I beg to disagree. My latest posted story is a puff piece--a throwaway fic without a plot. It was just a little Christmassy nonsense. <shrug> I've written two or three little comedic vignettes that are the same way. (My FK beta reader has the last one in the Hunter trilogy, and they *are* little throwaways.)

Laura (who needs to go back and finish the next chapter of Upwards a Downward Spiral so she can go on to Innocence Lost)

“Rules only make sense if they are both kept and broken. Breaking the rule is one way of observing it.”
--Thomas Moore

"Keep an open mind, I always say. Drives sensible people mad, I know, but what did we ever get from sensible people? Not poetry or art or music, that's for sure."
--Charles de Lint, Someplace to Be Flying