I want to write many specific dialogues between characters, and put them together in a story. I can start by writing short stories, each with a dialogue. I’ll keep a record of references within each dialogue that need to be materialized. For example, some short stories will mention the author once saying something to a certain person. I certainly want to tie those together. I’d also want to catalog the names of characters, and any character development that occurs.

The author will express some private thoughts before and/or after each short story, revealing to the reader, but not immediately to the characters, some of his thoughts about what is happening, from a perspective outside of the plot. Some of these will eventually be revealed to characters within the plot, providing them with clues as to how the author actually relates to their experiences, being outside the plot they live in. Most direct communications with the author should be narrated as if he were inside the plot, though not explicitly saying so, putting clear communication of the message to the characters before teaching metaphysics.

Stories to write:

Discussion of free will vs author’s sovereignty – probably some ways into the series, after several characters have been developed and several dialogues can be referred to

Discussion of methodological naturalism – refer to communication from the author, experiments testing the nature of the world in the story, how those experiments were motivated by understanding what the author does, but joined by characters who wanted grounds to argue that the story is self-existent, who eventually build sufficient social clout to press soft members of the author-lovers group to invent a way to conduct studies as if there was no author

To refer to – communications with the author in which he explains that he has created all characters and everything around them; if they trace the causes of everything they encounter back as far as they can, it will culminate in him; he gives some moral instructions

Wild idea – the author reveals that he is the work of another author. This author, in turn, is the work of the author of everything. This will be responded to by a character scoffing and concluding that there is an infinite regress of authors. He’ll then write a story of his own in which a character writes a story of a character writing a story, and on and on. He observes that everything in the story he is directly writing stops until he stops extending the regress at a finite number of levels and continues other things in the stories. He sees that the authors he has written about are limited in their power to the power he has to write of them and through them. The author which his author points to as self-existent is outside of any time and plot, composing not only what his author is writing but also many other parts of his author’s life, and many other characters in parallel.

(Originally written as a note on May 28, 2018)