ABSTRACT
A narrative thread is usually defined as a particular storyline either following a character, object, place, or a causal chain of events, over some duration of time. Several narrative threads following a similar trajectory together could then be referred to as a narrative braid, but a large number of narrative threads that crisscross each other, sharing moments in time and spatial locations, could be referred to as a narrative fabric. Since it is the deliberate construction of narrative fabric that concerns this chapter most, the discussion shall be limited to fictional narrative fabrics. The growth of a narrative fabric occurs due an author's interest in expanding it, and sometimes it even expands in directions chosen by the interest shown by fans. In the end, it will be the experience of the world and the new material added to it that will largely determine whether audiences will want a particular narrative fabric to continue growing.
