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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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    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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    The Compelling Exercise
    The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
    • Oct 2, 2019
    • 2 min

    The Compelling Exercise

    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...
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    Reverse Logline Exercise
    The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
    • Sep 20, 2019
    • 3 min

    Reverse Logline Exercise

    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...
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    Getting Past The Blank Page
    The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
    • Sep 2, 2019
    • 3 min

    Getting Past The Blank Page

    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...
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    Your Creative Vote
    The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
    • Dec 17, 2018
    • 3 min

    Your Creative Vote

    By Erik Day Margin Notes is a creative aside from the Quill and Pint group. Writing-related thoughts, editorials and observations are...
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    Our Reasons for Writing
    The Quill And Pint Writers' Group
    • May 19, 2018
    • 2 min

    Our Reasons for Writing

    On April 21 we got into one of the more in-depth discussions about writing we’ve ever had. Here’s a brief section of that conversation...
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