I haven’t found any exploration stories that don’t have some form of ‘actor versus environment’ that is critical to making the writing engaging to the reader. I’ve also seen plenty of ways to shift the conflict meta, by means of what amounts to a framing device.
I’m excluding descriptive fiction from ‘narrative’; I’m not sure exactly what the boundary is, but describing how something works is different from describing somebody operating it.
I haven’t found any exploration stories that don’t have some form of ‘actor versus environment’ that is critical to making the writing engaging to the reader. I’ve also seen plenty of ways to shift the conflict meta, by means of what amounts to a framing device.
I’m excluding descriptive fiction from ‘narrative’; I’m not sure exactly what the boundary is, but describing how something works is different from describing somebody operating it.