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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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