Thoughts on Writing

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...

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...

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...

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...

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By the time you read this post, it will be woefully outdated.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...

Finding a Path Through Creative Overwhelm When Starting a Writing Project

How to map path through creative overwhelm and get writing.

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...

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...

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...