Oh, no worries! I didn't feel like you were criticising it or anything. :-) It isn't like that for me, though I do like to know the fandom well before I start. But if a character, a setting is calling to me, making me feel there are things there I'd like to explore, then sometimes I'll do it. Do you mean that when you write fic, then the story is set as going that particular way in your mind? I mean that you wouldn't, for example, write several possible ways for two characters to get together? Because I don't mind trying out possible different ways for the same thing to happen. I guess I'm just about exploring the characters in many possible ways.

I think I've only visited the nice ones when in Central Europe; I guess that's where the tourist guides will point you. :-D We have them in a few Finnish cities as well, but they're not quite similar, though they're also nice.