"create the narrative" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to describe the act of constructing a story or a set of connected ideas. For example: "We worked together to create the narrative for the marketing campaign."
Theatre director Ella Hickson then helped create the narrative.
When done well, it lets the eye create the narrative; people teach themselves, rather than being told.
"It's part of the idea to create the narrative that those sites, no matter what the political solution," are "part of the Israeli identity".
"When we start to work on a drink, we first create the narrative," says Tony Conigliaro of 69 Colebrooke Row in north London.
Within the loose contours of tribal competition on "Survivor" or sexual come-ons on "Temptation Island," the contestants are free to do as they please -- in effect, to create the narrative as they go.
After the crash of 2008, ignorance among the general public, reticence among complicit mainstream politicians and a deeply skewed and sensationalist portrayal of finance in the mass media conspired to create the narrative that the crash was caused by greed or by some other character flaw in individual bankers: psychopathy, gambling addiction or cocaine use.
If you don't have basic self-awareness of purpose, it is difficult to know how to productively create the narratives and practices that will work.
"The media have created the narrative that Jeremy was pushing for this," one source said.
Making each episode combines the pleasures of creating the narrative "but also creating a piece of music," she said.
The repressed power of this identity creates the narrative undercurrent of C. J. Sansom's new political thriller, "Winter in Madrid".
These publications developed new ways of laying out and presenting stories, creating the narrative not with slabs of text but with photographs, captions and short pieces of text.
