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When you are writing anything or playing a game, you are narrating.

A narrative is something that has already been narrated. You can no longer add to it by narrating; therefore, you must read it as a narrative.

However, if you write fanfiction, you then become the narrator by continuing the narrative you have read. But, once you have finished narrating, the new work is now also a narrative.

If someone goes through a cybertext, determines a specific path to go through, and then puts it together to be read consecutively, that path is a narrative.

Also, when a narrative is heavily edited or rewritten, it is no longer a narrative in that process, but once the process is finished, it becomes a different narrative.

And... if you film someone playing a game (or record it in some other way), that film becomes a narrative because it can no longer be changed. But the game itself remains a means of narration.


In short, the reason that the meaning of the term "narrative" is so complicated is because a narrative is only a narrative when it is finished.
You cannot write or create a narrative; you can only read a narrative after it has been written or played through and recorded.


ahh... so confusing, but so beautiful.