Foster said, "The great challenge was to find a beautiful idea to pull through it, a narrative line that would make the story work."

His horoscopes tend to have a narrative line, a beginning, middle and an end.

The narrative line will no doubt be tighter, more focused.

Maybe not, but it's surely no accident that the best story has a strong narrative line.

Whether it's a novel or play, for me the trick is always to find the narrative line.

It's still finding the narrative line required to keep the momentum building.

"The narrative line of the story remains the same," he said.

Give her a straight narrative line and she could pound it out.

There is still much to be said for the discipline of the clear narrative line.

In fiction I could have answered these questions, taken a confident narrative line.