Of course RP in general is much more then these narratives, it is how you play your characters, the language they use in messages to the realm and the like. At least in the realms I play in this has moved away from the old "modern" chat that we once had, inter spaced with RP marked message to an environment where each missive actually feels like it was considered from a characters point of view.
That kind of thing, I think, does much more for providing a good RP environment than anything else and is one of the more important things to me. I give it my best to always keep this kind of thing up. I fail from time to time due to being in a hurry, etc. but it definitely something that separates realms in my eyes.
