Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-68.194.169.97-20160112040149/@comment-24891101-20160112072659

I struggle to think of how one can even have a story without conflict.

Hardship makes the positives all the rarer, all the more precious, all the sweeter. To lack such is unsatisfying. Nights, darkness levels, dawn, and all that.

And the point of a story is to evoke emotions. That some choose to evoke negative or mixed emotions is merely a manifestation of what the author views as poetical, and can and should encompass the whole of human experience.