I give a rating 99.9% of the time. The only time I haven't is when I've used a writing prompt from all_unwritten and it's not something huge and spectacular. But I always make ratings for regular stories, so that shouldn't be a promblem. And anyway, this one is actually going to be het. SHOCK! ;)
I'm going to start getting it down on paper today.....hopefully. lol

And thank you so much for answering my questions. It definitely helped.