
Demiurge -- Noun: one that is an autonomous creative force or decisive power. As a writer, you get to be the demiurge, having control over the fate of each and every character and the universe in which they reside.
Did You Know? In the Platonic school of philosophy, the Demiurge is a deity who fashions the physical world in the light of eternal ideas. In the Timaeus, Plato credits Demiurge with taking preexisting materials of chaos and arranging them in accordance with the models of eternal forms. Nowadays the word demiurge can refer to the individual or group chiefly responsible for a creative idea, as in "the demiurge behind the new hit TV show." Demiurge derives via Late Latin from the Greek demiourgos, meaning "artisan" or "one with special skill." The demi- part of the word comes from the Greek noun demos, meaning "people"; the second part comes from the word for worker, ergon.
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