This is more out of curiosity than anything else. Do other authors heavily plan their work before starting? I do not. I tend to let my fingers dance over the keyboard while my mind wanders, usually with assorted music going in the background, and words happen. I learned from the boiling crucible that is NaNoWriMo that writing time is writing time, and editing time comes afterwards.

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Reading back over my chapters, I notice I'm not big on scenery. Besides extremely basic layouts, I tend to go right into the words and actions. The protagonists could be having their conflicts in a perfectly white space without much being lost most of the time. I don't engage the senses besides obvious actions. No dripping water or soft echoing steps, odd smells, or anything like that.

Is this a bad habit? Does it decrease your enjoyment of the story?

Ah, pure love.

How to handle it tactfully? I come from a less than pure background. There's always that little urge to get 'down to business' when dealing with such subjects, but that can lead to things going way too fast in addition to blowing your rating out of the water. I've seen one guy do a side story for such raunchy distractions, making sure to put nothing in them central to the plot of the main story.

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It's time for me to prattle on a bit, since I haven't yet done so on this site.

I'm hard at work on A Dangerous Sparkle an done thing floats in my head. When I'm reading other people's fanfics, I admit to being turned off more than once when the character shows some 'ultimate power' within them, if only they knew! I feel it cheapens the struggle. People should prevail because they keep working, and stick together. Friendship is magic, and that's all the crazy magic we need.

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