You have that whenever you tell a story relating a series of events of incidents,you are using narration. There are two types of narration. One is designed merely to report and the other to make a point.To write a good narrative essay, you need to provide concrete and specific details organized in a chronological order.You also need to select whether to write from a first person point of view or from a third person point of view.The former makes you become a partcipant in the story while the latter makes you just an observer.In addition, you need to use consistent tenses along with some transition or adverbial clauses of time to make your essay coherent.