Yes, it does help, thank you. I've been having this sort of low-grade panic over what I've been writing. I realized I wanted to do certain scenes because of my prompts, but other than that there was no character development or conflict and resolution or any real point to it.

Have spent past half hour reading about how to write short stories on fictionwriting.about.com. It's actually been fairly interesting, especially some of the writing exercises they list.

Will have to spend some time thinking about conflict. Reminds me of a quote from Vonnegut about writing. He said, "Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of." Something I shall endeavor to do more of in the future.