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    Featured Story, Week of February 12, 2022: The Extra Pastry
    The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
    • Mar 1
    • 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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    Enriching Your Story's Universe - A Writing Exercise
    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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    A Quirky Title Prompt Exercise
    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 Countdown to New Years
    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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    Humor II: The Tension Breaker
    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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    Character History: The Pivotal Moment
    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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    Building a Worthy Opponent
    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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    Absurdity. (Or how to infuse humor into otherwise humor-light times)
    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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    Food fight
    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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    A Sporting Chance
    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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    Variations on a Theme
    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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    Follow the Map!
    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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    Locked down no more...
    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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    Break the Pattern
    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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    Focused on a Dream
    The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
    • Jan 18, 2020
    • 1 min

    Focused on a Dream

    What does it mean to dream? Unconscious journeys, waking escapes or a grand vision for the future, a "dream" has a different meaning to...
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    Against Their Better Judgment
    The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
    • Jan 4, 2020
    • 2 min

    Against Their Better Judgment

    We've recently touched on what happens when a character makes a decision that surprises the author. Usually, this inconvenient moment is...
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    Showing the Feelings
    The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
    • Dec 28, 2019
    • 2 min

    Showing the Feelings

    Holiday Emotion Exercise Ah. the Winter Solstice. The shortest day of the year, closing on the end of the calendar, and the time the...
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    Getting The Story Going
    The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
    • Dec 14, 2019
    • 1 min

    Getting The Story Going

    Story Generation was our topic for discussion at The Quill & Pint's November Monthly Creative Writing Workshop at the Burbank Public...
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    Building the Scene
    The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
    • Oct 19, 2019
    • 3 min

    Building the Scene

    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,...
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    Prepping for National Novel Writing Month
    The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
    • Oct 11, 2019
    • 2 min

    Prepping for National Novel Writing Month

    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...
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