Tip-Top Writing Tips

I am sleepy and hankering to post in this'ere fine forum but when it comes to Grand Battles: A post needs to be a story in of itself. It needs exposition, rising tension, then a resolution and finally a hook for someone else if you're feeling generous. It's not really enough for it to just be a narration - a segment of the Grand Battle's story.

Of course, a meandering tangent that doesn't advance the round or battle's plot's no good either, but a compromise needs to be struck. If you devote your post to telling the Grand Battle's story, it comes out a sterile commentary. It's relying on external forces (read: other writers) to give it context. Not only that, it's not as nice to read as a post that's a story in of itself - kind of like reading one paragraph in a book, instead of a chapter. Or something. I'm tired; bugger off.