Novelism. I think it’s a great name for my view of knowledge and free will. My experience is that I write a chapter of my story and submit it to the editor, God, or what some might prefer to call the “universe.” I get back an edited version, my life, that resembles my intentions when I wrote the chapter but is very different.

Life feels as though it is happening to me, and other times the uncertainty is satisfying but terrifying. But almost always there is direction and collaboration. The stoics call it prohairesis. I chose but much is chosen.