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...

This is another deep dive into character construction, with an emphasis on the story's antagonist. Written as a stand-alone exercise, it w...

This is a deep dive into character construction. Written as a stand-alone exercise, and conducted as the 11/14/2020 writers' workshop, it...

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 ou...

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 recursi...

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 lo...

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 pand...

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...