Am I allowed to think in my mind that I am a god? Are writers gods? We create worlds and characters and we destroy them, in the same way the ancient Greek civilization believed that everything they did was controlled by the gods. Sometimes my characters have a mind of their own and despite my plotting and planning they do something different to what I want them to do. I could easily rein them in but sometimes it is interesting to let them go their own way to see what develops. If I don’t like it I can either divert them back to where I want them to go, or I can delete an entire sequence of time and make my characters do what I want. Who can deny that this is the kind of power a god might have?
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