Julie’s gotten involved in a discussion of whether conflict is required in a story. The guy she’s talking with seems to think of conflict as overt physical action (so far as I can tell from the excerpt Julie posted). The majority of books I read would contain conflict under that definition; but then, what about, say, Jane Austen? Pride and Prejudice contains all kinds of conflict, starting with the clash between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy; but it isn’t physical.

Anyway, go take a look.