The phrase "narrative progress" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the development or advancement of a story or plot in literature, film, or other narrative forms.
Example: "The narrative progress of the novel kept readers engaged as the characters faced increasingly complex challenges."
Alternatives: "story development" or "plot advancement."
There is no conventional narrative progress towards the killer's capture - no accumulation of clues, cat-and-mouse mind games, fatal overreaching etc.
As the video installation breaks the original film up into four-minute loops shown on two dozen monitors, however, the stately narrative progress is replaced by distracting fragmentation.
To call this a book of ideas is to dodge the fact that it is not truly a book of narrative progress, drama, change, conflict or insight.
The novel, however, as I understood the form (this was only my second), demands a kind of swelling narrative progress grounded in causality that ultimately offers a clear design.
At the same time, the poet, a careful and skillful craftsman, consciously applies the principles of Latin rhetoric to achieve a clarity and orderly narrative progress that is quite unlike the confusion and circumlocution of the native English style.
Specifically, they brought to mind his narrative "Progress of Love" panels at the Frick Collection, but with their vistas of billowing trees and clouds, and their vignettes of amorous pursuit and encounter, blown -- ecstatically, furiously and repeatedly -- to smithereens.
As the narrative progresses, the focus of "Family Matters" shifts from Nariman to Yezad.
At first she seems almost a caricature but as her narrative progresses she becomes the most complex of the women.
As the narrative progresses, the men widen their legs, jostling one another in territorial competition, male bonding or both.
He simply wanted people.' Will himself has moments of real amorality, although he mellows as the narrative progresses.
When a comedian tells a story, he deliberately sets out to create a certain tension in his listeners, which mounts as the narrative progresses.
