February with The Quill & Pint
Howdy Writers! Here's what's on deck from The Quill & Pint for February 2023! WORKSHOPS Our upcoming Saturday Creative Writing Workshops...
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Bryan Mahoney
- Jan 25
- 3 min
AI and the future of writing
By the time you read this post, it will be woefully outdated. That’s the speed at which things change in the world of Artificial...
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Marcy Dewey Mahoney
- Jan 18
- 3 min
Finding a Path Through Creative Overwhelm When Starting a Writing Project
How to map path through creative overwhelm and get writing.
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Erik Day
- Jan 11
- 2 min
Everything That Can Go Wrong, Will (Make Your Story Better)
A quick show of hands: how many people bit their lip today? Or maybe the inside of their cheek? Okay, how many of you bit it again...
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The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
- Jan 4
- 2 min
New Year, New Approach, New Writing Goals
Greetings from Quill & Pint Central! We’ve been busy giving our website a little bit of a glow-up, and we’re ready to share some of our...
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The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
- Sep 16, 2022
- 1 min
Q&P National Novel Writing Month Events
Who's ready to tackle National Novel Writing Month? The Quill & Pint is teaming up with the Burbank Public Library to bring you six...
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The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
- Mar 1, 2022
- 3 min
Featured Story, Week of February 12, 2022: The Extra Pastry
For our February 12th Creative Writing Workshop, our prompt was to write a story about, rebelling or breaking a rule. This wonderful...
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The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
- Sep 8, 2021
- 2 min
Enriching Your Story's Universe - A Writing Exercise
In our August 28th workshop, Erik presented us with a fantastic writing exercise to help enrich your story's world and characters. This...
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The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
- May 12, 2021
- 1 min
A Quirky Title Prompt Exercise
For our April 10th workshop, we embarked on creating a story from three lists - a title, a character description, and a story...
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The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
- Dec 19, 2020
- 2 min
The Countdown to New Years
As 2020 comes to a close, the Quill and Pint wants you to picture the final moments of the year and turn that into a scene. A little like...
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The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
- Nov 22, 2020
- 3 min
Humor II: The Tension Breaker
This exercise is based on a request to explore how a writer can use incidental humor in the course of a narrative. For part one, check...
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The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
- Nov 22, 2020
- 2 min
Character History: The Pivotal Moment
This is a deep dive into character construction. Written as a stand-alone exercise, and conducted as the 11/14/2020 writers' workshop,...
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The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
- Nov 22, 2020
- 5 min
Building a Worthy Opponent
This is another deep dive into character construction, with an emphasis on the story's antagonist. Written as a stand-alone exercise, it...
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The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
- Sep 14, 2020
- 1 min
Absurdity. (Or how to infuse humor into otherwise humor-light times)
For an absurd amount of time, we left the word Absurdity up on the screen at this week's writers' group. Perhaps we were making a...
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The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
- Aug 29, 2020
- 1 min
Food fight
This week's writing prompt is inspired by group member Laura M., who suggested we try writing about food. Describing a meal can open a...
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The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
- Jul 26, 2020
- 1 min
A Sporting Chance
Sports stadium Pandemic Now Is The Time Interpret those however they hit you. Is this the here-and-now; live sports in the time of a...
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The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
- May 9, 2020
- 2 min
Variations on a Theme
We know a worn-out story when we see one: tropes become narrative traps and archetypes become stereotypes. But is the story itself worn...
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The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
- Apr 25, 2020
- 1 min
Follow the Map!
Thanks everyone who joined today's online writers group! We had a lot of fun with this one! During quarantine we'll continue to host...
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The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
- Apr 11, 2020
- 1 min
Locked down no more...
Workshop Exercise: April 11, 2020 Journal Entry 43,297: Lockdown, day 907. All of my pens have run out of ink. All my paper is now the...
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The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
- Feb 15, 2020
- 2 min
Break the Pattern
Establishing a Cycle – and Blowing It Up Real life, or at least most of it, is a series of patterns. Those patterns define our reality,...
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