The phrase "a private narrative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a personal story or account that is not intended for public sharing, often reflecting individual experiences or thoughts.
Example: "In her memoir, she shares a private narrative that reveals her struggles and triumphs throughout her life."
Alternatives: "a personal story" or "an intimate account".
Like sculptors, they patiently hew and shape their music, often following a private narrative arc from piece to piece.
The story takes this all-encompassing public narrative, which seemed to leave room for little else in 2016, and weaves into it a private narrative — Min's memories of an encounter with an older man when she was a teen-ager in Beijing, and this man's attempts to establish some kind of communication with Min now.
While we are accustomed to more public accounts of Obama's attempts to help his mother sort through labyrinthine health insurance claims, this private narrative is new.
Yet despite the inscrutability of her private narrative, the operatic vernacular energy of her work communicates in an almost metaphysical sense that the viewer is free to use the work to remember their own stories; there's plenty of room in her deliberate and esoteric pictorials for everyone's consciousness to take root.
I never thought art could be a viable career option so I decided to start drawing with a needle and thread as a way to explore and create my own private narratives".
The challenge in entwining public and private narratives is that the former is an egotist: it demands to be fully engaged with, and if it's not the center of a piece of work it deems the work irrelevant.
Stubborn, plaintive, locked in their private narratives of bewilderment and self-justification, they are simultaneously exasperating and winning.
To pay close attention to private narratives when there appears to be little space left is to me a way to not succumb to this time of ours.
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Sometimes the story is evident, and sometimes they are private narratives that turn into coded abstractions.
