The phrase "an original narrative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a story or account that is unique and not derived from existing works.
Example: "The author presented an original narrative that captivated readers with its fresh perspective on historical events."
Alternatives: "a unique story" or "a fresh account".
Understanding that Robin Hood lacked a single origin story, she decided to create an original narrative that depicted how "seven very different people from a rigidly stratified social structure came to join together to fight the inequities of medieval England".
The key is to offer engaging gameplay, an original narrative, and avoid repetitive characters, levels, and controls.
Such transmedia approach enables a continuity of use around content with adapted design and to immerse the user in an original narrative universe.
The film was the company's first to feature an original narrative.
The characters themselves do not give much help as to where readers should pay attention, as they are too often engaged in long, didactic conversations about Eastern parables and "storyless stories" and the seeming impossibility of creating a truly original narrative from a finite number of building blocks.
Next came the breakthrough — a startlingly original narrative voice that not only severed Conrad's fiction from realism but questioned the idea of a consensual "reality".
This gripping story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942 has a highly original narrative, in which the author seems to share with the reader his cogitations on what to include in the story.
As such, a filmic adaptation of a novel is both a compression of the original narrative storyline and a visual reinvention of a literary tale.
Or could this extended goodwill, and an obvious softening of the original narrative, be a ruse to introduce the 2002 riots to popular cinema without earning the fatal wrath of Mr. Modi, who is being hailed as the new Hindu Hriday Samrat (Emperor of Hindu Hearts), after the death of Bal Thackeray?
Small quibbles: the story-within-a story Matilda tells her librarian (a hearty Cle Morgan) distracts a little from Dahl's original narrative and Miss Trunchbull, while an awe-inspiring mix of bulldog and camp, could do with being as scary as she is in the book.
The best examples of this kind of creative work are often marked by a reframing of the original narrative, and so produce a fresh perspective on both the source material and the context in which it first existed.
