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| | |I wrote this sim in response to recent issues surrounding the matter of my [[Memory Book Team/Fractal Confusion (Kevin Breeman)#2010-05-21 - A Crisis of Voice?|lacking a consistent narrative voice]]. I also intended it to address claims that a multi-layered text in which a narrator identifies herself and delineates herself from the reality in which the story takes place takes away from the enjoyment of the fictional reality presented in the given post. | ||
The Raven, a trickster character from native american mythology, offers a playful take on the creative process. Kevin Breeman's conception of him is of a trickster who allows his own ego to be dissolved for the sake of deepening his creative activities. He becomes not only the individual or entity he is creating but also the narrator of that person's story. He can tell that person's story because <i>he is that person</i> for a time. | |||
I have noticed in the past that simmers will often discuss one another's work as a product not of some writer in RL but rather as a product of the character himself. For example, "Good job, Lt. Jim on that last post!" Lt. Jim himself might actually be the work of an accountant named Fred Harrowitz, but the congratulations are addressed to Jim rather than Harrowitz. In a sense, Harrowitz has imitated Breeman's raven by becoming Lt. Jim and other simmers have facilitated this transition by critiquing his work as though it were composed by the fictional Lt. Jim. | I have noticed in the past that simmers will often discuss one another's work as a product not of some writer in RL but rather as a product of the character himself. For example, "Good job, Lt. Jim on that last post!" Lt. Jim himself might actually be the work of an accountant named Fred Harrowitz, but the congratulations are addressed to Jim rather than Harrowitz. In a sense, Harrowitz has imitated Breeman's raven by becoming Lt. Jim and other simmers have facilitated this transition by critiquing his work as though it were composed by the fictional Lt. Jim. | ||