The phrase "rough story" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe a narrative that is based on factual events, but told in a way that has been simplified or generalized. For example: "The news report told a rough story, summarizing the incident with little detail."
This is the rough story of the film, told in microcosm.
The important thing is that citizens should be able tell a rough story about how the system works.
In Sergio Gonzales-Tornero's "Sioux Pictograph," white symbols tell a rough story on a bright red ground.
Progress has been very slow: Mr Rogoff has a short essay on the failure of empirical exchange rate models here.Despite this, most economists carry around a rough story about the benefits of a floating exchange rate.
But he told The Fort Worth Star-Telegram the case of the pardoned police officer who stole cocaine had slowed his consideration of clemency requests "because it was a pretty rough story".
It is a rough story that takes place in a rough neighborhood, centering on a deadly competition between two men, one German, one Turk, for the love of a beautiful Turkish woman.
One of the hard-learnt lessons from the liberation of German concentration camps after World War II was the importance of collecting even rough stories, information, and testimonies from survivors, as soon as possible after camps were liberated.
Rough Crustice (story claiming a supermarket refused to sell bread to a 10-year-old boy).
The murder would have prompted a long running "rough justice" story which would have gripped middle England for months.
Under what amounts to Rwandan occupation, eastern Congo is arguably the most miserable place on earth.A rough neighbourhoodThe story of Congo's war began in 1994, with the genocide in Rwanda, Congo's tiny neighbour.
His early fiction was collected in such volumes as The Deadly Streets (1958), Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation (1961), Rough Beasts: Seventeen Stories Written Before I Got Up to Speed (2012), Getting in the Wind: More Stories by a Very Young Harlan Ellison (2012), and Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word (2013).
