Igenlode Wordsmith

Well, I do aim for professional quality because that's what I read most of the time (I think a lot of fanfiction suffers from being writen by people who only ever read other fanfictions), and so that's my level of normality, as it were. And I think I achieve it in terms of basic sentence structure etc. at least. Very few of the books to which I would give bad reviews have anything *like* the level of error that is rife in fanfiction; writing non-awkward sentences, punctuating properly, and proofreading to the level of a handful of slips per book constitute a baseline requirement in the outside world, rather than awards of outstanding achievement. Their flaws are on the next layer up, and are not errors so much as choices that as the reader I found unsatisfying. And I'm far from immune to that.

it doesn't have "wallows" of any kind, lacks obsession with melodramatically intense emotions, has good descriptions of settings and surroundings, doesn't overfocus disproportionately on only one or few characters and relationships, doesn't neglect plot out of preference for writing about the feelings

I think it pretty much unquestionably does all these things: how many stories have I written that *don't* focus on Raoul and/or his relationship with Christine, don't feature him experiencing melodramatically intense emotions (let's face it, Leroux-Raoul and LND-Raoul are both canonically overwrought!), and don't spend more time exploring the feelings of the characters than in much action actually happening? So presumably the implication of what you're saying is that I do all these things *well*, such that the reader isn't left uncomfortably conscious of it...