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You cannot imagine a whole story into existence in an instant. You have to pick your favorite plotlines and characters and put the story together piece by piece. You cannot envision a whole book, every word at once, you can only envision a small piece of it at a time, whether that be the outside of the book or a few words on the page. We cannot do these things today, but with the assistance of an exocortex and AI, or mind uploading and subsequent modification, we may be able to do it in the future.
The thing you have the most dominance over is your own imagination. And even that is limited. The thing you have the second most dominance over is your own creations: You can create anything you can put your mind to. You have absolute and sole control over what goes where, and what becomes what. It's not as responsive as your imagination, though. Not as immediate.
Now imagine a very, very powerful computer with all of humanity mind uploaded to it. And you are the only one with admin privileges. That would be world domination. The role might make it hard for people to relate to you, though. The more domination you have over the world the more like a God you are. And the more like a God you are, the more alone you'll be.