User blog comment:Varkanax39/Unsurprising News.../@comment-2215631-20140311112817

I was disheartened when I saw that you were being demoted, but seeing you actually resign is, well, heartbreaking.

You were the writer when I joined CBW during the summer of 2010. You were the one who began the FttD craze that lasted for a year or more. You were the one who inspired me to keep on writing. This is the single greatest piece of advice anyone has ever given me in regards to writing:

''Advice? Well, this is like trying to summarize a few books of writing techniques in a few paragraphs, but I'll try my best. Mainly, practice. Practice writing of all types, including descriptive writing. The best stories are the ones that pull you right in with an excellent beginning and never let up until the danger is over. So a strong beginning is very important, as is maintaining an even, steady pace throughout the story. By this I don't mean slow-paced. Even the most faced paced stories should always maintain an even pace.

The characters are the most important part of the story. Their actions define what course the story will take, and how they act and react to certain situations is extremely important. I always try to make sure what my character does is something that the character would do (there's an excellent example of this later in TSC, but I don't want to spoil it for you). You should always try to flesh out your characters as much as possible, Shardak, Blast, and Valkyria have distinct personalities all of their own, and I feel now that I know the characters quite well.

Lastly, the battle scenes. I'm sure I should mention this, (I have yet to read a BIONICLE story where not one person is attacked, not a weapon is drawn, etc,..). Slice mentions some very good tips here for writing fight scenes that you should read.

Just a few more things: Don't try to stretch your chapters. The prologue to An Age of War is about a thousand words, and from what I've seen of your other works, it probably won't be a novel unless the chapters are stretched. Even TSC and DR (Which are short novels, 70,000 and 80,000 words, respectively), are only as long as they need to be, no longer.

As my final piece of advice, I'd like to say that the more stories you've written, you'll find the more detailed and interesting your chapters get, and you'll also get better by simply practicing writing then asking me or Slice for tips. If you compare my old story, Dissolution (Which you can read on my canceled stories page) or TEG to ITD or TSC, you'll see how much longer my chapters became, and how much more detailed the characters are, and the better the pacing is. A lot of my writing skill I picked up over time, and you're already quite a bit better at writing then I was when I first joined CBW.

Wow, that was longer then I thought it would be. I hope it helped, if you need anything more, just ask.''

I'm happy to call you one of my friends. This is the most saddening leave of absence yet for me, but I understand.

Best of luck, &mdash; Logan Woerner   (Blog)