What is "narrative structures"

Usage examples of "narrative structures".

At our weekly workshops, selected writers display, on an overhead projector, their developing narrative structures, then face the usual critique of their writing, design, development of character, emotional impact, attention to detail and so on, as appropriate.

I will never know, but I'd give three-to-one odds that Captain Mullan was one of those people gifted with the capacity to dream in long, coherent narrative structures.