Is Death a Big Part of a Good Narrative?

A good narrative needs to have high stakes, and it needs to be about life and death. I guess that's a theme that runs through most all my books. And the truth is, you know, like a storyr in which everybody's happy and everything goes well and there is no adversity and no one dies, is rarely a good story.

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