The phrase "attempt at narrative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to create a story or convey a narrative, often in a literary or artistic context.
Example: "Her latest novel is an attempt at narrative that explores the complexities of human relationships."
Alternatives: "effort to tell a story" or "endeavor in storytelling".
The silliness of the floods she unleashes washes away any attempt at narrative completion.
It's the attempt at narrative drama that starts to look like a committee job, and a feeble one at that.
We offer the text of the scenarios that was circulated to the participants as an exhibit to allow the reader of this article to see the actual input into the workshops and experience for him/herself our attempt at narrative plausibility.
Penelope's story is an attempt at narrative justice to retribute Helen for her erroneously idealised image in the Odyssey as the archetypal female.
The company's previous attempts at narrative choreography don't inspire much confidence, but its star does.
Jennings is not an elegant stylist, and if you didn't like "Aztec" you will probably dislike "Spangle" for the same reasons; it's heavy-handed, the eroticism is clumsy and often embarrassing, the dialogue is unconvincing, the violence is gratuitous, and the attempts at narrative excitement tend to be of the old "suddenly a shot rang out" variety.
It was an early attempt at using narrative techniques in my writing.
This will be the choreographer's first attempt at a narrative dance, and the company is going all out; it has commissioned a score by Bryce Dessner and set designs by the Canadian artist Marcel Dzama.
Wayne McGregor in hip collaboration with Mark Ronson and designer Gareth Pugh; the young and very promising Liam Scarlett making his first attempt at a narrative ballet; it's not surprising that hype has been building for weeks over the Royal's latest triple bill.
Mega Man 4 made it into IGN's "Top 100 NES Games" list at number 95, with staff writer Matt Casamassina praising its attempt at better narrative and an essentially similar experience to the first three Mega Man games.
For the first time in Rescued by Rover an attempt at a narrative rather than simple spectacle was made, and was also considered a step forward in both film grammar and structure.
