For some time now, my old friend Bob Franson has been asking me to organize my thoughts about gaming as narrative into an essay. I finally had a short break in my workload over the past two weeks, and I took advantage of the time to do so. He's posted it at his Web site,
http://www.troynovant.com/ . If you're curious, you can find it there by clicking on "Essays" and looking for "Participatory Fiction." Most of you have heard most of it from me here already, but this is a chance to see the whole idea set out fair and square with no contradictions (or so I like to hope).
Bill Stoddard