Erik Day 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...
Erik Day 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 w...
Erik Day 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, it...
Erik Day 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 ou...
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 recursi...
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 lo...
The Quill And Pint Writers' Group Jul 27, 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 pand...
Erik Day 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 o...
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 onli...
Erik Day 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 co...