Memory Book/Fractal Confusion (Kevin Breeman): Difference between revisions

I'll just describe how I've gone about writing my sims here.  I'm sure others have used similar methods for writing though perhaps under different names.  Presently my sims are part of a sort of architecture, with the real world at the top (on the left) and the simming world at the bottom.  The intermediate layer is the set of narrative voices that allows the reader to peer into the sim world.

Some have noted that this architecture is constrictive.  However, I would like to point out that any sim can be viewed in this way.  A sim is a narrative text.  As such, it is a text in which a narrative agent tells a story (Bal, Mieke. Narratology. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2009. p. 15).  One may conveniently conceptualize the narrative agent him/her/itself as being an individual who occupies a reality dubbed the narrative voice layer.  This reality itself may or may not be a part of the Star Trek universe, but it is one in which it is by necessity possible to possess an intimate knowledge of the Star Trek universe.