We know a worn-out story when we see one: tropes become narrative traps and archetypes become stereotypes. But is the story itself worn o...

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 onli...

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 co...

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, o...

What does it mean to dream? Unconscious journeys, waking escapes or a grand vision for the future, a "dream" has a different meaning to e...

We've recently touched on what happens when a character makes a decision that surprises the author. Usually, this inconvenient moment is w...

Holiday Emotion Exercise Ah. the Winter Solstice. The shortest day of the year, closing on the end of the calendar, and the time the worl...

Story Generation was our topic for discussion at The Quill & Pint's November Monthly Creative Writing Workshop at the Burbank Public Libr...

In our run-up to this year's NaNo, we've touched on some of the fundamentals of story telling. The three chief components are character, ...

Last weekend (October 5th) The Quill & Pint held a workshop at the Buena Vista branch of the Burbank Public Library on how to prepare for...

A 2-part exercise. Whether a character is good or bad; Batman or the Joker, Clarice or Hannibal, to keep the audience in the story, the n...

A 2-part exercise. Here are 20 actual loglines from well-known movies, minus the names. You probably know them all, but you're going to c...

We all know the feeling ... you sit down at your desk, a cup of coffee or tea (or something stronger) in hand, and a fresh page in front ...

Each week we feature stories from members of our group based on the weekend meeting's prompt assignment. For this week's assignment, we e...

Each week we feature stories from members of our group based on the weekend meeting's prompt assignment. For our February 16th meeting, w...

Each week we feature stories from members of our group based on the weekend meeting's prompt assignment. For our February 16th meeting, w...

Each week we feature a story written by one of our members in that weekend's meeting. This week, we started with a random prompt generato...

Each week we feature stories from members of our group based on the weekend meeting's prompt assignment. For our January 27th meeting, Ma...

Each week we feature stories from members of our group based on the weekend meeting's prompt assignment. For our January 27th meeting, Ma...

Each week we feature a story written by one or two of our group members at our weekly meetings. For this week's featured stories, we did ...