"maintain narrative" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the telling of a continuous story or account. For example, "The author did a good job of maintaining narrative throughout the novel."
Shepard's eagerness to maintain narrative tension leads to occasional artificiality, but her writing is vivid and her meditations on heritage and grief are moving.
So the entire time that we were working on the film, the goal was just to be honest, maintain narrative integrity and push the hell out of every bit of cash and resource we could get our hands on.
In a conventional thriller, the solution would be to maintain narrative tension at all costs, keeping the cross-cutting between past and present rapid and eliminating any detail that might clog the onrush of events.
Nevertheless some deviations from historical fact were made to increase interest, maintain narrative continuity, and for practical or safety reasons.
Rather than asserting authority over her materials, she has a way of letting them speak for themselves, even as she maintains narrative momentum.
She was an expert guide through a score by turns turbulent and reverent, faithfully maintaining narrative threads while deftly illuminating the passions swirling around them.
Planning tailoring options requires instructional expertise on the training efficacy tightly unified with knowledge of the technical capabilities of the system, as well as attention to maintaining narrative coherence and consistency.
The informants kept sadness at bay through: acceptance and re-orientation to their current life situation, maintaining narratives about their identity and belonging, and religiosity.
Also, there is the possibility that, due to their relatively good comprehension for the narrative, Context participants that made the inference were under less cognitive load to maintain the narrative, which gave them the opportunity to explore the screen more.
Critics of the administration, however, saw the YouTube story as part of a broader attempt to maintain the narrative of reduced terrorism threat after bin Laden's death.
Beyond pushing its religious message, the movie is too scatterbrained to maintain much narrative continuity.
