them. But the way these characters share these truths will be flawed, ignorant of the author’s true intent. Different groups of characters will slack on different things in different ways. Yet these errors will work to bring about the author’s intent.

Other characters, ignorant of or disbelieving the accounts of interactions with the author, will insist that they understand the way things work. Some will study regularities in the world they live in, and insist that those regularities explain everything that happens. To keep it consistent with our world, the first characters to study regularities (science) will be ones who see in the recorded interactions with the author that he is responsible for maintaining the existence of the plot. From that, they infer that there must be characteristics of the plot that remain consistent, and pursue understanding those.

(Originally written as a note on May 23, 2018)