Does God Edit Our Lives?
The author as God is a frequent meme among writers.
We create characters, think them up and breathe life into them. If we do a good job, they please readers.
I was writing on page 300-something of my new thriller yesterday (The Nassau Directives. Out this fall) and needed the main protagonist to take an action that was almost, but not quite, totally within the set of capabilities the reader would expect.
So, I went back to page 20-something and began to add some relatively minor abilities that were totally within the overall personality we had come to expect. I continued to build on these in subtle ways as I combed through the manuscript, making my way back up to the “present.”
In a Pirendello-esque sort of way, my character had his memory altered.
I wonder whether God does that with people. Could we be works in progress by the Great Author who occasionally needs to alter our past memories so we can remember how to accomplish something in the present?
As weird as it sounds, there are concepts in quantum physics that could accommodate that.
My strange thought for this Saturday.
