Haha, it's a consistent problem I have when I'm writing anything even a bit racy. All of a sudden everything's three-syllable words and more adjectives then a decent person needs and everything gets super melodramatic.

Which I'm not saying is a bad way to write! I quite like some big florid showy prose sometimes! But it's hard to have that going and then strike literally any other tone during any part of the fic. So especially for the things I'm writing now, there's a couple of scenes where I want to strike a lighter/more casual tone and I want to make sure that the prose doesn't get so overwrought that it doesn't sound like it's coming from the same person anymore.

Also, I kind of feel like elaborate or dramatic prose is a bit more dependent on the reader's taste then simple prose is? A word that's perfectly descriptive and evocative for me or another reader will be a word that someone else finds silly and mood-breaking. But that's not based on anything besides my own observations, and I mean things being taste-dependent is true of everything so there's not really any getting around that.