I wish I could emulate, in writing, the voice of my college playwriting prof, but I can't. I'll do it in person for you sometime, complete with bugging eyes and enthusiastic hand-gestures. But what he always said was that the first thing you had to figure out when you were writing a play was "What's the CAHHHHNflict?"

It's true. It's not so much that I don't want to include plot and conflict as that I have trouble identifying what it is straight off. If I write more anecdotally and just explore my character's conflicts that way, I sometimes get frustrated and stop. If I define it straight off and decide to write *to* that, the writing comes out flat.

I think the first way is better for me, though...