Filling the Plot Hole of Despair
As writers, we've all done it: created a cool story, had fun doing it, gave it a satisfying ending, then shared it so others could join on t
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Erik Day
- Jul 6
- 3 min
The Writer's Toolkit: Dialogue
Two characters talking bridges the gap between showing and telling: they're literally telling each other that something happened. You, the w
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Bryan Mahoney
- Jun 21
- 4 min
Fear and Loathing in New Projects
How to get through the six sides of fear
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Erik Day
- Jun 14
- 4 min
Interval Training... on a Keyboard
Sounds odd to have a blog post on writing titled with something usually associated with athletic conditioning, but this is one of those situ
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Bryan Mahoney
- May 24
- 3 min
Choose your words carefully
The best advice I ever got about my writing was also, on its face, pretty dumb. I was fortunate enough to have a colleague who was also...
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Marcy Dewey Mahoney
- May 17
- 1 min
Thoughts on Publishing, A Year Later
It's my week to write a blog post here on the Quill & Pint, and though I did write a fresh new blog post this week, it was for my author...
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Erik Day
- May 12
- 2 min
Sabotage: An Inside Job
There a million stories, from real-life to fictional interpretations, of the act of sabotage. Breaking something on the sly.
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Erik Day
- Apr 12
- 4 min
Soundtrack to a Scene: my misadventures in writing to music
The hero slides along the wall, leaving a streak of blood from his wounds. His heartbeat pounds in his ears, drowning out his shallow...
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Marcy Dewey Mahoney
- Mar 22
- 5 min
Overcoming the Fear of Putting Your Work Out There
We all have our irrational fears – clowns, alien abductions, zombies, the three little circles formed by the lenses of an iPhone (also...
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Bryan Mahoney
- Feb 22
- 2 min
A Font-ing We Will Go
That screaming you heard last month originating from the Toluca Lake/Burbank area was just me. It sounded like this: “Caliiibriiiii...
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Marcy Dewey Mahoney
- Feb 15
- 3 min
Incorporating Play Can Be Good For Your Writing
The Quill & Pint’s Saturday Creative Writing Workshops are designed to help you pull the roughest of stories out of your brain from an...
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Erik Day
- Feb 8
- 3 min
Separating Genius from Inspiration
I'm writing a story. Maybe you are, too. Something sparked that story: an idea or a conversation in your head. Perhaps it was the look of...
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Bryan Mahoney
- Jan 25
- 3 min
AI and the future of writing
By the time you read this post, it will be woefully outdated. That’s the speed at which things change in the world of Artificial...
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Marcy Dewey Mahoney
- Jan 18
- 3 min
Finding a Path Through Creative Overwhelm When Starting a Writing Project
How to map path through creative overwhelm and get writing.
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Erik Day
- Jan 11
- 2 min
Everything That Can Go Wrong, Will (Make Your Story Better)
A quick show of hands: how many people bit their lip today? Or maybe the inside of their cheek? Okay, how many of you bit it again...
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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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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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